Timeline

The path so far.

From a national-level taekwondo black belt in Goa to shipping production voice AI and writing twenty-two research papers on the same systems: one published at ICANN 2026, nine more submitted. Newest first.

2026
  • Brillianse — 13-app academic ops platform, live

    VoiceQube
    Merged 447 of the repo's 2,688 pull requests and wrote more commits than anyone else on the team. Thirteen apps in one monorepo (8 Next.js, 5 Expo), a Hono API with 152 route modules, Postgres with 323 tables. Live for a 12-campus college group: 4,735 students, 137,821 exam submissions, 7.6M answers recorded. Built the admissions CRM with an AI voice agent, and AI grading of handwritten answer sheets. Launched publicly as Brillianse AI by Telangana's IT & Industries Minister in October 2026 (The New Indian Express). Case study.
  • HotelClaw.ai — integration layer of a multi-tenant hotel AI platform

    Side project
    Oracle OPERA exports and an Opera Cloud (OHIP) adapter generalised into one PMS sync runner, with Mews, Cloudbeds and Apaleo adapters on top; LINE and WhatsApp ingestion feeding an LLM intent router that leaves every reply to staff; tenant isolation made a CI check. Case study.
  • Left VoiceQube after three years forward deployed

    VoiceQube
    Three years embedded with US and Indian clients: six client products (Altfolio, Kissan Pride, Finie, Northway Tech, and the sister products Phiny.ai and Crosslane) and three in-house ones (CueKit.ai, Unifund and Brillianse AI).
  • Adaption — AutoScientist winner, now an ambassador

    Community
    Won 1st place ($4,000) in Data & Visualization at Adaption Labs' AutoScientist Challenge, and since September 2026 a volunteer ambassador for the non-profit: running online and offline events, testing new formats and platform features, and turning member feedback into changes. The entry.
  • Co-founded CELABE

    Side project
    Co-founded an AI-powered wedding & events platform. Architected end-to-end across iOS, Android, and web; live on the App Store and Play Store. ML-powered planning, vendor marketplace, viral QR photo-sharing.
  • Twenty-two research papers · one published at ICANN 2026

    Research
    The systems-level work behind the products. Latency Optimization in Production Voice AI Pipelines (−41.8%) is published at ICANN 2026 (peer-reviewed, Springer LNCS, doi:10.1007/978-3-032-38404-1_36). Also under review: Personality & LLM Trust, the SSIM line-art audit, Done Is Not Correct (agentic CAD reliability), TRIBE v2 Predicted-Cortex Features Beat an Unmatched V-JEPA2 Video Baseline for Memorability on VideoMem and Lose on a 499-Clip Memento10k Subset, and two submitted in October 2026 (PacificVis, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics). Full list with DOIs and ORCID on the research page.
  • Certificate of Reviewing

    Service
    Reviewed a manuscript for the European Journal of Computer Sciences and Informatics — contributing to research quality on the other side of the page.
  • Merged PR into everything-claude-code

    Open source
    Contributed to one of the fastest-growing AI repos (236k+ stars, 35k+ forks). Started life as zenith.chat — built with Claude Code in ~8 hours, won 1st place at the Anthropic × Forum Ventures hackathon (NYC, 2025).
  • Shipped SmokeMukti & Oravira to the App Store

    Health tech
    ICMR-funded tobacco cessation app (App Store, 1st & 3rd at AIDEC) plus an oral-health × HIV care-pathway app (App Store).
2025
  • Started research

    Research
    Began formalizing the production work into papers — voice AI latency, intent detection, MCP architecture, LLM optimization, trust in LLMs, and multi-agent drift. The voice AI latency study (−41.8%) was accepted at ICANN 2026 and is now published in the Springer LNCS proceedings.
  • Adopted Claude Code in production

    AI dev
    Wired Claude Code into the team's daily build / test / ship loop; event-driven agent orchestration across the team's repos.
  • Real-time AI avatars

    Built bi-directional voice + video + data avatar experiences with LiveKit + WebRTC.
  • AI for Marketing — BITS Law, Mumbai

    Speaking
    3-hour technical workshop: creative AI tooling, content + distribution automation, zero-code CRM pipelines, hands-on with LLM and image-gen tools.
2024
  • VoiceQube — leading teams, shipping products end-to-end

    Team lead
    Three years leading engineering teams: 30–40 engineers on and off across four product lines, through architecture reviews, code reviews and mentorship, forward deployed with overseas clients.
  • Client AI products, end to end

    FDE
    Shipped Phiny.ai (AI career-prep with real-time voice mock interviews — Pipecat + LiveKit + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram, 516 TS files / ~101k LoC NestJS, ~17k LoC FastAPI), Crosslane (career counselling, 476 TS files / ~107k LoC across 13+ modules), and Northway Tech (AI voice caddie featuring 2× US Open champion Andy North).
  • Real-time backend at 40,000+ locations

    NestJS + AWS architecture with event-driven workflows, MongoDB geospatial indexing, Redis caching, AWS Lambda + MediaConvert media pipelines, CloudFront edge delivery.
  • Co-founded V3NEX, a non-profit

    Side project
    Introduced kids to Generative AI — workshops on text and image generation with local AI models, mentored students through deployed projects. v3nex.vercel.app
2023
  • Joined VoiceQube — Senior Software Engineer, Forward Deployed & Team Lead

    The start of a three-year run shipping production voice AI for US clients, and of leading the teams that built it.
  • Best Outgoing Student

    Award
    Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa. CGPA 9.28.
  • Gold at University Games — Taekwondo

    State level (again).
2022
  • Chairman, C-Codes — INSPIRUS 2K21

    Organised a two-day national tech event with 300+ participants and three sponsors (Kilowott, OneShield Software, FIIRE).
  • Royal Finance — Slovakia

    React frontend revamp + admin panel for a Slovakian fintech startup (royaltyfinance.cz).
  • Smart India Hackathon — Grand Finale

    Built Coco.
  • Techgium by L&T — Grand Finale

    Built ParkMe.
  • Pai Kane Group — ServeME

    A React Native app and admin website for the group; full one-life-cycle internship project.
  • Kusol Labs — internship

    Built a web app with React, Material UI, MongoDB. Learnt scrum and agile.
  • Sessions on React & React Native

    Walked first- and second-year students through React, then a follow-up on building chatbots with Dialogflow + React Native.
2021
  • Started exploring AI / ML

    Joy of Computing Using Python (IIT Madras), Machine Learning for Trading specialization (Google Cloud × NYIF).
  • Web dev at scale

    Shipped multiple full-stack projects across React, Node, MongoDB. Found my voice in TypeScript.

For the deeper version — the actual systems, papers, and live apps — see /projects or grab a slot via Calendly.