Background

Background.

Professional history, education, and the technical scope of my work. A downloadable CV is available when a formal document is useful.

Experience

Professional history.

Production AI, multi-sensor perception, optimization, and technical leadership across 12+ years.

2019 - PresentBengaluru / Tokyo / Pune

Sr. Tech Lead, AI/ML Autonomous Systems · KPIT Technologies

Led AI/ML systems work across perception, in-cabin sensing, and deployment while staying hands-on with architecture, optimization, middleware, and delivery.

  • Led teams of 14-20 engineers across perception and in-cabin AI programs, covering architecture, execution planning, technical reviews, and delivery.
  • Built multi-model, multi-sensor systems spanning camera, LiDAR, radar, pose, gaze, and anticipation components.
  • Optimized and deployed models on constrained platforms using ONNX, TensorRT, quantization, distillation, graph optimization, and inference acceleration.
  • Designed middleware for concurrent perception workloads and tuned a custom CenterNet pipeline to 33 FPS on full-resolution input.

Earlier work

  • Software Engineer · Independent / Freelance Work2017 - 2018 · Bengaluru

    Built product-oriented ML and web systems before moving fully into production AI.

  • Software Engineer · Accenture2014 - 2017 · Bengaluru

    Worked on backend and telecom platforms where automation, migration work, and production correctness mattered.

Background

Education and technical scope.

Education and the technical scope I work across most often.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science
    University of Colorado Boulder
    2024 - Present
  • Executive PG Programme in ML & AI
    IIIT Bangalore
    2022 - 2023
  • B.E. Computer Engineering
    Nagpur University
    2013

Technical scope

Languages

Python, C++, Rust, C

ML / CV

PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, OpenCV, scikit-learn

Deployment

Model optimization, Quantization, Distillation, Graph optimization, Inference profiling, Embedded pipelines

Domains

Perception systems, Autonomous driving, In-cabin sensing, Driver monitoring, Multi-modal pipelines, Technical leadership