Australia · AI Engineering & Strategy

Technologist.
Experimenter.
Seeker.

Building multimodal, secure, sovereign, ethical, production-grade agentic AI systems; training language models from scratch; and exploring the frontier of Physical AI.

"The future belongs to those who understand at a very deep level how to combine their unique expertise with what algorithms do best."
Pedro Domingos · The Master Algorithm
COGNI-BRAIN
vLLMNVFP4

Hardened agentic deployment on DGX Spark

Nemotron-3-Super-120B running at 23.45 tok/s, top of the spark-arena leaderboard for single-node NVFP4. NemoHermes inside an OpenShell kernel-level sandbox. No cloud, no data leaving the building.

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COGNI.CHAT
Local-FirstMultimodal

Local-first multimodal AI agent platform

Full multi-agent system: Planner, Actor, Vision, and RAG Memory orchestrated locally. Hybrid cloud/local routing, Obsidian vault integration, computer vision, voice output, autonomous code generation. Daily-driven on DGX Spark with Nemotron-3-Super-120B.

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SAGE-GPT
SanskritFrom Scratch

Sanskrit SLM trained entirely from scratch on DGX Spark

7.5M parameter decoder-only Transformer trained on ~140M Sanskrit tokens. Grokking strategy induced for genuine generalisation.

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FIDUCIARY-OPS-AGENT
GeminiGovernance

Autonomous enterprise governance agent

Check-then-Act protocol via Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. Enforces real-time fiduciary risk-alignment. Capstone project for Google/Kaggle AI Agents Intensive 2025.

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COGNI SIGN
Computer Vision2018

Indian Sign Language recognition

Computer vision model achieving 99% precision/recall on Indian Sign Language. Built to bridge communication for the deaf and mute community. Training data collected personally in 2018. An independent initiative predating mainstream vision AI tooling by years.

Experience
Credentials
Awards
AI-Related

2021 — PRESENT

Tribe Lead · Digital Strategy & R&D

ASX-listed retail group · Australia

Led 8 microservices teams (~25 engineers) to deliver a cloud-native MACH architecture. Transformed legacy e-commerce into the foundational layer for enterprise AI readiness, eliminating peak-time manual maintenance and reducing customer wait times from 1 hour to 0.

2018 — PRESENT

Independent Research

Cogni Sign · Sign Language AI

Indian Sign Language · 99% Precision/Recall

Computer vision model to bridge communication for the deaf and mute community. Training data collected personally. Predated mainstream vision AI tooling by years.

2018 — 2020

Technical Program Lead

ACU (via Espire)

Advisor to CIO. Cloud transformation resulting in Microsoft Global Case Studies.

2019 · 2018

Awards

Gem of the Year

Espire Infolabs

2013 — 2021

Director of Technology · Emerging Tech

Espire Infolabs · Gurugram

Incubated multi-million dollar AI/IoT Centres of Excellence. Architected the company's first enterprise AI chatbot in 2015, seven years before the ChatGPT wave.

2017

Award

Automation Champion

Espire Infolabs

2006 — 2013

Consultant

Microsoft · Hyderabad

Architected mission-critical systems for Fortune Global 500: Chevron, Merck, Franklin Templeton, Aviva.

"To free humans from becoming machines, and be more Humane."

Raise human intelligence and consciousness to its full potential via automation and sovereign AI.