Program Leadership · AI Research
AI program leader, building real systems and publishing the research.
I turn ambiguity into shipped products and peer-reviewed research — across AI, platforms, and emerging tech. Outcome-driven and calmly decisive.
6 published AI papers (arXiv, NeurIPS 2026, TMLR) on LLM systems — +21.76% cross-lingual fusion gain.
Shipped production AI: a live storytelling platform and an offline, on-device clinical-triage assistant.
Led $25M+ multi-state SaaS programs across 6 states; 99.99% uptime migrating to AWS.
Experience
AI research, shipped products, and enterprise delivery.
Murai Labs
Founder & AI Researcher
2025 — Present
Austin, TX
- Authored six AI research papers (arXiv, NeurIPS 2026, TMLR) on large-language-model systems — spanning direct Apple Neural Engine programming, cooperative model training, multi-model orchestration, evolutionary mixture-of-LoRA fine-tuning, and pre-registered cheap-baseline screening for evolutionary methods.
- Shipped production AI products end-to-end: StoryForge Kids, a live iOS + web personalized-storytelling platform, and Marunthagam, a Tamil-first clinical-triage assistant running a 5GB language model fully offline on an Android phone (0/12 missed emergencies, 100% safety-refusal on adversarial prompts).
- Delivered headline research results — +21.76% cross-lingual model-fusion gain (KALAVAI) and 8.5× Apple Neural Engine compilation speedup (Orion) — each reproducible from committed code and audit-tracked artifacts.
Procore Technologies
Enterprise Project Manager
Dec 2025–Present
Austin, TX (Remote)
- Manage enterprise project delivery for public sector and government clients.
- Lead cross-functional coordination across engineering, product, customer success, and compliance.
- Drive change management using SDLC methodology — zero disruption to government operations.
Aspira
Senior Project Manager, Program Management Office
2017 — 2025
Dallas, TX
- Led multi-year, multi-state modernization programs (Utah, Texas, Kansas, NJ, Alberta, Maryland) valued over $25M, delivering SaaS platforms for park reservations, licensing, and customer engagement.
- Directed enterprise API integrations connecting DMV, DCF, banking, and payment systems (NIC Pay) to core platforms, enabling real-time data exchange and supporting $40M+ revenue in year one.
- Led Aspira's enterprise migration from physical datacenters to AWS (EC2, S3, Redshift), partnering with DevOps, data, and security teams to modernize infrastructure, reduce costs by 30%, and achieve 99.99% uptime.
Selected Work
High-clarity case studies.
StoryForge Kids
Live personalized children's storytelling platform (iOS + web) with a multi-pass story engine and persistent character memory.
↳ Shipped end-to-end across iOS and web — a production AI product with real users, not a prototype.
Marunthagam
Tamil-first clinical-triage assistant running a 5GB language model fully offline on an Android phone for rural community-health workers.
↳ 0/12 missed emergencies; 100% safety-refusal on adversarial prompts. Submitted to the Gemma hackathon.
PINNAL
RNA-therapeutic candidate ranker that prioritizes antisense-oligo interventions for splice-altering variants using an ensemble of genomic foundation models (Evo 2, Borzoi, Enformer, ViennaRNA).
↳ Pre-alpha, demo-ready. Surfaced all 3 tiles of the clinically-validated SMN2 ISS-N1 site in its top 10 (enrichment@10 4.10 vs 0.00 for Evo 2 used as a ranker) in a pre-registered falsification test.
KALAVAI
Cooperative LLM-training protocol that fuses independently trained specialists and predicts the fusion gain before any compute is spent.
↳ +21.76% cross-lingual gain; submitted to NeurIPS 2026 with a full reproducibility audit trail.
Multi-State SaaS Platform
Enterprise park reservation and licensing system deployed across Utah, Texas, Kansas, NJ, Alberta, and Maryland.
↳ $25M program delivered on time; zero disruption to state government operations across 6 jurisdictions.
Enterprise Cloud Migration
AWS migration (EC2, S3, Redshift) reducing costs 30% with 99.99% uptime.
↳ 30% infrastructure cost reduction; 99.99% uptime maintained post-cutover.
AI Conversational Chatbot
Tier-1 customer-interaction automation deployed at enterprise scale.
↳ 35% reduction in call volume; $250K+ in annual support cost savings.
Tech Stack
Tools I use to ship.