Sid

Experience

Building where technology meets consequence

Jet engines, civil structures, contact tracing, and payment rails — systems where being approximately right is the same as being wrong.

2025 — present

CTO

Chimère

Built the stack end to end: the settlement rails that move a US invoice into an Indian bank account in 20 seconds, the compliance engine that generates purpose codes and FIRA automatically, and the agent-native layer that lets an AI pay through the same endpoint a person uses.

  • Cross-border settlement
  • Automated RBI compliance
  • Agent-native rails
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2024 — present

Founder

Neuralabs

Decentralised AI infrastructure: an identity for AI held on-chain, with the workflows, models, data, infrastructure and access to each represented as tokens. Deliberately ambitious and early — five hackathon wins in ten months came out of building it.

  • Five hackathon wins
  • $15,000 Coinbase grant
  • On-chain AI identity
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Jul 2021 — Jan 2024

Senior Capabilities & Insights Analytics Analyst

McKinsey & Company — QuantumBlack

Chennai → Gurugram, India

Two and a half years of AI and analytics across banking, telecom, FMCG, IT infrastructure and heavy engineering, delivered from India to clients in APAC, Europe, the US and the Middle East. The defining piece was the firm's first AI framework for civil structure optimisation: LLM extraction turning unstructured engineering and cost data into a clean parameter space, then a genetic algorithm searching it under physics constraints.

  • La Crème de la Crème
  • LLMs + evolutionary search
  • Data pipelines & MLOps
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Mar — Jul 2021

Digital Technology Intern — Engine Analytics

GE Aviation

JFWTC, Bangalore, India

Built IPAF, the deep-learning framework predicting aircraft engine failure and degradation, and improved its detection counterpart IDAF — 5× faster, F1 up around 9%, with fewer false negatives. Tens of terabytes across millions of flights, re-engineered to run in hours instead of days on 70–80% less storage.

  • Ensembles & LSTMs
  • Automated retraining
  • Tens of TB of sensor data
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From 2020

Co-founder & CEO

DataNest Ventures

India

Founded the company around CoviFight, a contact-tracing system built during the 2020 lockdown to raise detection rates without asking anyone to surrender their identity. Led 12 developers as tech lead and Scrum Master while writing the ML models and database schema, and secured a grant from The Meta Group.

  • 12 engineers
  • 3× over DP-3T
  • 50+ partners across Europe
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Recognition

A few markers along the way

25

Best AI Agent using AWS & Akash — 1st prize and a $15,000 grant

Coinbase · 2025

20

2nd of 2,000+ teams — Real-time Communication and Prevention

EU vs Virus, European Commission · 2020

20

Top 15 Student Innovators in India

SAMADHAN Challenge, MHRD · 2020

22

La Crème de la Crème — global innovation and client impact

QuantumBlack, McKinsey & Company · 2022

24

Metagraph Hackathon — 5th place and Most Creative Use Case

Constellation Network · 2024

24

QuickNode Winner

QuickNode · 2024

24

Naabathon Winner

Star Atlas, Solana · 2024

24

Awesome ICP

Internet Computer · 2024

20

The Wolfram Award — COVID-19 Hack Challenge

Wolfram Research · 2020

20

Student Achievers Award, two years running

Chancellor's Office, VIT · 2020 & 2021

20

The Resiliency Challenge — 2nd position

Boston University · 2020

20

The Global Hack — Top 6, Crisis Response

Garage48 · 2020