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Forward Deployed Engineer @ Vaani Research Labs | Building voice AI agents for Indian businesses

About

I build voice AI agents that let businesses talk to their customers in their own language, at scale. At Vaani Research Labs, I work directly with clients as a Forward Deployed Engineer, taking voice agents from first prompt to live calls. Our work spans collections, customer support, admissions and surveys, in Hindi, English, Hinglish and more. Before Vaani, I built AI voice agents for customer support and e-commerce automation at Hooman Labs, where I learned what it takes to ship things that actually go live. Alongside my work, I'm a CSE student at VIT Chennai (graduating 2027). I led 180 Degrees Consulting VIT Chennai as President and drove startup partnerships as Partnership and Research Lead at V-NEST. Open to: conversations about voice AI, partnerships and pilots. Reach me: saad@vaaniresearch.com

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

elevenlabs

gemini

Work experience

Forward Deployed Engineer at Vaani Research Labs, Mar 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Building the Stripe for Voice AI, an infrastructure that lets every business, app, and service on the planet speak naturally to its users.

GTM Engineer at Hooman Labs, May 2025 - Jul 2025 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, - Developed and refined AI voice agents for customer support and e-commerce automation - Designed and tested prompt strategies, improving performance in live call scenarios - Mapped user behavior and applied LLM prompting to drive product improvements - Learned a ton about product thinking, communication, and what it takes to build things that actually go live

Partnership and Research Lead at V-NEST, Apr 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Chennai, - Secured startup-enablement partnerships with SaaS, productivity and cloud providers, giving incubatees credits and tools - Drafted partnership proposals and outreach workflows to expand the incubator's external network - Audited existing MoUs to identify gaps and strengthen the resource pipeline

Director - Business & Strategy at 180 Degrees Consulting VIT Chennai, Mar 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Director, Business & Strategy; Interim Director; Junior Consultant. Led a team of 8 in business strategy and a 5-member client acquisition team. Led a fundraising team that identified 150+ grants (avg. $75K each) for Buy Food With Plastic India.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

ICSE, N. L. Dalmia High School