I lead development of AI tooling at IBM, for seller and developer productivity in the CIO department. Below is what I do and how I work.
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At IBM I lead development of AI tooling for seller and developer productivity in the CIO department. Other teams build chatbots and agents. My team takes care of the common pieces so they can focus on their business logic and their agents' tools. We handle RAG, user experience, feedback collection and measuring whether a chatbot is actually giving business value.
I'm from Pune and now work out of IBM's Bengaluru office. Building things was a hobby first, and now it's my job.
I did my B.E. in Information Technology. Most of what I know though, I learnt by building and shipping real software, and breaking a few things along the way. I speak Marathi and English.
Outside office work I keep building side projects. Some became real products, some didn't. Either way I learn something every time.
I work hard, and every few months I take a proper break and travel. I come back with a clearer head, and the work is better for it.
Five things I'm good at. Where they overlap is how I decide what to build.
I use AI tools every day for my own work. By now I know where they save hours and where they waste time.
I pick up new tools and frameworks early. I try them myself first, and suggest them to the team only if they're actually useful.
Most days I'm running several streams of work in parallel, and I make sure none of them gets stuck.
Stakeholders tell me what they need. I think it through, ask the questions nobody asked, and turn it into something we can build and ship.
So I look at problems use case first, customer first, and with cost in mind. Using new tech just because it's new doesn't make sense to me.
Products, side projects, client work and college projects, newest first. Tap a preview to open it.
A Splitwise-style app for tracking shared expenses, splitting bills and settling up, without sending awkward reminders to friends. It's live on the web, App Store and Play Store.
One platform where architects, designers and brands connect, work together and get leads. It has an RFQ marketplace where buyers ask for quotes and dealers respond. I built most of the backend, along with AI agents that keep the product catalogue updated.
A tool to create product tours for web apps. It has a Chrome extension to record tours, a site with docs and tour management, and a script to add the tours to your own website.
A realtime chat app with server-side rendering, built on sockets with Redis on the backend.
See places near you as 360° panoramas, right in the browser, using Pannellum.
A professional network for the Core2web community, made as a responsive React app.
The customer-facing website for WashMart India.
The company website for Biencaps Systems.
A Chrome extension that fills forms with fake but realistic data. Saves a lot of time while testing.
Shows sorting algorithms running step by step, in plain JavaScript.
My final year project. Pulling structured data out of images using a neural network, with a Flask API and a React front end.
A desktop app that marks attendance by recognising faces.
A graphics demo using the raw Win32 GDI APIs, written in C and C++.
An IoT box built on the ESP8266 that reads IR and gas sensors over I2C and SPI.
AI tooling, developer productivity, or some problem that's still not clear, I'm happy to talk about it.
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