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title: "Sourav Ray - Founder & Principal Engineer — Project Nexus (AI Systems R&D Initiative) in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Sourav Ray on Tal

## Headline

Founder & Principal Engineer — Project Nexus \(AI Systems R&D Initiative\) \| Software & AI Engineer \| Building Intelligent Systems, Data\-Driven Solutions \| Python • FastAPI • Docker • Power BI • Problem Solving • SQL

## About

AI Systems Architect \| Founder, Nexus AI Research Lab I'm building India's first full\-stack sovereign AI research institution from the ground up — not integrating existing tools, but designing original architectures across every layer of the AI stack\. At Nexus AI Research Lab \(Bengaluru\), my work spans foundational LLM development, proprietary memory architectures, multi\-agent orchestration, and safety\-critical systems engineering — all built with production\-grade standards inspired by ISRO, DRDO, and Bell Labs\. What I'm actively building: 🧠 Original LLM Architecture — Designing transformer systems from scratch including custom attention mechanisms \(GQA, Flash Attention 2\), mixture\-of\-experts FFN layers, and a full tokenizer pipeline — without relying on pre\-built frameworks\. 🔮 Memory Protocol Research — Inventing novel AI memory architectures that treat memory as identity\-woven rather than storage\-based, with zero\-null retrieval guarantees, cryptographic persistence layers, and proactive contradiction detection during inference\. 🤖 Multi\-Agent Systems — Designing enterprise\-grade metacognitive agent fleets with context scheduling, manifold routing, and cognitive orchestration for complex, long\-horizon autonomous tasks\. 🛡️ AI Safety & Compliance — Building deterministic constitutional rule engines for AI agent governance, grounded in formal safety standards \(DO\-178C, MIL\-STD\-882E\) and policy\-driven kill\-switch architectures\. 🎙️ Production Voice AI — Shipping a real\-time voice agent platform in Rust integrating STT, TTS, LLM inference, and telephony — built for enterprise deployment\. 🌾 Applied AI for India — Developing AI solutions for Indian agriculture, regional language processing, and sovereign infrastructure — with a long\-term mission of making India a net exporter of foundational AI technology\. My engineering philosophy: build slowly, build right, build to last\. Every system I design is modular, traceable, and rooted in first principles — whether that's formal verification, Vedic epistemology, or distributed systems theory\. I operate at the intersection of deep research and production engineering, using AI\-assisted development as my primary execution layer to move fast without compromising rigor\. 📬 Open to research collaboration, pilot partnerships, and conversations with teams working on foundational AI infrastructure, AI safety, or sovereign AI initiatives\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

langchain

langgraph

ollama

## Work experience

Founder & Principal Engineer — Project Nexus \(AI Systems R&D Initiative\) at Project Nexus \(Independent AI Research Initiative\), Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Remote /Bengaluru/ India, Project Nexus is an independent R&D initiative exploring the design of intelligent, safety\-aligned, and scalable AI systems\. I lead the engineering and research efforts, focusing on developing autonomous frameworks that integrate planning, adaptive learning, and secure sandbox execution\. The project emphasizes reliability, explainability, and real\-world readiness — blending deep technical experimentation with principles of responsible AI development\.

Data Science Internship at Rubixe \- AI Solutions Company, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Mindsprint, Sep 2022 \- Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Intern at Olam Information Services Private Limited, Feb 2022 \- Sep 2022 · 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Master Degree Student at Sathyabama University, Nov 2020 \- Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Tamil Nadu, India

## Education

Master's degree, Computer Science, Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai

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