i'm sushant 👋
director of AI, Sprouts 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 AIEnabling 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
SquareYardsLeading 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
AzuroCo-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 AmericaAmong 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