Headline

🏗️ Building Scalable Systems

About

Experienced systems engineer and team lead with focus on distributed systems, scientific computing and machine learning. Passionate about 0-1 journeys and deep tech in general.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

hugging face

langchain

Work experience

Consultant at Skyroot Aerospace, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos

Maintainer at SplitFXM, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, • End-to-end platform for physics-aware AI

Investor at Pettle, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, • Software infrastructure for the pet industry

Advisor at Tohands, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Consultant at Effective AI, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, • Early engineer in startup focusing on AI infrastructure in insurance • Backed by marquee VCs - Lightspeed and Valor Capital • GenAI systems development and ML evaluations

Associate Architect at OSI Digital, May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mo, Hyderabad, Leading ML/GenAI solutions across multiple verticals and geographies

Investor at Tohands, Apr 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, • Hardware+Software for Indian retail using advances in manufacturing and UPI • Flagship product is an affordable smart calculator targeting shopkeepers

Technical Lead at OSI Digital, Nov 2022 - May 2025 · 2 y 6 mo, Hyderabad, • Built DigitalVUE – Next-generation infrastructure ticketing platform • Supported partly by GRID (Growth in Dispersion), Government of Telangana, India

Technical Lead at Teachmint, Jun 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 y 4 mo, Bengaluru, • Early engineer in 500M+$ valuation startup focusing on tech infrastructure in education • Design, development and support of multiple product lines reaching upto 10 million+ users • Organized training sessions and brown-bag meetings related to distributed systems See less

Principal Data Engineer at OSI Digital, Mar 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 y 3 mo, Hyderabad, • Software design, development and mentoring teams across multiple business units targeting India, South East Asia, Middle East and USA • Multiple projects and PoCs in data engineering, business intelligence, speech, video and real-time analytics • Organized training sessions in Apache Kafka, Spark and Recommendation Systems See less

Research/Teaching Assistant at Stanford University, Sep 2013 - Feb 2019 · 5 y 5 mo, Hyderabad, • Large-scale simulation software development using supercomputers and distributed data processing tools for environmental applications • 15+ journal publications and conference presentations during PhD program • Teaching assistant for 4 courses See less

Education

Master's degree, Computational Science, Stanford University

Bachelor's degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@gpavanb

github: https://github.com/gpavanb1