Headline

AI/ML Engineer · Founding Engineer @ wiseinvest.in

About

I'm an AI/ML engineer who's still figuring most of it out, particularly the unglamorous middle layer between a working model and a system that doesn't break in production. The work I find most rewarding has been on small teams where the user is one conversation away. Five years across computer vision, document AI, and now agentic LLM products at wiseinvest.in. Looking for senior IC roles where I can keep learning at speed and still own real outcomes.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

cursor

opencode

Work experience

Founding Engineer at Wiseinvest.in, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Hyderabad, Alpha-stage personal-finance product that can track your net-worth across asset and liability classes along with multi-currency support that can provide clarity on your financial health and also provides actionable insights on how to improve it. This is a complete AI development driven company built by harnessing it. All the components including News sentiment analysis, Automatic Blog Generation, SEO optimisations, Backend development, DevOps etc are all part of Multi-agent system orchestrations with dedicated agents working together.

Freelance Consultant at Equal AI Assistant, Apr 2025 - Aug 2025 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, WhatsApp HR onboarding bot -> multi-turn conversational agent that collects new-hire documents over WhatsApp with in-flow schema validation and exception routing. Cut onboarding turnaround to under 4 hours at demo workload. Zepto quick-commerce browser agent (paid client R&D): browser-use-inspired agent (Playwright action layer LLM planner with failure recovery + deterministic navigation primitives) that completes end-to-end shopping tasks. Shipped as reference architecture for the client's production roll-out.

Founder at VB Foods, Apr 2024 - Sep 2024 · 6 mos, Kakinada, Bootstrapped a DTC Andhra-style pickles and snacks food brand. ~₹5L revenue in 6 months at ~35% margin via WhatsApp commerce, local pop-ups, and social campaigns. Owned end-to-end: sourcing, SOP-driven small-batch production, customer support, customer feedback loop. Earned a 4.6/5 customer rating with ~35% repeat-purchase rate.

Data Scientist, Software Engineer at KredX, Sep 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and launched a scalable document digitization service for automated processing and metadata handling, featuring in-house and third-party data extraction models. Engineered a high-throughput ETL micro-service for efficient file handling across various formats, incorporating robust transformation logic for precise data customization. Enhanced system reliability and performance with comprehensive monitoring and logging. Additionally, developed an integrated payment date prediction system to automate periodic dunning emails in the AR core service.

Computer Vision Research Engineer at Wipro Limited, Jul 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, I have coordinated and developed perception stack for Wipro autonomous vehicle. I was part of perception team and developed key AV modules mainly using camera and Lidar sensors. I have developed few solutions like drivable road region identification , object detection and classification in camera space and started working on same in Lidar space. I have also developed sensor fusion algorithms to generate rich data from camera and Lidar, which is later used by planning module of the navigation system.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Vellore Institute of Technology

Intermediate (11th and 12th), M.P.C, Fiitjee Junior College, Hyderabad

Public links

github: https://github.com/damaraju31