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Experience

AI Engineer setting up harnesses, LLMs and evals, with a background in AI-first test automation.

Work

  1. Sep 2026 – Present

    AI Engineer

    Vialto PartnersGlobal workforce mobility: tax, immigration, business travel and remote work services

    Working as an AI engineer, setting up harnesses, LLMs and evals.

  2. Jul 2024 – Jul 2026

    Lead Software Development Engineer in Testing

    UltrahumanHealth monitoring devices and smart ring hardware

    Architected and owned the end-to-end QA automation ecosystem at Ultrahuman as a solo SDET, using AI at every layer, from test generation and data simulation to intelligent mobile automation and LLM evaluation, dramatically accelerating release velocity and test coverage.

    • AI-powered LLM test suite (Doctor AI): Designed and built a RAG-based evaluation framework to test Ultrahuman's Doctor AI feature, detecting regressions, hallucinations and output-quality degradations in LLM responses using custom eval pipelines.
    • Blood Vision, AI blood report analysis: Engineered end-to-end QA for the Blood Vision feature; validated AI-parsed blood test report insights (PDF ingestion → AI analysis → in-app display), ensuring accuracy, edge-case handling and regression safety.
    • Backend API automation: Built a Karate-based API automation suite integrated with Docker for isolated, repeatable test execution across environments.
    • AI user data simulation: Developed an AI-driven user data simulation system ensuring consistent, realistic test data generation across staging and QA environments.
    • Web automation with AI and Playwright MCP: Used AI and Playwright MCP to create self-healing, intelligent web automation scripts, reducing maintenance overhead.
    • Mobile automation (Appium + AI): Implemented Android and iOS UI automation using Appium enhanced with AI-assisted element detection and MCP integration.
    • Observability dashboards: Built company-wide Grafana + Prometheus dashboards for real-time test analytics and Appium failure tracking across all squads.
    • Network debugging: Streamlined API flow validation using Charles Proxy, improving reliability of network call assertions in mobile test suites.
  3. Dec 2022 – Jul 2024

    Senior Software Development Engineer in Testing

    Disney+ HotstarOTT platform: video on demand and live content

    Led a team of 5 engineers on the Player & Consumption squad, responsible for streaming quality for 28M+ concurrent users during peak live events. Owned automation for VOD, LIVE, SSAI/SGAI and multi-platform player stacks (Shaka, Exo, AV Player).

    • UI automation: Playwright (Web + WebLR) and Espresso (Android + AndroidLR).
    • Playportal automation: Real-time LIVE and VOD content health monitoring.
    • Cross-platform player automation: Shaka (Web), Exo Player (Android) and AV Player (iOS).
    • Ad insertion: Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) and Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) integration testing.
    • Load testing: CDN and server-side health validation at scale.
    • Team lead: Managed 5 manual testers across feature, sanity and performance testing.
  4. Oct 2021 – Nov 2022

    SDET Automation Engineer

    100msLive video conferencing SDK

    Drove automation for a WebRTC-based conferencing SDK used by enterprise clients. Built Flutter-based mobile automation frameworks and managed customer testing programs.

    • UI and mobile automation: Playwright (Web) and Appium (Android + iOS Flutter apps).
    • Backend API automation: REST Assured and Karate.
    • Performance and load testing: SDK reliability under concurrent user load.
  5. Jan 2020 – Sep 2020

    Freelance SDET

    Multiple startups

    As a freelance automation engineer, I worked with a few companies to develop their backend and frontend automation frameworks.

    • UI automation
    • Backend automation
  6. Aug 2019 – Dec 2020

    Software Development Engineer

    CiscoNetworking

    Member of the DNA Center Network Management and Automation team, where I had the opportunity to contribute to 5G technology.

    • Functional testing and unit testing
    • UI automation with Selenium
    • Backend automation with REST Assured
  7. Jul 2017 – Jul 2019

    Software Development Engineer

    Entranceplus.inAdmissions services

    • UI/UX designer for the website
    • Frontend developer for the website

Education

  • 2015 – 2019

    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

    R. V. College of Engineering

    • Graduated with a GPA of 3.5
    • Technical Head of CARV
  • 2000 – 2015

    Indian School Certificate Examination

    Carmel Junior College

    • Graduated with 87% marks
    • International award in film making (2014)
    • International rating in chess

Skills

AI engineering and evaluation

  • LLM harnesses
  • LLM and RAG evals
  • AI-augmented testing
  • AI coding
  • AI in day-to-day work

Automation

  • UI automation
  • Backend automation
  • Mobile automation
  • API automation
  • Performance and load testing

Tools and frameworks

  • Playwright
  • Playwright MCP
  • Appium
  • Selenium
  • Espresso
  • Karate
  • REST Assured
  • JMeter
  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Charles Proxy

Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript

Domain experience

  • Health monitoring devices
  • Smart ring hardware
  • OTT platforms
  • Video on demand
  • Live content
  • Video conferencing