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title: "Abhishek Satish - Senior Associate Director | Head of AI in Jaipur | Tal"
description: "Meet Abhishek Satish, Head of AI @ CarDekho Group · Agentic AI, LLM orchestration, production GenAI at scale based in Jaipur. AI stack includes cursor, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Abhishek Satish on Tal

## Headline

Head of AI @ CarDekho Group · Agentic AI, LLM orchestration, production GenAI at scale

## About

Agentic AI engineer and leader — 9\+ years in deep tech, 3\+ shipping production LLM systems at scale\. Today: Head of AI at CarDekho Group \(India's largest auto marketplace, \~60M monthly uniques\)\. Built the AI division from 0→8 over 18 months\. Own the agentic stack that powers the CarDekho and BikeDekho chatbots \(\~25K conversations/day, 1\.5M\+ lifetime messages, <3% hallucination, blended cost\-per\-query \~₹0\.4\) plus an OEM agentic data system shipping into Fortune 500 automotive clients\. Before that: Co\-founder & CTO of Vicara \(2017–2024\) — a deep\-tech AI startup acquired by CarDekho Group in October 2024 for our LLM orchestration IP\. Built the team 0→15, raised two rounds, shipped to Disney/Star Sports, Maruti\-Suzuki, BAT, and Ford\. Two granted patents \(US12229343B2, GB2617708A\)\. Y Combinator interviewed twice \(S19, W20\)\. Forbes India feature, YourStory Tech 30\. What I'm into right now: • Agentic system design — orchestration, tool calling, planning, RAG \(vanilla → hierarchical → agentic\), memory, structured outputs\. • Production LLM engineering — Pydantic AI, FastAPI, evals as living artifacts, OpenTelemetry\-based LLM tracing, cost/latency optimization at scale\. • Agentic engineering as a practice — heavy daily use of Claude Code, Codex, and custom harnesses \(ash, ash\-v2\) for spec\-to\-code, multi\-file refactors, code review\. Happy to talk shop on any of the above\.

## Location

Jaipur

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Senior Associate Director \| Head of AI at CarDekho Group, Nov 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Built CarDekho Group's AI division from 0→1 post\-acquisition\. Grew the team 0→8 in \~18 months, mostly through internships\. Set technical direction for agentic AI across CarDekho, BikeDekho, and enterprise clients in 5 countries\. Production systems I built and own: • CarDekho cars chatbot \(BikeDekho on the same stack\) — user\-facing AI assistant for India's largest auto marketplace\. \~25K conversations/day, 1\.5M\+ lifetime messages, <3% hallucination, p50 latency 3–4s \(down from 10–12s\), blended cost\-per\-query \~₹0\.4 vs ₹0\.5 target\. • Knowledge Engine — plug\-and\-play context system that predated MCP\. Provides context, tooling, memory, RAG \(vanilla → hierarchical → agentic\), prompt management, structured outputs, external API connectors\. FastAPI \+ Pydantic AI \(migrated from LangChain/LangGraph\)\. • Chat Intelligence — automated LLM eval and benchmarking platform\. Nightly accuracy/hallucination/safety/context checks on sampled production traffic, surfaced via Grafana\. Eval regressions gate prompt and model changes; every prod hallucination caught becomes an eval row\. Guardrails \(prompt\-injection detection, content filtering, audit logging\) layered on top\. • OEM \(American automotive\) agentic data system — three\-plane architecture: Data → Access \(RBAC via Azure AD\) → Agent, over an on\-prem LLM stack inside the client's VPC\. Wrote the PoC, won the contract, owned architecture, delivered MVP, handed off\. • Other production work — sentiment summarizer API \(500K\+ reviews\), document extraction \(ViT \+ OCR \+ LLMs\), news summarization, QLoRA fine\-tunes on Gemma/Mistral for domain classification \(\+15–20% over base prompting\)\. • Voice AI — PoC on Gemini Live \+ Twilio \+ ElevenLabs over WebSocket\. Closed enterprise GenAI deals through hands\-on PoC delivery\. Rolled out the "Automind" platform across 5 countries\. \~6 agentic/GenAI use cases shipped in 18 months — all non\-internal use cases revenue\-generating and profitable\.

