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Experience
AI Engineer setting up harnesses, LLMs and evals, with a background in AI-first test automation.
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Work
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Jul 2017 – Jul 2019
Software Development Engineer
Entranceplus.inAdmissions services
- UI/UX designer for the website
- Frontend developer for the website
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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
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