Production Gen AI
Building LLM-backed product flows with evaluation, guardrails, and practical reliability inside Applied ML systems.
Focus
Where I spend most of my engineering energy.
Fintech platforms
Designing lending, credit, scholarship, and payment infrastructure that turns complex policy into clear product paths.
Distributed backends
Shipping APIs, data pipelines, and partner integrations that stay predictable under high-volume financial workloads.
Operational leverage
Replacing manual operations with self-healing checks, strong test suites, and automation that compounds across engineering teams.
Experience
The high-level arc: applied AI, fintech infrastructure, and automation across startups and large-scale product teams.
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UpstartCurrentSenior Software Engineer
Jun 2026 — Present · Los Angeles
Building Gen AI products within Upstart's Applied ML organization, with an emphasis on reliable evaluation and production LLM systems. The work brings model quality, product judgment, and fintech rigor into the same engineering loop.
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Career break
Travel across Southeast Asia
Mar 2026 — May 2026
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Backpack PaymentsSenior Software Engineer
Sep 2025 — Feb 2026 · Remote
Applied LLMs to classify 529-eligible student expenses and built a bulk scholarship intake and allocation engine that reduced manual processing by 65%. Integrated Touchnet across refunds and cancellations. Expanded end-to-end automation to help maintain 99.9% payment-platform uptime.
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PipeSenior Software Engineer
Apr 2024 — Sep 2025 · Remote
Automated the capital pipeline from revenue data to advance offers, enabling rapid partner onboarding as the business reached $100M ARR. Extended the platform to serve sole proprietors and broaden the addressable market. Built automated document workflows that improved compliance operations efficiency by 40%.
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Upstart
Software Engineer → Software Engineer II
Sep 2020 — Apr 2024 · Remote
Built lending and servicing platforms across bank integrations, pricing allocation, credit reporting, and borrower workflows. Led cross-bank allocation work tied to 37% growth in repeat-loan originations and $440M in quarterly volume. Automated support scripts and self-healing health checks, cutting reactionary engineering effort by 45%. Earlier marketplace work accelerated onboarding for 140 banks and credit unions by 65%.
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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Jun 2016 — Dec 2018 · Hyderabad
Led automation for Google Chat and established a Selenium and Python test framework from the ground up. Modernized Gmail Android test infrastructure by moving a monolithic Java framework to Python. Built a role-aware Apps Script workflow that scheduled and distributed review work for AdSense operations.
Education
Computer science foundations across graduate and undergraduate study.
Contact
Open to interesting backend and AI systems problems.