Roles, builds, and the toolbox behind them.
The CV with marginalia. Each entry has a footnote. Available as PDF for the more conventional version.
for the more traditional CV, download here
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shubz@torus~/work%cat ./profile.md# enough room for complete sentences
§01 · PROFILEthe long version · about four minutes
Most of my work has involved taking a research-shaped problem and making it behave in production. I am a founding engineer at Torus, in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, where I build agentic engineering systems for physical infrastructure. Alongside that job, I research artificial intelligence safety independently, with funding through grants and awards from BlueDot Impact, the Cosmos Institute and FIRE. Before Torus I was Orion's first engineering hire and later a founding engineer, building the geospatial data and machine-learning backbone for a company that raised $3.5 million in November 2025.
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BangalorePune · FLAMEOxfordLondon
Sep 2026 —
Cosmos Grantee · Cosmos InstituteresearchAI/ML
Awarded a Cosmos Grant by the Cosmos Institute and FIRE, in the Institute's largest cohort to date (80 grantees), under the AI for Truth-Seeking track — for DissentCheck, a toolkit and experimental framework for studying and testing consensus dynamics in AI committees.
AI for Truth-Seeking · with FIRE
Jul 2026 —
Founding Engineer · TorusengineeringAI/ML
Agentic engineering for physical infrastructure.
YC S26
Jul 2026 —
Fellowship Ambassador · Thinking About ThinkingoutreachcommunityAI/ML
Selected by invitation and review as an ambassador for Thinking About Thinking — a non-profit bringing people together across AI, neuroscience, mathematics and scientific discovery to shape the conversation about intelligence and the future of AI.
global network
Jun 2026 —
Technical AI Safety · BlueDotstudyAI/ML
Cohort course — mechanistic interpretability, RLHF, evaluations, AI control, scalable oversight.
BlueDot Impact
Jun 2026
Certified · Hugging Face AI Agents coursestudyAI/ML
Completed the Hugging Face Agents course — building, evaluating and deploying LLM agents. Two certificates earned.
two certificates
2026 —
Google Cybersecurity Certificatestudyengineering
A more formal grounding in security, alongside the safety work.
in progress
Apr 2026 —
AI Researcher · IndependentresearchAI/ML
AI safety, alignment, and multi-agent systems — independently, funded by BlueDot's grants programme, alongside Torus.
Funded by BDI Grants · Remote
Apr — Jun 2026
AGI Strategy cohort · BlueDotstudyAI/ML
Pre-reading and weekly seminars on AGI strategy, alignment, and frontier-AI policy. Completed June 2026.
BlueDot Impact
Jun 2026 —
Member · Institute of Mathematics and its Applicationsstudycommunity
Member of the UK's professional body for mathematics and its applications.
UK
Feb 2026
Elected MInstP · Institute of PhysicsstudyAI/MLcommunity
Member of the UK's professional body for physics.
London
Aug 2025
Best Paper · IEEE ICCUBEA-2025studyAI/ML
Flipkart–Walmart merger NLP. 1,240 submissions, 220 accepted, one Best Paper. With Prof. Chakraborty.
co-author
2025 —
STEM Ambassador · InnovateHeroutreachcommunity
200+ students spoken to across UK schools about careers in tech; named an InnovateHer Ambassador for the year. Recent talks at the University of Liverpool Maths School and DACA London. DBS-checked.
UK schools
2025 —
Mentor · Stemmettesoutreachcommunity
Workshops, panels and 1:1s for girls and non-binary young people moving toward engineering, maths and CS.
STEM-ed outreach
2025 —
Science Communicator · I'm a Scientistoutreachcommunity
Answering school students' science questions live — CS and maths.
public engagement
2025 —
Member · MLOps Community Londonengineeringcommunity
Local chapter of the global MLOps community — talks and meetups on running ML in production.
London
2025 —
OSS maintainer · Taylor Swift rec engine, revampedengineeringAI/ML
Rebuilt the original R/Shiny rec engine in Python + TypeScript. Six independent ML engines running in parallel — Sentence-BERT on lyrics, a VAE compressing Spotify audio features to 16 dimensions, Node2Vec graph embeddings, neural collaborative filtering, contrastive self-supervised learning, and a knowledge graph over 561 nodes. 801 songs, editorial bridges to 53 related artists. Recommendations in under 200ms. Live on Vercel.
open source · self-directed
Apr 2024 — Jun 2026
Founding Engineer · OrionengineeringAI/ML
Built geospatial intelligence infrastructure from scratch — data pipelines for high-volume multi-source streams, ML anomaly detection over the H3 spatial indexing layer, confidence-weighted signal fusion, and backend services in Python and Golang. One of the first two hires; joined as Data Engineer, became Data & ML Engineer in Nov 2024, then Founding Engineer. Rewrote the LLM-driven search system end-to-end — tool schemas, decision-tree system prompts, few-shot disambiguation, and output evaluation.
