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title: "Sharun S Thazhackal - Founding AI/ML Lead in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sharun S Thazhackal, Building AI Systems for Modern Finance | Ex Myntra, Target, Philips Research | IISc | Intelligent Systems based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor, gemini, and hugging face."
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# Sharun S Thazhackal on Tal

## Headline

Building AI Systems for Modern Finance \| Ex Myntra, Target, Philips Research \| IISc \| Intelligent Systems

## About

My work has moved across research, engineering, and production ML \- beginning with my Master’s at IISc, followed by Philips Healthcare Research, and evolving into building real\-world intelligence systems at Target and Myntra that serve millions\. I’ve led computer vision R&D, contributed to patents and publications, and built recommendation, forecasting, ranking, and optimization pipelines that influenced large\-scale business decisions\. Across these roles, I learned how to bring structure to complexity, engineer for resilience, and take ideas from concept to dependable, scalable systems\. In my current role as a founding AI/ML lead, I define the technical direction of our financial intelligence platform \- architecting core systems, designing agentic and ML capabilities, and guiding a small, exceptional team toward our mission\. At its core, the work is about alignment: bringing people, technology, and intent together to build the intelligence layer that enables financial institutions to operate with clarity and confidence\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

gemini

hugging face

langfuse

langgraph

openai

## Work experience

Founding AI/ML Lead at Stealth Startup, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior Data Scientist at Myntra, Jun 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Data Scientist at Target, Apr 2022 \- Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Data Scientist at Philips, Aug 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Data Scientist at Philips, Mar 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Co\-Founder & CTO at Ainnate Innovations Pvt\. Ltd\., Jul 2019 \- Feb 2020 · 8 mos, Cochin Area, India

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\)

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\), Computer Science and Engineering, Mar Athanasius College of Engineerng \(MACE\)

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