Engineering Director & hands-on applied AI builder
Production AI/ML systems · React Native · Python/TypeScript platforms · Engineering leadership
- Applied AI systems: agent workflows, RAG/evaluation, computer vision and local inference
- Mobile products: React Native applications with production identity, payments and AI features
- Platforms: Python/TypeScript services, distributed processing, cloud architecture and observability
- Engineering organisations: hands-on technical leadership, hiring, mentoring and reliable delivery
- Tap Health — on-device health AI: React Native model lifecycle, verified GGUF packaging, private local inference, controlled FastAPI fallback, safeguards and observability
- Accio.ai — video commerce & analytics: evolved image matching into real-time video analysis at 500K+ video hours/month, with analytics serving ~5M daily users at 99.9% uptime
- Olive Theory — visual product discovery: built a React Native app for photo-to-similar-product search; 10K downloads in month one and catalogue pipelines updating 200K+ products/day
- BARC — IPL brand visibility: built logo-visibility analytics from IPL broadcast feeds
- Agent Control Plane — tenant-isolated retrieval, approval-gated tools, durable run state and tamper-evident audit events
- WatchClaw — Linux hardening, behavioural threat scoring, honeypots, automated bans, alerts and cross-node threat sharing
- TeamClaw — one-command Ubuntu setup for a team-agent stack with security hardening and rollback
- node-excel-to-json — earlier Node.js utility for converting spreadsheets into JSON
I turn difficult AI and platform problems into reliable products used at scale.