AI-first Lead Engineer with 10+ years in backend engineering and cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I build agentic systems and GenAI applications from architecture through production. Co-founded two startups.
Now Lead Engineer at Velotio (an R Systems company), leading a 15-engineer CPQ team.
Lead Engineer at Velotio (an R Systems company) with 10+ years of experience in backend engineering and cloud platforms. I lead a 15-engineer CPQ team building a unified configure-price-quote platform for a global industrial manufacturer, and authored a custom MCP server deployed organization-wide. I led an AI coaching chatbot from architecture to production on LangChain, LangGraph, and Vertex AI, and a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team within Pure Storage's IT GTM organization. Co-founded two startups, including Boltpics, which reached ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years.
Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F), Anthropic
AWS Certified Developer, Amazon Web Services
Experience
Lead Engineer
Velotio (an R Systems company) · Pune
Apr 2021 – Present
Authored a custom MCP server deployed organization-wide
Leading a 15-engineer CPQ (configure-price-quote) team, building a unified CPQ platform for a global industrial manufacturer
Led an AI coaching chatbot from architecture to production using LangChain, LangGraph, and Gemini/Vertex AI: RAG over structured and unstructured data (FAISS, pgvector), Langfuse tracing, and an evaluation regression suite gating deployments on accuracy and latency
Co-Founder & Lead Software Engineer
Boltpics · Pune
Feb 2019 – Apr 2021
Co-founded and led engineering for a smart photo-distribution startup, growing it to ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years
Designed the AWS architecture and facial-recognition pipeline, processing 1M+ images/day
Owned the technology end to end, including infrastructure cost
Co-Founder & Software Engineer
Busflix · Pune
Aug 2016 – Jan 2019
Built software/hardware WiFi infotainment systems for intercity buses: media servers, captive-portal connectivity, and OTA updates
Built the Raspberry Pi software framework and the link from the device fleet to the cloud, in Node.js
Implemented hardware locking, source-code protection, network throttling, and serial and I2C interfaces
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune · 2012 - 2016
The chatbot runs inside Slack, so people get answers where they already work.
RAG over structured and unstructured data with FAISS and pgvector, Langfuse tracing, and an evaluation regression suite that gates every deployment on accuracy and latency. When retrieval finds nothing relevant, the assistant declines instead of guessing.
Retrieval: RAG over structured and unstructured data (FAISS, pgvector)
Quality: Evaluation regression suite gates deployments on accuracy and latency
Observability: Langfuse tracing in production
Engineering Manager for Agents
Open-source Claude Code plugin for hierarchical delegation across a multi-agent fleet, with per-task token and cost budgets.
A supervisor agent plans the work and directs worker agents, each isolated in its own git worktree, and ships through git and the GitHub CLI.
Each task has a token and cost budget that hard-pauses the worker at 100%. JSONL audit logs act as durable agent state, so every run can be inspected after the fact.
Structure: One supervisor directs many workers through a single point of coordination
Budgets: Per-task token and cost budgets hard-pause at 100%
Isolation: Each worker runs in its own git worktree and branch
The supervisor view: per-task status across the fleet, the audit timeline for one task, and its budget.
OffGrid Vision: Local Multimodal CLI
Open-source CLI that runs image analysis on a local Ollama model instead of billed cloud multimodal tokens.
TypeScript
Node.js
Ollama
Multimodal LLMs
Details
No runtime dependencies, and images never leave the machine. Output follows a semver-versioned JSON contract, and the CLI installs as an Agent Skill, so agents can call it as a local vision step.
Cost: Local inference replaces billed multimodal tokens, cutting cost per request
Privacy: Runs fully offline, so images never leave the machine
Integration: Semver-versioned JSON contract; installs as an Agent Skill
A preflight check against the local model, then a screenshot described in 4 ms without leaving the machine.
Screen Booking & Media Asset Management
Lead Engineer, Velotio (an R Systems company)
Led backend engineering for screen-booking and media asset management software used in-house at a major streaming company.
TypeScript
Node.js
AWS
Airtable
Google Calendar API
Details
Built approval workflows and the Google Calendar and Airtable integrations, and owned the product's data pipelines, including their monitoring.
Workflows: Approval workflows for bookings and media assets
Integrations: Google Calendar and Airtable
Ownership: Data pipelines and their monitoring
Cloud Apps & APIs (Pure Storage GTM)
Lead Engineer, Velotio (an R Systems company) · 2021 – 2023
Led a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team within Pure Storage's IT GTM organization.
AWS Step Functions
Lambda
EKS
Kafka
Snowflake
Details
Cloud-native automation used by 5+ teams: event-driven services on AWS, a workflow scheduler on Step Functions, and the analytics path from Kafka into Snowflake.
Team: Led a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team; platform adopted by 5+ teams
Architecture: Event-driven services on AWS, with analytics running Kafka into Snowflake
Digital Evidence Management (iCrimeFighter)
Lead Engineer, Velotio (an R Systems company)
Primary backend developer on a digital evidence management platform for law enforcement agencies.
TypeScript
Node.js
Docker
Serverless Framework
AWS ECS
Angular
Details
Built resumable uploads for large files captured over unreliable field connections, duplicate detection across a case, case workflow tasks, and API integrations with partner evidence platforms.
Storage: Duplicate detection avoids storing the same file twice
Interoperability: Partner API integrations for exchanging evidence
Photo Distribution Platform (Boltpics)
Co-Founder & Lead Software Engineer · 2019 – 2021
Co-founded and led engineering for a smart photo-distribution startup that reached ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years.
Node.js
AngularJS
Firebase
TensorFlow
AWS
Details
Event photographers upload a shoot, and a facial-recognition pipeline sends each attendee only the photos they appear in.
Designed the AWS architecture behind it and owned the infrastructure cost alongside it.
Scale: AWS architecture processing 1M+ images/day
Business: Grew to ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years
Yoga Pose Feedback
Real-time yoga coach that scores how closely you match an instructor's pose, entirely in the browser.
React
Vite
TensorFlow.js
Details
Uses on-device pose estimation with TensorFlow.js MoveNet, so the camera feed never leaves the device.
Built confidence-weighted pose matching that ignores low-certainty joints, an offline pipeline that generates reference poses from instructor video, and a compact binary pose format for fast loads on mobile.
Privacy: Fully client-side, so the camera feed never leaves the device
Accuracy: Confidence-weighted scoring that discounts low-certainty joints
Performance: Custom binary pose format for a fast first load on mobile