Australia · AI Engineering & Strategy

Technologist.
Experimenter.
Seeker.

Building sovereign, local-first AI systems — from language models trained from scratch, through multimodal and long-context agents on DGX Spark, towards a private intelligence layer for knowledge, memory, and autonomous living.

"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 LIFE OS
Local-First Knowledge OS

Sovereign personal knowledge and automation system

A local-first intelligence layer built around an Obsidian-compatible Markdown vault. Combines durable AI agents, multimodal capture, layered lexical retrieval, evidence-backed actions, natural voice interaction, rebuildable indexes, and local Cogni-Brain inference on DGX Spark.

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COGNI-BRAIN 122B
Qwen Multimodal DFlash

High-context multimodal agent brain on DGX Spark

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B INT4+FP8 hybrid served via vLLM with DFlash speculative decoding, text/image/audio inputs, 262K local context, 54.44 tok/s single-stream (68 tok/s peak), and 100/100 Tool-Eval. The latest high-context Cogni-Brain iteration for local agentic and multimodal workflows.

COGNIBASH
ReAct Terminal Agent Fine-Tuned

Terminal/action workbench for Cogni-Brain

A self-correcting bash/action agent using a Qwen2.5-Coder-14B model fine-tuned on NVIDIA Nemotron SFT data. Explores ReAct-style command execution, terminal feedback loops, workspace-scoped runs, output limits, and safer tool-use guardrails for local agent systems.

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COGNI-BRAIN 120B
Nemotron vLLM NVFP4

Sustained long-context agentic work on DGX Spark

Nemotron-3-Super-120B pushed beyond one-click demonstrations into sustained agentic workloads. Stabilised at 131K local context, approximately 24 tok/s, and 93/100 Tool-Eval, with a hardened agentic stack and reproducible benchmark methodology.

COGNI-BRAIN 35B
Qwen Atlas NVFP4

Fast local tool-agent brain on DGX Spark

Qwen 3.6-35B served through Atlas with approximately 219 tok/s, 100/100 Tool-Eval, and local NVFP4 acceleration. Demonstrates how a smaller model paired with an efficient inference architecture can support responsive coding and agent loops.

COGNI-BRAIN 12B
Gemma Multimodal vLLM

Dedicated local multimodal perception agent

Gemma 4 12B on DGX Spark via vLLM with image input, audio and voice-note workflows, video-as-frames perception, multilingual chat, tool calling, 196K tested context, and reproducible local benchmarks.

COGNI.CHAT
Local-First Multimodal

Local-first multimodal AI ecosystem

A broader ecosystem for personal and household intelligence spanning memory, planning, wellbeing, learning, creative work, family coordination, and interaction across text, voice, images, and personal context. Cogni Life OS provides its sovereign knowledge and automation foundation.

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SAGEGPT-7.5M · DGX
Sanskrit From Scratch

Sanskrit language model trained from scratch on DGX Spark

A 7.5M-parameter decoder-only Transformer trained on approximately 140M pure Sanskrit tokens, with 6 layers, 8 attention heads, 256-dimensional embeddings, a 1024-token context window, and an approximately 8K vocabulary.

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SAGEGPT-7M · MLX
Sanskrit Apple MLX

Sanskrit language model trained from scratch on Apple Silicon

A 7M-parameter decoder-only Transformer trained on approximately 57M Sanskrit tokens using Apple MLX, with 4 layers, 8 attention heads, 256-dimensional embeddings, and an 8K vocabulary.

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FIDUCIARY-OPS-AGENT
Gemini Governance

Autonomous enterprise governance agent

Implements a strict Check-then-Act protocol using Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite to enforce real-time fiduciary risk alignment through tool-first orchestration. Built as a capstone project for the Google and Kaggle AI Agents Intensive.

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COGNI SIGN
Computer Vision 2018

Indian Sign Language recognition

Computer vision model achieving 99% precision and recall on Indian Sign Language. Training data was collected personally in 2018 to explore technology that could bridge communication for deaf and non-speaking communities.

Experience
Credentials
Awards
AI

2021 — PRESENT

Tribe Lead · Digital Strategy & R&D

ASX-listed retail group · Australia

Led eight microservices teams of approximately 25 engineers to deliver a cloud-native MACH architecture. Transformed legacy e-commerce into a foundational layer for enterprise AI readiness, eliminating peak-time manual maintenance and reducing customer wait times from one hour to zero.

2018 — PRESENT

Independent Research

Cogni Sign · Sign Language AI

Indian Sign Language · 99% Precision/Recall

Built a computer vision model to explore communication support for deaf and non-speaking communities, using training data collected personally.

2018 — 2020

Technical Program Lead

ACU via Espire

Advised the CIO and contributed to a cloud transformation recognised through 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 and IoT Centres of Excellence and architected the company's first enterprise AI chatbot in 2015.

2017

Award

Automation Champion

Espire Infolabs

2006 — 2013

Consultant

Microsoft · Hyderabad

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

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

Raise human intelligence and consciousness to their full potential through automation and sovereign AI.