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title: "Himadri Agrawal - Senior AI Lead - Product and Engineering, Playbooks in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Himadri Agrawal, AI Lead @ Zime AI · Building AI products end-to-end across Product & Engineering · ex-Samsung R&D · Open to AI Product opportunities based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and grok."
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# Himadri Agrawal on Tal

## Headline

AI Lead @ Zime AI · Building AI products end\-to\-end across Product & Engineering · ex\-Samsung R&D · Open to AI Product opportunities

## About

I work at the intersection of AI, product, and systems\. Day to day, that means LLM\-based products \- evals, retrieval, agentic workflows, prompt and model strategy, and the messy production side of GenAI where reliability, latency, and cost actually matter\. Right now, I lead an AI product end\-to\-end \- shaping what we build, discussing how we architect it, aligning stakeholders, mentoring engineers, hiring thoughtfully, and still spending time building hands\-on\. I’m drawn to complexity, but not chaos\. I enjoy working through ambiguity, debating trade\-offs openly, and designing systems that make sense long\-term\. Over time, I’ve grown from shipping features to owning outcomes \- building products and teams that scale with clarity\. Outside of engineering, I’m drawn to structure in different forms \- fashion, music, writing\. I find that good systems and good art share the same foundations: rhythm, precision, and restraint\. I value depth, curiosity, thoughtful engineering, and strong cultures where people grow alongside the products they build\. Long\-term, I’m building toward technical leadership where product vision and engineering depth evolve together\. Still curious\. ✨ I'm always happy to hear from people figuring things out \- whether you're navigating the MNC\-to\-startup jump, thinking about AI/product/tech, weighing a career pivot, or just at a standstill and not sure what's next\. Especially women in tech\. Replies may be slow, but I do read everything\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

grok

langfuse

Supabase

Wispr Flow

## Work experience

Senior AI Lead \- Product and Engineering, Playbooks at Zime, Jan 2026 \- Sep 2026 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Led product and engineering for Playbook Automation at Zime, an AI\-native B2B sales intelligence startup, owning the product roadmap, AI architecture, execution, and a team of 3 engineers\. Some things I worked on: • Playbook Automation: Transitioned 13 enterprise clients to automated playbook creation using modular prompts and workflows, cutting time from 8–10 days to 2–3 days\. • AI Context & Knowledge Systems: Built entity extraction and enrichment pipelines with dynamic taxonomies, knowledge graphs, retrieval, and human\-in\-the\-loop checks\. • AI Quality & Evals: Created production evaluations for LLM insights and tested LLM\-as\-judge using a 79\-case golden dataset\. • Reliability & Observability: Designed multi\-region fallbacks, real\-time alerts, and Langfuse tracing, reaching 98–99% compliance with a 15\-minute SLA over 4–5 weeks\. • AI Cost Optimization: Applied context caching, batch inference, and model routing to lower costs while balancing quality and latency\. • ZBook: Developed an AI system to organize winning sales practices from call insights and client knowledge\. • Team Leadership: Led 3 engineers, hired 2 members, and helped shape hiring frameworks for AI engineering and product roles\. My role sat at the intersection of product thinking, hands\-on AI engineering, and people leadership—from deciding what to build and how it should work to making sure it actually worked reliably in production\.

AI Engineer at Zime, Jul 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Joined Zime after nearly 5 years at Samsung R&D to explore generative AI, work in a fast\-moving startup, and take on broader ownership\. • Developed LLM\-powered sales intelligence, prompt workflows, and AI insights\. • Led early Playbook Automation development, including architecture and modular prompt design\. • Worked with engineering, product, and customer teams to deploy AI in production\. Grew into the Senior AI Lead role, taking on end\-to\-end product ownership, engineering leadership, and people management\.

Software Engineer II at Samsung R&D Institute India, Mar 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Built and deployed a custom Transformer encoder model for content categorization, embedded directly into the Samsung Internet browser Led prompt engineering efforts using Gemini to develop GenAI\-powered features Converted a Python\-based MLP model into a Java implementation for production, reducing external dependencies Collaborated across teams to deliver ML\-driven experiences with strong focus on real\-world application and performance

Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India, Sep 2020 \- Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Intern at Samsung R&D Institute India, Jan 2020 \- May 2020 · 5 mos

Software Engineer Trainee at Groww, India, May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Content Marketing Intern at Neptune Blockchain, May 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 3 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer and Communication Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

CBSE AISSCE Class XII, Indraprastha International School

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