3
companies & ventures founded
Anamii (exited to HereNow) · thirty3 · AI Hub Switzerland
About
An engineer, a founder, an operator.
Fifteen years building AI, big-data and cloud systems, from voice assistants at Amazon Lab126, to regulatory copilots for Swiss banks, to a wellness platform I founded and exited.
Today I lead AI strategy and delivery as Co-founder, CTO & Board Member at thirty3 and co-initiate AI Hub Switzerland. Based in Zürich, U.S. citizen of Indian heritage. UCLA MSc in data science and machine learning.
§ Career
Fifteen years, three continents.
- 2026 →
Co-initiator
AI Hub Switzerland
Public-interest hub for responsible AI adoption in Swiss SMEs. - 2022 →
CTO & Partner
thirty3 AG, Zürich
Lead AI strategy & delivery across CH, IN and PL teams. - 2020 – 2023
Founder & CEO
Anamii AG (acquired by HereNow)
Mental-wellness platform, exited to HereNow. - 2020 – 2023
Advisory & Tech Due Diligence (Freelance)
SwissFoundations · Seedling Foundation (Open Food Network CH) · Malaica · Fundraising Ally · Ellexx · Besso
Independent IT/AI assessments for M&A, grants and investment. - 2017 – 2020
CTO
Vicara Infotech Group AG, Zürich
Scaled to 50+ engineers; introduced cloud & big-data to Swiss finance. - 2015 – 2017
Sr. Software Engineer
Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale & Cupertino CA
Alexa NLP and FireTV/Kindle help platforms. - 2012 – 2015
Graduate Researcher
Complex Networks Lab, UCLA
NLP and large-scale behavioural data.
§ Education
2013 — 2015
UCLA
MSc, Computer Science — focus: Data Science & Machine Learning
Researcher, Complex Networks Lab
2009 — 2013
Punjab Engineering College
BE, Computer Science & Engineering
§ Leadership in numbers
Companies founded, teams led, systems shipped.
100+
people led across teams and countries
Engineering, design and AI teams across Switzerland, India, Poland and the US, at Amazon, Anamii, Vicara and thirty3.
55+
AI solutions shipped to production
~32 days average to pilot, with thirty3
10+
industries served
Finance · insurance · logistics · health · pharma · legal · fashion · retail · manufacturing · energy · climate tech
1M+
daily voice queries handled
NLP / Alexa systems built at Amazon Lab126
§ Signature engagements
Hands-on engagements.
E/01
AI Hub Switzerland
Co-founding a national, public-interest hub for responsible AI adoption, convening Swiss industry, research and policy.
E/02
Alexa Voice Help Platform — Amazon Lab126
Architected the Java/Coral backend and NLP interaction model serving millions of help queries daily across Echo, FireTV and Kindle.
E/03
thirty3 AI Practice
Designed thirty3's multi-agent reference architecture: orchestrator, retrieval, reasoning and critic agents inside the client perimeter. Stood up the AI & engineering hub in New Delhi and scaled the design + engineering hub in Warsaw. Clients span venture-backed startups and scale-ups, unicorns, SMEs and global corporates.
E/04
Anamii — Founder & CEO (exited to HereNow)
Built an AI-driven guided-wellness platform end to end with a distributed team across Switzerland, USA and India.
E/05
Cloud-Native Transformation — Credit Suisse
Led the architecture and developer-tooling stream that moved CS application teams onto Kubernetes, Istio and a modern Azure/GCP toolchain.
E/06
Vicara Infotech Group — scaled to 50+ engineers
Built the New Delhi engineering hub and brought cloud-native and big-data consulting to UBS, Credit Suisse, Julius Baer and Swiss fintechs.
§ Selected work with thirty3
55+ AI solutions, in production.
Regulatory & compliance copilots
Legal · Trade · Audit
Demand forecasting & predictive pricing
Retail · Supply chain
Internal knowledge agents
Enterprise · Pharma R&D
Customer intelligence & AI digital twins
Healthcare · Consumer research
Virtual try-on & recommendation systems
Fashion · E-commerce
§ Domains I'm fluent in
Where I operate.
AI / GenAI / Agents
Multi-agent architectures · RAG · responsible-AI frameworks · GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama · LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI.
Cloud & Data
AWS, Azure, GCP · Kubernetes, Terraform · Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Spark · Postgres, MongoDB.
Product & Delivery
AI operating models · CoE setup · MLOps & CI/CD · cross-border engineering teams · regulated-industry delivery.
§ Languages
- English — native
- Hindi — native
- German — elementary
§ Boards & advisory
- 01
thirty3
Partner & Board Member
- 02
AI Hub Switzerland
Co-initiator
- 03
HereNow
Advisor & shareholder (post-Anamii acquisition)
- 04
Ellexx · HEART · Malaica · SwissFoundations · StiftungSchweiz · early-stage AI startups
Advisor
§ Community involvement
- 01
Swisspreneur Podcast
Host (2 yrs)
- 02
Wine'n'Ventures
Co-lead & moderator
- 03
Women in Tech · Girls in Tech · Hello 50:50 · Impact Hub
Supporter & mentor