Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi's data infrastructure and storage subsidiary)

Senior Software Engineer (ML)

• Led the ML development of Hitachi iQ, Hitachi’s upcoming AI infrastructure platform. Defined ML roadmap, setup tools and processes for development and deployment and involved in hiring for ML team.
• Fine-tuned multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) of for enterprise use cases on the Hitachi iQ platform.
• Adapted and integrated models from other Hitachi companies enabling knowledge reuse and faster time-to-value.

Zycus (Enterprise procurement software [source-to-pay] product firm)

Staff Engineer - ML

• Spearheaded migration of flagship invoice product to Generative AI architecture, driving cost reduction through token-efficiency and architectural redesign. Reduced tenant onboarding time and expanded product coverage.
• Drove development of contract-intelligence product from proof-of-concept to production, reducing architectural complexity by 75%, doubling detection accuracy, and slashing training time from days to hours.
• Drove organization-wide adoption of engineering best practices, reducing escalations and new-hire ramp-up time.
• Redesigned OCR services, future-proofing the platform for engine upgrades, enabling multiple downstream products.
• Pioneered organization-wide cloud-storage (S3) enablement from the AI side, authoring documentation, running knowledge-transfer sessions, and co-designing a multi-region architecture complying with local data regulations across geographies.

Cognizant (Fortune 200 IT services and consulting firm) | Pune

Associate

• Joined the R&D division as its youngest member; represented Cognizant in a research collaboration with process-mining researchers at Fraunhofer FIT (Germany) and presented work directly to the company's Global CTO.
• Built a process-mining discovery solution using the Heuristic Miner algorithm, improving accuracy by over 60%.
• Delivered enterprise AI solutions for global clients, including an automated support-ticket classifier for a global pharmaceutical firm reaching 90%+ accuracy across 35+ categories, and an ITSM system expanded to 16 languages via zero-shot NLP.
• Developed tools for exploring AI in regulated and trust-sensitive domains:
• o privacy-preserving anomaly-detection using federated learning (enabling model training on sensitive, distributed data) and
• o custom ML-explainability solution to support client transparency and regulatory discussions.

• Multiple Zycus Award for Innovation, Agility and Customer Focus - (Team), 2024 and (Individual), 2021.
• Selected for Cognizant’s Orbit Shifter program that identifies top candidates from campus hires.
• Contribution to AI Governance Whitepaper issued by Takshashila Institution.
• Discussant for 2026 NAST Conference, Bangalore organised by Takshashila Institution.
• Multiple annual promotions and accelerated career track at both Cognizant and Zycus.

• B.Tech (ECE) – DIT University, Dehradun
• PGP in Public Policy – Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru

• - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Certified Professional (June 2024)
• - Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (June 2021)
• - TensorFlow Developer Certificate (Dec 2020)
• - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG (Jan 2016)

• Students’ Judicial Councillor (SJC) for PGPX, responsible for conducting all student elections and dispute redressals in accordance with IIM-A Student Constitution
• Winner of Manthan 2026 Case Competition held at IIM-A.