Work Experience
Software Engineer - Part Time
Date: Oct. 1, 2023 - Sept. 30, 2025
Company: SoundHound AI, Berlin, Germany
β’ Engineered multiple production NLU voice-AI domains in Tamil using C++, enabling Natural Language
Understanding for millions of regional users
β’ Leveraged LLM-based code generation (CodeWeaver / GPT, Mistral, LLaMA) to automatically produce
car-control grammar domains, cutting manual authoring time significantly
β’ Collected, cleaned, and processed large-scale Tamil speech datasets from multiple sources to train and validate
speech recognition models
β’ Built an automatic declension generator for Tamil nouns and verbs, improving linguistic coverage of NLU
grammars
β’ Conducted comparative LLM benchmarking (GPT-4, Mistral, LLaMA) across Indian languages to select
optimal models for production use
β’ Delivered internal seminars on CodeWeaver; conducted technical interviews for student recruits and onboarding
sessions for new team members
β’ Collaborated with cross-language teams to standardise localisation workflows and improve consistency across 4
Indian language projects
Backend Engineer - Part Time
Date: July 1, 2021 - Sept. 30, 2023
Company: Natif ai, SaarbrΓΌcken, Germany
β’ Extended a proprietary Python testing framework for deep-learning document extraction pipelines, improving
pipeline evaluation performance by 35%
β’ Designed and implemented a document-extraction aggregation framework supporting diverse documents and
customer requirements
β’ Built scalable FastAPI + MongoDB backend services powering document intelligence pipelines in production
β’ Developed custom extraction use cases in collaboration with domain experts, annotation teams, and customer success
stakeholders
β’ Participated in database-schema design seminars to generalise schema across heterogeneous document types and
use cases
Software Engineer
Date: July 1, 2019 - Sept. 30, 2020
Company: Wipro Ltd, Bengaluru, India
β’ Automated security hardening tasks for server migration to RHEL 7, reducing manual compliance effort and ensuring audit readiness
β’ Built and maintained a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins β integrating automated tests, deployment scripts,
and monitoring for the Ericsson project
β’ Documented automation workflows and conducted knowledge-transfer sessions to improve team-wide process efficiency