Career
Experience
Professional, research, and volunteer roles that have shaped my expertise in AI systems and platform engineering.
Industry
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Founder
VibeTensor
April 2025 - PresentTelangana, India
- Founded a DPIIT-recognised startup (DIPP206711) building identity and developer infrastructure for AI agents.
- Attestix: open-source attestation layer for AI agents with 47 MCP tools across 9 modules, W3C VCs and DIDs, UCAN and EU AI Act compliance evidence. 12,000+ PyPI downloads (all time, pepy.tech, Sep 2026).
- Also shipped VibeMCP (npm, about 950 cumulative downloads), IssueVista and UpdataMind.
- Secured support from 12+ non-dilutive grant and credit programmes.
Startup
DPIIT
Entrepreneurship
Developer Tools
Senior Software Engineer
Insight Labs AI
July 2025 - October 2025Sydney, Australia (Remote)
- Full-time role owning the AI agent layer of a trading platform.
Next.js
Python
AWS
Terraform
Agent Engineer
Stealth Startup
April 2025 - June 2025Palo Alto, USA (Remote)
- Refactored model interactions using LiteLLM abstraction layer, enabling seamless switching between LLM providers and reducing integration complexity.
- Built 4+ agentic solutions including a news summarizer, CLI tool, and Pulsar/DuckDB connectors for real-time data pipeline orchestration.
- Contributed to the Swarms Framework open-source project, improving multi-agent coordination and extending framework capabilities for production use cases.
AI Agents
LiteLLM
Open Source
Swarms Framework
AI Engineer
Stealth AI Startup
September 2024 - November 2024On-site
- Developed and integrated agentic AI features into an in-house BI product.
- Implemented AI-powered features across ClickSense, Pyramid BI and Power BI integrations.
AI
Agentic Solutions
Product Development
BI Tools
Data Scientist Intern
Arvo (OneArvo Ventures Pvt. Ltd.)
March 2024 - May 2024Remote
- Built a deep learning model with transfer learning for image-based detection.
- Created a synthetic data generation pipeline using GANs.
- Automated image processing workflows to reduce manual inspection.
Deep Learning
GANs
Image Processing
Automation
Software Development Engineer Intern
Eut Hub Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
August 2023 - January 2024Remote
- Built 100+ Node.js data-transformation utilities with Jest test coverage for BI data processing.
- Built a React and Node.js chatbot with OpenAI integration.
- Automated Google Sheets reporting workflows with Snowflake integration.
Node.js
React
Testing
Automation
Research & Academic
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Journal Reviewer
Springer Nature - Multimedia Tools and Applications
March 2025 - PresentGermany - Remote
- Scrutinized cryptographic research manuscripts, identifying critical methodological discrepancies to enhance academic publication integrity.
- Assessed algorithmic implementations of Substitution Box and Linear Fractional Transformation techniques for security applications.
- Provided comprehensive peer review feedback, contributing to advancement of multimedia security and cryptographic research standards.
Academic Review
Cryptography
Peer Review
Research
N2
Workshop Reviewer
NeurIPS 2026 workshops (TAE and AIWILD)
September 2026 - September 2026Remote
- Reviewed 2 papers for the NeurIPS 2026 TAE workshop and 2 papers as an emergency reviewer for AIWILD.
Peer Review
LL
AI Safety Researcher, Summer 2026 cohort
LASR Labs (Arcadia Impact)
July 2026 - October 2026LISA, London, UK
- Funded place in the 13-week full-time LASR Labs research programme, supervised by Satvik Golechha (UK AI Security Institute).
- Team project on the science of model organisms with Theo Farrell, Shreyans Jain and Jayesh Choudhari. Details stay internal until the write-up is published.
AI Safety
Model Organisms
Evaluations
I
Participant, alignment-theory intensive
Iliad Research Intensive
June 2026 - July 2026LISA, London, UK
- Iliad Research Intensive (Iliad x PIBBSS), 8 Jun to 3 Jul 2026; attended all 20 teaching days.
- Curriculum: statistical learning theory, deep learning theory, singular learning theory, goal-directedness and AI control.
- Wrote The Geometry of Generalization, a 343-page write-up (github.com/ascender1729/geometry-of-generalization), and published worked solutions (github.com/ascender1729/iliad-worked-solutions).
AI Safety
Learning Theory
Interpretability
Team Lead - AI Control Hackathon
Apart Research x Redwood Research
March 2026 - March 2026Remote
- Team lead. Built a ControlArena setting (identity_delegation) testing whether a trusted monitor detects within-scope attacks better given delegation-chain context than actions alone.
- Report: Does structured identity context improve LLM-based monitoring? It depends on calibration.
AI Safety
ControlArena
AI Control
Evaluation
AI Safety Participant (4 cohorts)
BlueDot Impact (UK)
February 2026 - May 2026Remote
- Biosecurity Intensive, Group 01 (facilitator Ulrik Horn, Feb 2026). Capstone: an independent audit of the NAO metagenomic surveillance pipeline.
