AI Systems Architect
Engineering Manager + Technical Lead with 8+ years of experience building scalable platforms and high-performing teams. Over the last year, I led a lean engineering team while staying hands-on across AI platform architecture, marketplace monetization, real-time media systems, cloud reliability, and production operations.
Engineering Leadership
My approach to leadership combines deep technical expertise with a focus on people and process. I build high-performing teams that deliver scalable, business-critical systems.
Hands-on Team Leadership
Led a lean engineering team while remaining close to architecture, delivery, reviews, incidents, and hiring. My focus is to create ownership, product thinking, and technical confidence across the team.
Product-Aligned Ownership
Owned engineering direction across AI platform, marketplace, billing, voice/video, and infrastructure work. I translate business goals into pragmatic system decisions and delivery plans.
Platform Architecture
Designed production systems for agent execution, usage metering, developer workflows, real-time communication, retrieval, and observability with security and scale in mind.
Operational Excellence
Improved reliability and unit economics through cloud cost optimization, monitoring, incident response, security hardening, and simpler deployment patterns.
Impact & Achievements
Years Experience
Engineering Teams
Production Services
System Uptime
self-hosted monitoring, not a vendor SLA
Cost Reduction
Architectural Highlights
A selection of complex systems and platforms I've architected and built, focusing on scalability, performance, and AI integration.
AI Agent Marketplace Platform
Architected platform foundations for deploying, integrating, metering, and monetizing AI agents across developer and enterprise workflows.
PayCentral
India's first agentic payment platform — an autonomous payments layer built on Google's AP2 protocol that lets AI agents discover merchants, negotiate checkout, and complete payments through any connected payment MCP, all inside a single conversational interface.
Video Intelligence Pipeline
Built an end-to-end video intelligence pipeline for processing streams from edge devices. Engineered a custom WebRTC platform to deliver ultra-low latency video analytics.
eCommerce Search Engine
Modernized the search infrastructure for GeM (Government e-Marketplace) and Jiomart, handling catalogs of 4M+ items and massive concurrent traffic during peak procurement and sale cycles.
Professional Experience
A snapshot of my engineering journey
Engineering Manager
PhroneticAI- Leading engineering across AI platform, marketplace, billing, voice/video, and infrastructure products.
- Managing a lean team while staying hands-on with architecture, reviews, hiring, and production operations.
- Improved cloud efficiency, realtime usage visibility, platform security, and observability for production AI systems.
Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer
Infibeam Avenues- Promoted from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer over 5.5 years.
- Modernized key services for a large-scale e-commerce platform and built microservices on Kubernetes.
- Designed faceted search with Solr/Elasticsearch for a 4M+ item catalog, cutting response times by 75%.
- Mentored developers and led technical reviews.
Technical Expertise
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What I'm heads-down on right now.
- $Agentic AI core runtime internals
- $Leadership & people-management craft
- $Latency and fault tolerance in distributed systems
- $Connection-aware autoscaler for async Python servers
Traditional autoscaling scales on CPU/memory, but async frameworks like FastAPI bottleneck on open connections first. Building an open-source autoscaler that scales on live connection load instead.
- $Secure sandboxing for multi-tenant Python execution
An open-source sandbox for running untrusted Python code safely in multi-tenant environments.
- $Badminton
- $Chasing new places — globetrotter at heart
- $Real Madrid, through wins and heartbreaks
- $Long drives, no particular destination
- $Debugging — genuinely, even outside work
- $Running 3 aquariums in production — 100% uptime, no on-call needed