Software Engineer - Part Time

Date: Oct. 1, 2023 - Sept. 30, 2025

Company: SoundHound AI, Berlin, Germany

• Engineered multiple production NLU voice-AI domains in Tamil using C++, enabling Natural Language
Understanding for millions of regional users
• Leveraged LLM-based code generation (CodeWeaver / GPT, Mistral, LLaMA) to automatically produce
car-control grammar domains, cutting manual authoring time significantly
• Collected, cleaned, and processed large-scale Tamil speech datasets from multiple sources to train and validate
speech recognition models
• Built an automatic declension generator for Tamil nouns and verbs, improving linguistic coverage of NLU
grammars
• Conducted comparative LLM benchmarking (GPT-4, Mistral, LLaMA) across Indian languages to select
optimal models for production use
• Delivered internal seminars on CodeWeaver; conducted technical interviews for student recruits and onboarding
sessions for new team members
• Collaborated with cross-language teams to standardise localisation workflows and improve consistency across 4
Indian language projects