I started my career as one of the first engineers at a small firm in Pune, sourcing hardware, designing the network, and building production infrastructure from scratch. That experience of building from nothing shaped how I work: understand the foundation before you touch the surface, and never call something done until you can prove it holds.
Over the past twenty years I’ve worked across the full stack of platform engineering: build-and-release systems, carrier-grade private cloud, and Kubernetes fleets serving hundreds of microservices across global datacenters. At Viavi Solutions I serve as the primary cloud and platform architect for telecom systems deployed with major operators across multiple continents. I’ve shipped AI tools now part of the Viavi AI Assistant product range, led teams spanning multiple time zones, and built the infrastructure automation that turns slow, error-prone release cycles into something a team can actually rely on. When something breaks in production, I’m the escalation lead.
Working deep in AI platforms eventually crystallized a question I had been circling for years: when a model produces an output, what does it actually mean for the work to be done? Not that a pipeline succeeded or a test passed. Done in the sense that you’d stake your name on it. A 2026 paper I published explored one edge of that question, asking whether quantum-optimization can find routing solutions across a multi-agent LLM cascade that classical greedy approaches miss.
The open-source work below is the engineering answer to the same question. The Verel organism and its standalone companions are built on one conviction: nothing compounds until a grader returns a verdict.
Publications
2026
VANTAGE: AI Security Observability, Blast Radius, and Guarded Mitigation
Technical Design Document v1.0 · Zenodo, August 2026
2026
VR Time Travel: A Personal Nostalgia Engine with Real-Time AI Scene Correction
Zenodo, July 2026
2026
Attested Test Selection with a Verifiable Confidence Bound
Zenodo, July 2026
2026
Quantum-Enhanced LLM Cascade Routing: A QAOA Approach to Cost-Optimal Model Selection in Multi-Agent Systems
Preprints.org (MDPI AG), April 2026
2026
Grounded Cognitive Architecture for Enterprise AI Agents: Eliminating Hallucination via Mandatory Tool Execution at Scale
Zenodo, March 2026
Software
2026
latenzy: per-model LLM latency monitoring
Software release v0.2.0 · Zenodo, August 2026
2026
assaylab: validation intelligence for CI
Software release v0.3.0 · Zenodo, July 2026