Biography

2x Founder, Technologist and Author with 18+ years experience in AI, Cloud and SaaS

Overview

I'm a high-velocity, product-driven technologist and 2x founder with 18+ years of experience building and scaling AI-native cloud platforms. My journey has taken me across London, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune, where I've led engineering, product, AI, and growth teams to deliver successful launches in Cloud Telephony, AI-powered ESG/GHG reporting, FinTech, EdTech, and Agentic AI.

I have deep expertise in search technologies, agentic AI, LLM-powered workflows, vision AI, audio AI, ASR, Text-to-Speech and multimodal AI workflows. Beyond technology, I bring extensive experience in building teams, launching venture-scale products, LLM-SEO, growth marketing, and driving revenue growth using a technology-first approach.

Current Work

Co-Founder & CTO, Superteams.ai

April 2022 – Present | Delaware, US & Delhi, India

Launched Superteams.ai and built a profitable and growing R&D-focused AI-consulting firm. Our work spans multiple cutting-edge AI projects:

  • Built TryThat.ai, a sovereign agentic AI system in the real estate domain using an ensemble of open source LLMs/LRMs, vector search, and SQL, working on 100M+ rows of transaction data
  • Architected the AI stack for Bevolve.ai, with automated invoice parsing (OCR), scope 1-2-3 categorization, and AI-powered ESG report generation
  • Launched NextNeural, a platform for launching sovereign AI agents for enterprises, leveraging open-source reasoning models, vector search, SQL and knowledge graphs
  • Built NeuraSearch, a Rust-based open source search engine for AI search using TF-IDF and GraphBLAS-powered graph algorithms for fast, lightweight, in-memory retrieval

Previous Ventures

Founder & CEO, Spark.Live / Home Screen Network

August 2017 – January 2022 | Bengaluru, India

Founded Home Screen Network, raised $2.2M and scaled the platform to $1M+ ARR and 1.5M+ downloads.

  • Built India's first vernacular live video & edtech platform (Spark.Live)
  • Raised $2.2M from Saama Capital, a US-based VC
  • Formed partnerships with SonyLIV, JioTV, Sharechat, and Dailyhunt; generated 70M+ monthly views
  • Designed video recommendation systems and scaled to 10K+ concurrent streaming sessions

Head of Special Projects & Acting CTO, Knowlarity Communications

October 2013 – March 2016 | Bengaluru, India

Led key technology and product initiatives at India's leading cloud telephony platform powering Swiggy, Zomato, and thousands of SMEs.

  • Served as Interim CTO for 6 months, overseeing technology teams and strategic architecture transitions
  • Co-led development of high-availability telephony backend using Asterisk and WebRTC with 99.99% uptime
  • Played an instrumental role in the $14M fundraising and investor relations
  • Scaled teams and helped hire 100+ engineers during the scale-up phase after Series A & B

Head of Technology & Founding Engineer, State.com

October 2008 – June 2012 | London, UK

Architected and launched State.com, an AI-powered opinion analysis platform leveraging NLP, semantic web, and large-scale graph data.

  • Co-led the IP development and filing of State.com EU patent for opinion network management
  • Leveraged Stanford NLP and NLTK for structured opinion mining from user tweets and comments
  • Led the hiring of the engineering team, growing from first engineer to a team of 35

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
    B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering (1996 – 2000)
  • University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Research Assistant, AI (2000)
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Internship, Computer Science (1999)

Patents & Publications

  • System and Method for Managing Opinion Networks with Interactive Opinion Flows
    Patent Number: EP2745210A1
  • Virtual Kathakali: Gesture Driven Metamorphosis
    Authors: Soumyadeep Paul, Sudipta N. Sinha, Amitabha Mukerjee
    Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India

Impact & Documentaries

  • Produced "Including the Excluded," a documentary highlighting microfinance and financial inclusion in India, sponsored by MFIN
  • Produced and directed grassroots micro-entrepreneurship film for Welthungerhilfe, in partnership with 5 NGOs
  • Produced and directed films for PETA India, Current.tv, IBM, WIPRO, Ogilvy PR

Causes I Care About

Climate Chain, Sustainability, Animal Rights, Disaster and Humanitarian Relief, Education, Poverty Alleviation