i'm sushant 👋

director of AI, — building enterprise-grade intelligent AI agents

i'm a hands-on ai-engineer and leader having founded, led and scaled multiple vc-backed startups. i enjoy helping companies turn noisy data into production ready AI agents. worked extensively with rag, knowledge graphs, llms, diffusers, fine-tuning and deploying open-source models

experience 🚀

Director of AI

Sprouts AI
June 2024 - Present

Enabling large enterprises to leverage AI agents on their proprietary data and workflows

  • Autonomous Interview Agent: Orchestrating ASR, fine-tuned LLMs and Streaming LLMs for real-time interview for screening candidates in early stage of hiring
  • LinkedIn Prospecting Agent: Building LinkedIn-based AI agents for prospecting and lead generation
  • AI-Powered Sales Assistant: Building AI-powered sales assistants for sales teams to help with lead qualification and sales enablement

Senior Vice President, Head AI-ML

SquareYards
Jan 2020 - May 2024

Leading AI-ML initiatives at Squareyards ($900M+ valuation) across various business units such as Sales, Mortgages, Rentals, Property management and interior design

  • AI Phone Agents: Prototyped an AI-voice based caller for lead qualification leveraging Twilio API, Whisper ASR, TTS and LLMs for real-time response generation
  • AI Chatbot: Developed LLM-based chatbots leveraging RAG on vector databases for providing better search results and lead generation
  • Content Generation: Built RAG-based LLMs for generating real estate blog posts by digesting content from other media outlets
  • Image Classification: Fine-tuned InceptionV3 and XCeption models for classification of real estate images to categories such as Living Room, Bedroom, Kitchen

Co-Founder

Azuro
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019

Co-founded Azuro, real estate tech company for end-to-end services for home owners and tenants. Raised $1M+ in funding from VCs such as Kae Capital, Mumbai Angels & White Unicorn Ventures

  • Product Development: Led & streamlined functions across marketing, design & engineering teams; more than 3,000+ residential properties under management
  • Lead Generation: Built a model for predicting the probability of a lead converting to a customer using XGBoost and LLMs
  • Property Management: Built a model for predicting the probability of a tenant vacating the property using time series analysis and LLMs

Team Leader

Bank of America
Jul 2014 - Jun 2015

Among 2 incoming analyst, who were fast-tracked to Team Leaders in Asia-Pacific FX desks (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney & Singapore) and had cleared CFA Level 1 in the final year of undergraduate study

  • Risk Management: Liaised with Sales & Traders of APAC region, Tokyo, Sydney and Hong Kong teams to mitigate spot & forward risk positions in Asian currencies
  • Automation: Automated End-of-Day checks with MS-Excel macros by reviewing some recent academic papers; reducing manual errors to less than a half