Applied AI Engineer with an M.S. in Statistics who builds retrieval and agent systems and measures — with statistics, not vibes — whether they actually got better. Sole technical owner of a six-system civic-tech platform: built ASK NOHA, a hybrid RAG and knowledge-graph assistant over ~1,600 civic meetings orchestrated with LangGraph and exposed as governed tools through MCP with human-in-the-loop approval, backed by a versioned evaluation harness using bootstrap confidence intervals, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels. Also built a canonical public-record data platform spanning 1.7M+ profiles, administer the platform's infrastructure end to end (Vercel, Azure Container Apps, and a self-managed Linux server), and works below the API layer on GPU memory, quantization and local inference performance.
Technical Skills
Experience
OpGov.ai
An initiative of Lead for Earth (non-profit)
August 2025 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
- Took over as technical owner of the entire platform after the lead developer departed, growing ASK NOHA into an agentic system orchestrated with LangGraph and exposed as governed tools through an MCP server, with human-in-the-loop approval on sensitive actions and a policy layer enforcing autonomy boundaries
- Developed a versioned evaluation harness with bootstrap confidence intervals on retrieval deltas, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels via Cohen's kappa — used as a release gate, not a report
- Shipped four more production systems end to end: a publishing platform with a role-based permissions model I designed, a multi-channel campaign communications platform used in a real election, and a geospatial field operations dashboard used in a real campaign
- Engineered a canonical MongoDB platform unifying 1.7M+ public-record profiles and ~4M historical participation records, reconciling a 734,457-record snapshot into 20,060 new profiles while isolating a single ambiguous identity for review
- Administer the platform's infrastructure end to end — the public site on Vercel, the summarization service on Azure Container Apps, and everything else, including ASK NOHA's agent runtime and MCP server, on a Linux server I run myself
- Own product design, system architecture, implementation, deployment and operations across the platform, coordinating a team of up to four including a remote developer
OpGov.ai
January 2025 - August 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
- Joined as the platform's AI engineer and built its first AI service: the meeting summarization microservice on Azure Container Apps, plus the transcript acquisition and ASR pipeline with Whisper fallback for meetings without published captions
- Proposed and began building ASK NOHA, a hybrid RAG and knowledge-graph retrieval system over ~1,600 civic meetings, combining BM25, dense retrieval and Neo4j graph traversal with claim-level citation validation
Petpin AI
Advisory engagement with a pre-funding founder
February 2024 - August 2024
San Francisco, CA
- Turned a founder's early pet-wearable concept into a defined product — shaping requirements, scoping technical feasibility on constrained hardware, and designing the end-to-end system architecture across device, sensing, connectivity and cloud
- Built working prototypes on Raspberry Pi with the Pi AI Camera, running YOLO-based on-device object detection to automatically capture meaningful moments rather than recording continuously
- Developed Python pipelines for real-time ingestion, preprocessing and TensorFlow Lite inference under strict device memory, battery and latency constraints
- Built React dashboards visualizing live telemetry, behavioral signals, device health and model outputs from connected hardware
R P Era
Sole proprietorship · team of 4–5
August 2018 - August 2023
India
- Founded and ran a five-line 3D-printing and laser-engraving business spanning workshops, hardware sales, repair services, imported machine distribution and custom manufacturing, managing a team of 4–5
- Built the business's first customer-analytics workflow after inbound volume from IndiaMART reached hundreds of leads per day, moving from manual spreadsheets to Python-based analysis to identify which segments and channels actually converted
- Established the India import channel for Ortur desktop laser engravers, handling supplier relationship, import logistics, pricing and downstream distribution
- Delivered 100+ customer projects across engineering, dental and corporate custom-gift work, translating vague requirements into specifications, production plans, estimates and finished parts
CSU East Bay
August 2024 - December 2024
Hayward, CA
- Taught probability, statistical inference, hypothesis testing and sampling to a cohort of 22 students through structured lessons and applied examples
- Designed lectures, exercises and assessments connecting statistical concepts to real analytical questions
- Explained quantitative methods to students with varied mathematical backgrounds, strengthening communication with non-specialist audiences
Key Projects
Hybrid RAG, knowledge-graph and agent retrieval over ~1,600 civic meetings — orchestrated with LangGraph, exposed as governed tools through MCP, with human approval on sensitive actions.
Impact: Agentic retrieval with governed tools and enforced abstention
Versioned harness with bootstrap confidence intervals on retrieval deltas, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels via Cohen's kappa.
Impact: Statistical rigor as a release gate, not a report
Unified 1.7M+ profiles and ~4M historical records from incompatible county schemas into canonical profile, election and longitudinal-history models.
Impact: 20,060 new profiles reconciled, 1 ambiguous identity isolated
Live field dashboard over a structured voter database — GPS tracking, nearest-neighbor search over 2dsphere-indexed GeoJSON, and optimized multi-stop routing via the Google Routes API.
Impact: Live dashboard used in a real campaign
A founder's early concept turned into a working prototype: a wearable capturing point-of-view video with on-device YOLO object detection on Raspberry Pi, plus multimodal emotion inference.
Impact: 0→1 hardware + edge AI product, concept to working prototype
Multimodal autonomous agent system for complex task automation, built against the Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent communication.
Impact: 3rd Prize
Education
California State University, East Bay
2023 - 2025
GPA: 3.9 · Heebok Park Scholarship
Data Science concentration with focus on statistical modeling, machine learning, and applied analytics.
University of Mumbai
2014 - 2018
Awards
3rd Prize — MCP × A2A Hackathon
Built a multimodal autonomous agent system for complex task automation, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) communication.
Heebok Park Scholarship
Awarded during the M.S. Statistics program at CSU East Bay.