Senior AI EngineerEx-Tech Lead

Rohit Kushwaha

I build software products end to end — the interface, the distributed backend, the AI inside it and the infrastructure it runs on. A former Tech Lead who turns business problems into systems that ship.

Portrait of Rohit Kushwaha
Pune, India · IST
Currently Senior AI Engineer Search and model-serving platforms in production. Previously Tech Lead Owned full-stack products, clients and the team. Speaking Google I/O Extended Kanpur AI agents with Google ADK, for 3,000+ developers. Open source OpenDynamicGGUF & Niyam An LLM quantisation optimiser and a hiring platform.

01 What I do

Idea to production, end to end

More about me
  1. 01

    Products end to end

    From the business problem to a launched, paying product.

  2. 02

    Distributed backends

    Services, event streams and caching built for real load.

  3. 03

    AI in production

    Agents, retrieval and fine-tuned models that actually ship.

  4. 04

    Speed & cost

    Faster systems and smaller bills — by measuring first.

  5. 05

    Cloud & reliability

    Automated infrastructure and zero-downtime releases.

  6. 06

    Leadership

    Clients, roadmaps, architecture calls and growing the team.

02 Open source

Things I've built

All projects

Open source · LLM inference

OpenDynamicGGUF

Dynamic per-tensor mixed-precision GGUF quantisation — for any model.

Measures how sensitive every tensor is to quantisation, then picks the bit-width for each one under your size or VRAM budget — and ships a reproducible recipe, not just a smaller file.

  • Every bit decision traced to a measured ΔKL-divergence probe.
  • Recipes that rebuild the exact GGUF file, bit for bit.
  • One pipeline for dense, MoE and SSM models, built on llama.cpp.

odg — recipe.yaml

$ odg quantize --model functiongemma:latest \
    --target-size 3.2GB

token_embd         → Q8_0   # pinned
attn_v    (all)    → Q6_K   # sensitive, small
attn_q/k  (early)  → Q5_K
ffn_gate  (mid)    → Q3_K   # large, robust
ffn_down  (all)    → Q4_K
output             → Q8_0   # pinned
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Status
Alpha
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • llama.cpp
  • GGUF
  • Hugging Face
  • KL-divergence

Open source · Full-stack SaaS

Niyam

An open-source applicant tracking system for modern hiring teams.

A multi-tenant ATS in the spirit of Greenhouse and Lever — pipelines, structured interviews, e-signatures and an audit trail, with AI screening that cut manual work by 90%.

  • Workspace isolation with account-level data boundaries.
  • Stage-triggered e-sign automation and a full audit trail.
  • FastAPI services with Celery workers, Redis and S3-compatible storage.

Hiring flow

  1. 01Kickoff
  2. 02Job published
  3. 03Applied
  4. 04Screening
  5. 05Interview loop
  6. 06Debrief
  7. 07Offer
  8. 08E-sign
  9. 09Hired
Language
Python · TypeScript
License
MIT
Status
Active
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Celery
  • MinIO
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • pgvector

03 Experience

Where I've worked

Full experience
  1. Senior AI Engineer at Academian Inc.

    Jun 2026 – Present

    Pune, India

    Distributed vector search, model serving and multilingual agent pipelines for enterprise products.

  2. Tech Lead at W3villa Technologies

    Feb 2023 – Jun 2026

    Noida, India

    Owned full-stack products for enterprise clients — HRMS, CRM and LMS — from architecture to delivery and the team.

04 Writing

Recent articles

All writing

05 Speaking

On stage

All talks
Rohit speaking on stage at the Alumni Talk Session, with the session poster projected behind him

Sep 2026 Alumni Talk Session

Why AI Matters for Your Career

Kanpur Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Back at my own college, as an alumnus of the 2021–23 MCA batch, to talk about where AI is really used in industry today and how students can build a career around it.

KIT students
Google I/O Extended Kanpur speaker card for Rohit Kushwaha's talk on building intelligent AI agents with Google ADK

Aug 2025 Google I/O Extended Kanpur · GDG Kanpur

Building Intelligent AI Agents with Google ADK

Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur

A session at Google I/O Extended Kanpur on building intelligent chatbots and AI agents with Generative AI — from first prototype to an assistant that holds up in production.

3,000+ developersEvent post

06 Milestones

Moments that mattered

All milestones

07 Learning

Watching & reading