- Technical AI Safety Project Sprint, Group 07 (facilitator Sean Herrington, Mar to Apr 2026), funded by a BlueDot rapid grant.
- Technical AI Safety course, Group 08 (facilitator Caroline Shamiso Chitongo, Mar 2026).
- AGI Strategy Intensive, Group 01 (Apr to May 2026).
AI Safety
BlueDot Impact
Biosecurity
Alignment
Study Participant (independent contractor)
METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research)
October 2025 - January 2026Remote
- Study participant in a 60-participant randomised controlled trial on AI coding tools, invited because of my open-source work.
- Logged 49 issues over 78 billed hours.
- Raised three process improvements that were escalated to METR leadership.
AI Safety
Research
RCT
Software Engineering
Metadata Reviewer
IEEE DataPort Metadata Review Board (MRB)
April 2025 - August 2025USA - Remote
- Examined dataset metadata for scientific rigor and completeness for research datasets.
- Contributed to metadata standards improving dataset discoverability for the research community.
IEEE
Metadata
Scientific Review
Content Developer and Quality Assurance
IEEE Puzzlers
February 2025 - December 2025USA - Remote
- Created and validated computational puzzles demonstrating algorithmic principles.
IEEE
Algorithms
Mathematics
AI Engineer - Climate Heatwave Project
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
February 2025 - April 2025Remote
- Analysed NASA-IBM weather data to identify suitable sources for heatwave prediction models.
- Evaluated meteorological datasets and high-frequency data requirements for GenCast models.
AI
Climate Science
Data Analysis
Research
Ambassador
IEEE Education Week Ambassador Program
October 2024 - April 2025USA - Remote
- Organised community events and presented on AI advancements for IEEE Education Week.
IEEE
AI
Community Outreach
Course Reviewer
IEEE Learning Network (ILN)
July 2024 - June 2025USA - Remote
- Reviewed technical e-learning modules on machine learning and AI for global learners.
IEEE
E-learning
Machine Learning
Research Intern (M.Sc. Thesis)
National Institute of Technology Patna
July 2023 - June 2024Patna, India
- Engineered ML-blockchain healthcare insurance fraud detection system achieving F1 = 0.7345 using an Optuna-tuned weighted ensemble of five classifiers on 5,410 Medicare providers with 190 engineered features.
- Built SHA-256 blockchain audit trail with Merkle tree verification and ECIES encryption (secp256k1 + AES-256-GCM) for provider PII protection.
- Implemented SHAP and LIME dual explainability analysis under the supervision of Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sinha; deployed interactive web prototype on Cloudflare Pages.
Machine Learning
Blockchain
Healthcare
Research
Volunteer
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Volunteer
CRY - Child Rights and You
April 2025 - PresentIndia - Remote
- Volunteered on technology literacy and child-welfare awareness resources.
Social Work
Technology Education
Child Welfare
Resource Development
Mentor
Code Your Future
March 2025 - PresentUnited Kingdom - Remote
- Mentor for refugees learning to code.
Mentoring
Education
JavaScript
Social Impact
AI Chatbot Developer (Online Volunteer)
United Nations Women
September 2025 - November 2025Americas and Caribbean - Remote
- Developed AI chatbot solutions for the UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, improving access to gender-equality resources.
AI
Chatbot Development
United Nations
Gender Equality
Volunteer
Indian Red Cross Society
August 2024 - August 2024Warangal, India
- Supported prescription management and blood donation drives in Warangal.
Healthcare
Volunteer Work
Process Optimization
Social Impact
Leadership
6
AS
Founder
Center of AI Safety Bharat
2026 - PresentIndia - Remote
- Founded as a reading group I ran; now an India AI-safety community run through Telegram. Unincorporated.
AI Safety
Community
YS
Selected Founder Participant
YC Startup School India 2026
April 2026 - April 2026Bengaluru, India
- Selected founder participant at YC Startup School India, Bengaluru, 18 Apr 2026.
Startup
Co-coordinator
Disciplinary Committee, Techno Cultural Fest-2023, NIT Patna
January 2023 - January 2023Patna, India
- Co-coordinated the disciplinary committee for Techno Cultural Fest 2023.
Event Management
Team Coordination
President and Founding Member
Science and Environment Club, NIT Patna
August 2022 - July 2023Patna, India
- Founding member and president of the Science and Environment Club.
Leadership
Environmental Science
Media Coordinator
VISTA Photography Club, NIT Patna
August 2021 - December 2022Patna, India
- Ran social media and helped organise photography workshops and competitions.
Social Media
Photography
Class Representative
Department of Mathematics, NIT Patna
July 2020 - June 2024Patna, India
- Represented the class to the Department of Mathematics faculty for four years.
Leadership
Education