Assistant Director Of Public Relations at Toastmasters International, Jul 2016 \- Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, India

Co\-Founder, CPTO at Vicara, Apr 2016 \- Nov 2024 · 8 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding CTO of Vicara, a deep\-tech AI startup\. Acquired by CarDekho Group in October 2024 — the acquisition was driven primarily by our LLM orchestration IP, agentic RAG, and the harness layer we used to ship to enterprise clients\. What I built • LLM orchestration frameworks behind the acquisition: multi\-agent orchestration \(LangChain/LangGraph → Pydantic AI\), tool\-calling, ReACT agents with multi\-step reasoning and error recovery, conversation state machines, RAG, memory, structured outputs, guardrails\. • Large\-scale distributed systems end\-to\-end: async processing, event\-driven architectures, REST APIs, WebSocket streaming, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes\. • Full\-SDLC as founding technical leader — hardware, embedded firmware \(ARM Cortex\), backend, ML pipelines, cloud infra, agentic LLM frameworks\. PyTorch \+ HuggingFace across time\-series, anomaly detection, NLP, computer vision, sensor fusion\. • Personally built every client PoC and converted them into multi\-year enterprise contracts\. Clients \(Fortune 500\) • Disney / Star Sports — real\-time motion tracking for broadcast \+ content recommendation\. • Maruti\-Suzuki — sensor intelligence for manufacturing and customer engagement AI; strategic investor\. • British American Tobacco — gesture\-driven UX analytics and enterprise knowledge systems; strategic investor\. • Ford — enterprise GenAI engagement\. As a founder • Built the engineering team 0→15 across 7\+ years and three product\-market pivots\. • Raised two funding rounds\. Managed investors, board, accelerators \(JioGenNext, Bosch DNA Nxt, SINE\-IIT Bombay\)\. • KAI wearable — launched on Indiegogo, raised $110K\+ \(212% funded\), shipped to 35 countries\. • 2 granted patents — US12229343B2 and GB2617708A \(gesture / contactless digit recognition\)\. • Y Combinator interviewed twice \(S19, W20\)\. Forbes India feature \(Oct 2017\)\. YourStory Tech 30\.

Intern at Leaf Technologies Pvt\. Ltd\., Dec 2015 \- Jan 2016 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, In my role as a Hardware Engineer at Leaf Technologies, I collaborated directly with the CTO on a pioneering project aimed at enhancing energy efficiency in HVAC systems\. My responsibility was to develop a hardware product that could interface between HVAC controllers and the systems, optimizing energy consumption\. Key Responsibilities and Achievements: Hardware Module Design: Led the design of the hardware module, tailored to improve the energy efficiency of HVAC systems\. Firmware Development: Wrote high\-performance firmware in embedded C for the STM32 microcontroller unit \(MCU\), ensuring reliable operation of the module\. Connectivity Solutions: Integrated an ESP8266 module to provide seamless connectivity for the hardware\. Algorithm Creation: Developed a bespoke algorithm that formed the core of the product's energy\-saving capabilities\. Data Recording and Simulation: Utilized MATLAB for recording data, visualizing, and simulating various scenarios to refine the product design\. Schematic and PCB Design: Employed Altium Designer for meticulous schematic and PCB layout, crucial to the product's physical assembly\. Project Highlight: Successfully accelerated the product's journey from concept to a Minimum Viable Product \(MVP\) within a tight two\-month schedule\. This project was a cornerstone in my professional development, significantly enhancing my skills in firmware programming, hardware design, thermodynamics, and various design and simulation tools\. The experience was intense, challenging, and exceptionally rewarding, marking a key milestone in my career as a hardware engineer\.

Vice President Public Relations at Toastmasters International, Jul 2015 \- Dec 2015 · 6 mos, India

## Education

Master of Science \- MS, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Liverpool John Moores University

Postgraduate Diploma, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

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