Headline

Engineering Leader @ 1mind | We’re Hiring! 🚀 Knowledge Team & India Operations | Building AI Superhumans | IIT Bombay + Georgia Tech | Ex-Samsung (Galaxy AI, Bixby)

About

I build AI systems that talk to real customers, not chatbots, not demos, but AI teammates that join live video calls, run product demos, and handle objections for enterprise sales teams. As Engineering Leader at 1mind, I lead the Knowledge team and run India operations. My team owns the systems that make our AI Superhumans actually know what they're talking about: knowledge retrieval, citation quality, and enterprise integrations that work in the messy real world. Before this, I spent 10+ years at Samsung leading AI and NLP teams. I shipped Galaxy AI features for the S24 and S25, built on-device LLMs that run on phones with less than 4GB of RAM, and led the company-wide LLM Adoption TaskForce.IIT Bombay + Georgia Tech(ML). I've navigated the full arc: big tech to startup, IC to engineering leader, India to global, and I write about what I've learned along the way. Production AI, engineering leadership, and the stuff tutorials skip.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Engineering at 1mind, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru

Staff Engineer (Manager) at Samsung R&D Institute India, Mar 2020 - Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Managing a team of 7 members and experience of managing different variety of Projects for Bixby and Galaxy AI use cases. • Developed NL modules for ASR Text Processing including Inverse Text Normaliser, Punctuation, NL-End Point Detection, etc for 8 lanuages including English, Hindi and Turkish. • Developed Server based LLM pipeline to support 4 Galaxy AI use cases including Translation, Correction, Summarisation and Tone Conversion with Google Gemini. • Developed On-device LLM deployment pipeline to support large models on S24 devices using Pruning, Quantisation, Factorisation and Mobile Runtime using MLC. • Developed LLM Evaluation framework to evaluate LLM responses quantitatively & qualitatively across multiple criteria, e.g. Fluency, with minimal reference data. • Expanded Bixby NLU pipeline to 2 additional languages for 4 devices while improving the In-scope(2%) and Out-of-scope(8%) accuracy reducing Data Drift. • Incorporated Agile Methods to improve team productivity and quality by 25% • Improved Coverage of NL classifier by developing BERT-based text classifiers while improving the latency, accuracy and data requirements for Training.

Senior Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India, Mar 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, Working on Human Robot Interaction AI Development, developed On-device solutions for Voice Interactions, Navigation and Action Planner based on Hybrid Rule-based and Deep Learning based Englines. • Designed and Developed Multi-Modal NLU, Dialog Manager and Multi-Task Planner module for Samsung Robots in Education and Retail setup • Developed OnDevice Multi-Modal Interpreter with late fusion method for Text, Face, Object and Touch modalities. • Developed Navigation Module for Guiding & Following Customer use cases for Samsung Robot Challenge,2019 competing against Global centres.

Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India, Mar 2017 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, Working on Bixby NL Platform Development, developed On-Device solution for Voice Assistant, researched and implemented Text Classifier based on Deep Neural Networks for 60+ Apps supported in Bixby. • Improved Word Embeddings using character features to solve unknown word feature problem frequently observed in text classifier for User input based NLU systems. • Lead a team of 3 Data Science Interns to design and develop a Multi-Modal Object Recognition module with Image and Test with research in various aspects of Early Fusion and Late Fusion. • Designed and Developed the light weight NLU Engine and Machine Learning Models for Android devices • Took responsibility of E2E project development of On-Device Bixby project including Scrum, SCM, etc.

Software Developer Intern at Signals Inc., May 2013 - Jun 2013 · 2 mos, Noida, India, • Android Development Team of Shifu, time management application for Android devices •• Worked extensively on Evernote API to add features for Call Notes, Reminders, Note suggestions, etc. •• Integrated LinkedIn with application and analyzed user data to create appropriate suggestions •• Developed product website and product log management interface to monitor product usage •• Referred and Integrated RESTful web services (JAX-RS) to handle web requests from clients devices

Institute System Administrator at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Apr 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr, Mumbai Area, India, • Spearheaded a team of 15 Hostel System Administrators and 30 Computer Secretaries •• Monitored well-functioning of Institute’s network, IT infrastructure including Gymkhana servers •• Ensured Speedy setup of network facility in newly established hostels in institute

Web Developer Intern at Purplle.com, Dec 2012 - Dec 2012 · 1 mo, Mumbai Area, India, •• Improved Server Response time by implementing Database Caching & Object Caching (in File & RPC) •• Performed Front End Optimization tasks using Lazy Load/Loss-less Image Compression & JS Compression/Sub-domain Content Distribution methods •• Designed and Implemented New module for generating Automated Purchase Orders in Back-end ERP for Operations Technologies:- LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), Code-Igniter Framework, Php Libraries (Caching & Image Compression)

Web Nominee, Hostel Affairs at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Apr 2012 - Mar 2013 · 1 yr, Mumbai, India, Nominated member of Hostel Affairs council to manage web related work involved in council • Revitalized online Complaint Management System to cater complaints of over 8000 students • Revamped Lost n Found and Guest Accommodation Booking System Website • Developed Online Institute Market Place, buy/sell web interface and Student Affairs Website • Introduced Election Website to conduct elections in 15 hostels each catering over 40 candidates

Education

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay