Career record / 2021—present

Professional Experience

Building production-grade AI systems and delivering impactful solutions

Current Role

Software Engineer 2

Guidewire Software

Bangalore, Karnataka

Jan 2024 - Sep 2026

Applied AI research
Applied AI / Model Evaluation and Right-Sizing
- Evaluate smaller, specialized language models against representative workloads for task quality, cost, and latency.
- Deploy and benchmark open models including Gemma, Mistral, and Llama through internally repeatable evaluation pipelines.
- Build LLM-as-a-Judge and observability workflows, then fine-tune candidate models where task quality needs improvement.
- Shipped an internal agentic workflow that coordinates language models and custom tools for multi-step reporting.
Prior focus area within this role
Sentinel Product Engineering and Secure NL-to-SQL
- Built Go microservices for a product that analyzes software artifacts and applies security policies.
- Delivered secure natural-language-to-SQL capabilities with controls designed for enterprise data access.
- Shipped full-stack features with Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Tracked remediation work and promoted secure engineering practices as the team's Security Champion.

Technical Expertise

Technologies in Production

Python, Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, LangChain, LiteLLM, Langfuse, DeepEval, KServe, and vLLM.

Recognition and Leadership

Google's Agentic AI Day Finalist

Selected as a finalist for Google's Agentic AI Day after building an agentic workflow under event time constraints.

International Speaker & Technical Trainer

Co-presented a production-focused SLM serving talk at Bengaluru Tech Week 2026, presented Fern at Guidewire DevSummit 2025, and delivered Prompt Engineering workshops.

Education Impact

Delivered training in deep learning concepts using MATLAB Deep Designer.