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I lead AI at Datatailr, building for hedge funds and high-frequency traders: retrieval and vector search over data no model has seen. I also own the infrastructure and DevOps behind the platform they run their strategies on, and work on our query engine, a federation layer that answers across 100,000+ tables about 90% faster than the setup it replaced.
Three systems: the AI work I lead, the platform infrastructure, and the query engine. Pick a node.
Three systems at Datatailr.
I've been at Datatailr since 2023, on the founding team, and I'm the lead AI engineer here. That work is mine to direct: retrieval pipelines, vector search, embeddings, and the MCP servers that put all of it in front of a model. The point is letting someone ask a question of a dataset no model was ever trained on, and get an answer they can put money behind.
The rest of my week splits about evenly between two products. One is the Datatailr platform, which quants and high-frequency traders use to run their strategies without touching what's underneath. Underneath is mine: infrastructure-as-code across AWS, Azure, GCP and Hetzner, private networking on Azure, the DAG scheduler behind every batch job, and the deploy pipelines and monitoring around all of it. Right-sizing that stack took compute spend down about 75%.
The other product I work on is our query engine, a high-speed federation layer that answers across more than 100,000 tables without moving any of them, about 90% faster than the setup it replaced.
Before that I wrote Rust at Juspay on Hyperswitch, their open-source payment orchestrator. Before that, internships at IBM and Brane, and a GitHub Externship with Suborbital where I spent a few months writing WebAssembly runnables.
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2023 — now
Lead AI & Founding Engineer Datatailr
Lead the AI work: retrieval, vector search, embeddings and MCP servers. Own the infrastructure and DevOps on the Datatailr platform: Terraform across AWS, Azure, GCP and Hetzner, a private network cluster on Azure, DAG-based batch orchestration and the CI/CD behind it, which took compute spend down about 75%. Also work on the query engine, a Trino layer unifying 100K+ tables across Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Hive, S3 and MySQL, cutting heavy query runtimes about 90% and letting quants join across sources with zero ETL. Enabled 10+ business deployments, driving +250% ARR and a $500k pipeline, and work directly with enterprise clients on production rollouts.
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2023
Software Engineer Juspay
Rust work on Hyperswitch, their open-source payment orchestrator: idempotency, retries and validation under high concurrency. Also built backend SDKs in five languages.
Earlier: internships and freelance
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2023
SDE Intern Datatailr
Early work on the platform, before joining full time.
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2023
SDE Intern IBM
RPA bots for supply-chain workflows. Automated 10+ tasks a week, with scheduling, retries and monitoring.
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2022
Freelance Developer Bflashy
A Web3 Android app. Firebase auth and Firestore wired to Ethereum workflows, with POAP-style tokens for on-chain identity.
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2022
SDE Intern, GitHub Externship Suborbital
20+ WebAssembly runnables in Rust, Swift, TinyGo and JavaScript, plus additions to the
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2022
SDE Intern Brane Enterprises
Features and bug fixes in a cloud-computing app built in Flutter. 10+ UI components on the BLoC pattern.
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2021
SDE Intern Surya Software Systems
Worked on Surya's RPC server and CLI, adding automatic generation of Postman collections from YAML.
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2021
Freelance Developer TradeX
Integrated several stock APIs into an Android app for automated stock calls.
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2021
UI/UX Developer Kewl Motors
Web UI for an EV brand, plus posters and brand collateral in Illustrator and XD.
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2021
Graphic Designer Neurotech Designs
50+ social posters, logos and covers, plus 10+ UI elements for a wellness-tech company.
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2020
Designer & Content Writer ShubhChintak Technology
50+ social posters and 50+ technical blogs for a web, SEO and DevOps agency.
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2020
Technical Content Writer Intellify
30+ technical blogs for an IIT-Delhi education startup under the SOLVE Foundation.
Education
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2019 — 2023
B.E. Computer Science Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Bangalore. Graduated with a CGPA of 9.10.
Wins and placements
- Smart India Hackathon Winner. A fake-news detection system, awarded by the Government of India. 2022
- ACM-ICPC Regionalist. Kanpur–Mathura, among the top 80 teams onsite. 2022
- GitHub Externship Selected from 14,000+ applicants, about a 0.6% acceptance rate. 2022
- Meta Hacker Cup India rank in round 2, up from 186 in round 1. #86
- Google Code Jam India rank in farewell round C, up from 248 in round A. #43