work

applied ai systems built across startups and enterprise teams.

I work on intelligent products where architecture, usability, and business value need to come together cleanly. My recent work spans enterprise agents, retrieval systems, voice workflows, and operational AI products used by real teams.

  • ai agents
  • rag systems
  • voice + asr pipelines
  • applied ml in production

get in touch if you are building something ambitious with AI.

10+ years

leading teams across startups, product engineering, and applied AI

40,000+

candidates screened through production interview-agent systems

$5M exit

after raising $750K and building Azuro into an acquired business

highlights

selected work

Recent systems and products that best reflect how I like to build.

August 2025 - Present

Simpplr AI

Comms AI

Worked on Comms AI at Simpplr, an AI-native workspace for internal communicators spanning planning, drafting, approvals, and multichannel publishing inside a governed enterprise workflow.

January 2025 - August 2025

Sequoia

AI Assist

Built task-oriented AI assist systems for benefits and people operations workflows, connecting enterprise data, retrieval, and automation.

June 2024 - January 2025

Sprouts AI

Autonomous Interview Agent

Built a production interview system that combined ASR, LLM reasoning, and TTS into a live screening workflow.

January 2020 - May 2024

SquareYards

AI Sales Co-pilot

Built real-time sales support systems that used retrieval and live context to recommend next-best actions to sales agents.

July 2015 - January 2020

Azuro

Property management platform

Built and scaled a property-management business and software platform that grew to manage more than 3,000 residential properties.

by company

work by company

The broader body of work behind the selected highlights above.

August 2025 - Present

Simpplr AI

Principal AI Engineer

Working on Simpplr's agentic AI across internal communications and employee-facing AI workflows, with a recent focus on Comms AI and survey intelligence.

Comms AI. Worked on Comms AI at Simpplr, an AI-native workspace for internal communicators spanning planning, drafting, approvals, and multichannel publishing inside a governed enterprise workflow.

Employee survey analysis. Built survey intelligence workflows that turned employee feedback into structured multilingual analysis, reducing latency to under 5 seconds with support for 32+ locales.

January 2025 - August 2025

Sequoia

AI/ML Lead

Led AI work for benefits and people operations products used by enterprise customers including OpenAI, Dropbox, Brex, Headspace, and DocuSign.

AI Assist. Built task-oriented AI assist systems for benefits and people operations workflows, connecting enterprise data, retrieval, and automation.

Benefits chatbot. Deployed a RAG-based assistant for employee questions on medical benefits, insurance, wellbeing, and related coverage topics.

June 2024 - January 2025

Sprouts AI

Director of AI

Led the design and delivery of frontier-model products for enterprise customers, with a focus on agentic workflows that could operate in real environments.

Autonomous Interview Agent. Built a production interview system that combined ASR, LLM reasoning, and TTS into a live screening workflow.

AI Browsing Agent. Developed an agent capable of carrying out multi-step browser tasks in a more human-like, goal-driven flow.

January 2020 - May 2024

SquareYards

Senior Vice President, Head of AI-ML

Led AI and machine learning initiatives across SquareYards product lines after the acquisition of Azuro, with work spanning search, sales, creative tooling, and operational intelligence.

AI Sales Co-pilot. Built real-time sales support systems that used retrieval and live context to recommend next-best actions to sales agents.

Real estate AI chatbot. Built RAG-based customer search and support systems on listings and real-estate inventory using fine-tuned open-source models such as Llama 2 and Mistral.

AI voice-based virtual brokers. Prototyped AI voice agents for lead qualification using Twilio, Whisper ASR, TTS, and LLM orchestration.

Virtual staging. Applied diffusion workflows such as DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and LoRA-based customization to staging and property visualization.

Vision systems for property images. Trained Vision Transformer-based systems to classify real-estate imagery into practical categories such as kitchen and bedroom.

July 2015 - January 2020

Azuro

Co-Founder

Co-founded and scaled a property-management platform, raised $750K in venture capital, and led the company through a $5M acquisition by SquareYards.

Property management platform. Built and scaled a property-management business and software platform that grew to manage more than 3,000 residential properties.

Growth and traffic systems. Improved key sources of web traffic and platform growth, increasing daily pageviews by more than 40 percent.

July 2014 - June 2015

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Team Leader, Asia-Pacific FX

Among 2 of 17 incoming analysts fast-tracked into Asia-Pacific FX team-lead roles across Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore.

FX risk coordination. Worked closely with regional traders to mitigate spot and forward positions in Asian currencies across Asia-Pacific desks.

End-of-day automation. Automated end-of-day checks using Excel macros informed by academic research, reducing manual errors to under 50 percent.