About
Petropt is operated by Groundwork Analytics LLC. Founder-led, with specialist support brought in per scope — built for operators, lenders, and M&A buyers.
Founder
Founder, Petropt
Former AI Transformation & Technology Leader at Baker Hughes (upstream service lines), then senior AI leadership at Cisco — Head of LLMOps & Evals and Head of AI Innovation for Manufacturing Operations. Stanford PhD in energy systems optimization; dual BSc Mechanical + Petroleum Engineering at Sharif University.
Founded Petropt to bring AI engineering to upstream oil & gas under a founder-led, NDA-bound model — defensible decisions, on a deadline, for operators, lenders, and M&A buyers.
LinkedIn →Principal AI Engineer
Co-founder & Lead Data Scientist at App0 (via acquisition of Assistalong) — built technology that drove ~10× engagement and ~40% revenue lift for pilot merchants. Former VP, Applied AI/ML Lead at JPMorgan Chase leading a 7-person team on hierarchical Bayesian models. Earlier: LeanTaaS and Walmart Global Tech.
Brings senior AI engineering experience to confidential upstream decision work. PhD ECE, UIUC; MS Econometrics + dual BSc Electrical Engineering (Control) + Petroleum Engineering at Sharif University.
How we operate
We start from upstream engineering workflows, not a horizontal AI playbook. The technical work has to be right; AI only helps move it faster.
Operator data, decision context, and workflow specifics stay under NDA. Public pages show enough to evaluate fit; engagement work happens privately.
Senior engineers, reservoir consultants, and domain experts are brought in when the engagement needs them. No fake bench. No anonymous handoffs.
Work with us
30-minute scoping call. NDA-bound.