Sandeep (Udupi) S.

Co-Founder / CTO

Bengaluru, India

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
Bengaluru, India

Co-Founder / CTO

SaaSyAI

  • Co-founded SaaSyAI as an "AI Factory" - MicroSaaS and deeptech consultancy specializing in LLM-powered products and AI consulting services
  • Built Genspark, an AI-powered personalized learning platform with 95% of codebase generated using agentic AI tools (Cursor, Claude, GPT-4) in 5 months
  • Architected RAG pipeline using LangChain, vector databases, and custom retrieval strategies for context-aware content generation
  • Designed multi-agent AI system with specialized agents for content generation, MCQ creation, and pedagogical optimization
  • Developed n8n-based automation workflows for lead generation (Reddit monitoring), data processing, and customer engagement
  • Created frugal agentic development workflow enabling full-feature rollout in 1 day with part-time commitment
  • Consulted for clients on AI strategy, LLM integration, and prompt engineering best practices
Apr 2020 - May 2023
3 years 2 months
Bengaluru, India

Engineering Manager

Zeta

  • Led engineering for core accounting platform serving 5 countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Brazil, Italy, Spain) in fintech/banking domain
  • Managed team of 12+ engineers building Zeta Tachyon Suite for banks and financial institutions
  • Successfully delivered features for Sodexo multi-country launches
  • Organized 60-Day-Challenge with 4 engineers to improve API performance, reduced P95 to 150ms and P99 to 300ms
  • Reduced quarterly incident count by 60% through systematic IAI planning and delivery
May 2019 - Apr 2020
1 year
Bengaluru, India

Lead / Principal Engineer

Zeta

  • Developed Calendar Management feature for core accounting platform used by financial institutions
  • Built multi-tenant configuration management service for tenant-specific resources and properties
  • Led team of 3 engineers delivering real-time transaction policy enforcement, database isolation, table partitioning
  • Drove CTO-office initiatives: cost optimization, performance improvements, library upgrades
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
11 months
Bengaluru, India

Engineering Manager

Practo

  • Led 10 engineers building India’s most-used practice management software in healthcare domain
  • Integrated Salesforce for churn control and subscription management
  • Onboarded enterprise hospitals: CareFit, Max, Sunshine, Virinchi
  • Reduced infrastructure cost by 10-20% and testing effort by 5x through automation
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime for Ray and Qikwell services
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
2 years 1 month
Bengaluru, India

Lead Software Engineer

Practo

  • Built Ray Connect IVR solution (Kookoo/Exotel integration) for appointment booking
  • Led adoption team: increased Ray Calendar adoption to 70%, Prescription module usage by 2.5x through recommendation system
  • Reduced response time by 50% for key API transactions
  • Implemented security fixes (IDOR, DDoS prevention)
May 2015 - Apr 2016
1 year
Bengaluru, India

Senior Software Engineer

Practo

  • Built EMR capabilities: Growth Charts (IAP/WHO), Prescription Templates, Controlled Drugs Support
  • Automated API generation via Twigs in Symfony
  • Integrated Totango for customer success and churn reduction
Jun 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 7 months
Seattle, United States

Software Development Engineer, EC2 Networking

Amazon.com

  • Maintained and developed EC2 Firewall features managing security groups for EC2 instances
  • Implemented unit and automated tests in Python using Amazon’s internal framework
  • Developed diagnostics for EC2 Firewall for statistics gathering and behavior analysis
May 2012 - Aug 2012
4 months
Seattle, United States

Software Development Engineer Intern, AWS Team

Amazon.com

  • Built project management application using Java, JSP, Struts with @task REST APIs for TPMs
Sep 2008 - May 2011
2 years 9 months
Bengaluru, India

Systems Engineer, TCS-Apple account

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

  • Developed web applications using Java, JSP, Struts with Google Maps API integration
  • Built RESTful web services using Jersey (JAX-RS)
  • Designed internal tools (Requirement Tracker) using JSP, Servlets, JExcel API

Summary

AI Consultant & Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience building production systems across fintech, healthcare, and cloud domains. Co-founder/CTO at SaaSyAI, specializing in LLM integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and agentic AI development workflows. Led engineering teams at Amazon, Zeta, and Practo, delivering scalable products to millions across five countries. Deep expertise in AI strategy, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, and automation workflows. Available for part-time or contract AI consulting.

Languages

English
Advanced
Hindi
Advanced
Kannada
Advanced
Sanskrit
Intermediate
Japanese
Elementary

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

MS in Computer Science · Computer Science · Richardson, United States · 3.485

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE in Computer Science · Computer Science · India · 72.78%

Certifications & licenses

Agentic AI Development (Advanced)

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