STAFF / PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING • PLATFORM & AUTOMATION

I design platform foundations, automate repetitive workflows, and turn operational signals into clearer engineering decisions.

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Staff Software Engineer Toronto
Canadian citizen Work authorization: Canada • United States • India
India → Germany → Canada Aricent → Cisco → Intel → Siemens → KI Labs → Nokia
Scope 14+ years across India, Germany, and Canada
Current focus Platform automation, validation infrastructure, and operational intelligence
Evidence 6 documented projects across platforms, automation, and applied engineering

Projects

Selected Projects

Evidence of how I build for leverage: platforms, automation, and operational clarity.

Production system • Platform case study

Live

Evidence-First Engineering Knowledge System

A static publishing platform with grounded AI retrieval, automated release gates, and explicit trust boundaries.

Grounded retrieval, explicit trust boundaries, automated release checks, and a production deployment.

Workers D1 + Vectorize GitHub Actions
Try the live system → See architecture and controls →

Working software • Architecture case study

Live

PhotoSahi

A browser-based tool that simplifies passport and visa photo compliance with intelligent image processing.

100% browser-side image processing with no mandatory upload or backend.

JavaScript Canvas Image Processing
Try the live product ↗ See architecture and trade-offs →

Working software • Rules-based utility

Live

GTT Trigger Price Calculator

Prepare candidate buy and sell trigger prices for GTT orders in the Indian stock market.

Explicit trigger-distance and rounding rules with documented freshness limits for order preparation.

Python Streamlit Rules Engine
Try the live product ↗ See decisions and limits →
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Experience

Across global engineering teams

India

Aricent → Cisco

Germany

Intel → Siemens → KI Labs

Canada

Nokia

Insights

Engineering decisions you can reuse

Practical notes on reducing repeated work, choosing the right intervention, and preserving judgment where it matters.

AI-assisted engineering • 5 minute read •

Your agent's tests are the cheapest check you have. Don't make them the only one.

Five failures a passing test suite will not catch — and why four of them hold on their own while one quietly rots.

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AI-assisted engineering • 5 minute read •

A river can't be deterministic. Its banks can be.

The AI model is the river and your tests are the banks — you can't make the river predictable, only bounded.

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Technical article • 5 minute read •

Why am I still the message bus between my AI agents?

A durable governance pattern already fixes most of the shared-context problem — DogBuild is the local tool closing the rest: the actual handoff.

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