London
Oct 2023 —
Ambassador · Oxford Mathematical Instituteoutreachcommunity
Q&A panels and applicant support at the Mathematical Institute and Lady Margaret Hall.
Oxford · LMH
Oct 2023 —
Member · Oxford Womxn in Computer Scienceoutreachcommunity
Member and alum of OxWoCS — the department's community for women and non-binary computer scientists.
OxWoCS · Oxford
Jan — Sep 2024
IT Officer · Oxford FemTech Societyoutreachcommunityengineering
Built and ran the society's IT infrastructure.
Oxford
Sep 2023 — Jul 2024
MFoCS · Oxford · Lady Margaret HallstudyAI/MLcommunity
Thesis: automated immune-biomarker detection on multiplex IF tumour data. Modules: Geometric Deep Learning, Game Theory, Quantum Information, Category Theory.
Maths + CS
Sep 2023 · 1 mo
Machine Learning Researcher · FLAMEresearchAI/ML
Generative and reconstructive applications of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and associated algorithms.
Pune · contract
Jun — Sep 2023
ML Engineering Intern · NatterengineeringAI/ML
Content-moderation models (bullying, distress, spam) on social text, plus a user-matching recommender.
London
May 2023
BSc (Hons) CS · Dean's Roll · FLAMEstudyengineeringcommunity
Graduated with the Dean's Roll of Honour.
CGPA 8.53
Sep 2022 — May 2023
BSc Honours Thesis · GNSS water vapourstudyAI/ML
Estimated tropospheric water-vapour from GNSS signals with regression ML, beating linear baselines on accuracy and robustness.
FLAME · Prof. Gopalan
late 2022
OSS · Taylor Swift rec engine — original R/ShinyengineeringAI/ML
UBCF hybrid recommender in R — 10 separate audio-feature models (danceability, energy, acousticness, valence, tempo, loudness, popularity, speechiness, liveness, album membership) merged via recommenderlab's HybridRecommender. Visualisations break down why each song was chosen. Still live on shinyapps.io.
open source · FLAME final year
2022 — 2023
Founder + President · Dotslashoutreachcommunity
Founded and led a 10+ person team running tech events pulling 100+ attendees per session.
FLAME University
2022 — 2023
Vice-Captain · Student Counciloutreachcommunity
Automated allocation of six annual student awards with Python + Google Sheets API.
FLAME University
May — Jul 2022
Backend Developer Intern · JobsForHerengineering
User flows in Flask, PostgreSQL, and scalable AWS deploys (EC2, S3, load balancers, CloudWatch, SNS).
Bangalore
2022
OSS · IoT weather bot · layered cipherengineering
Arduino/ESP8266 temperature and humidity monitor — RGB status LEDs, buzzer, servo fan, ThingSpeak cloud logging with rate-aware uploads every 7 loop iterations. And a four-layer Python cipher (scatter → wheel-spin → binary transform → matrix + ASCII) with SHA-256 tamper detection and 2,000+ round-trip tests, rooted in a linear-algebra module.
open source · FLAME
Jan — Aug 2022
Research Intern · Prof. Valadi, FLAMEresearchAI/ML
Improved the JAYA optimiser (size-penalised fitness, elitism) for protein function ID. Poster PP-28 at INBIX'22.
Bioinformatics
Oct 2021 — Apr 2022
Data Analyst · Centre for Knowledge AlternativesresearchengineeringAI/ML
Cultural mapping of Kolhapur for the Discover India Project — government datasets, Tableau. Led a five-person team.
Pune
Aug 2021 — Jan 2022
Research Intern · Prof. Gopalan, FLAMEresearchAI/MLengineering
Derived cloud information from INSAT-3D satellite data — thresholding clear-sky vs cloudy pixels with NumPy, SciPy, PyHDF, NetCDF.
Atmospheric ML
Jun — Sep 2021
Teaching + Fundraising · iVolunteeroutreachcommunity
Planned maths and science course material for grades 3–8, and built teaching material for the teachers delivering it. Raised over ₹40,000 for Covid relief in India.
India
Jun — Aug 2021
Blogging Volunteer · Swapnopuronoutreachcommunity
Wrote on education and the environment for a welfare society working on child education, child protection, literacy and women's employment.
welfare society
Jul 2020 — Jan 2023
Founder · PrintedCraftoutreachcommunity
Personalised-printing business — Python connector to a cloud product DB, Google + Facebook Ads, 100+ designs.
Bangalore
Jun — Dec 2020
Co-founder · UnisphereCooutreachcommunity
Platform for the undergrad-application process — mentors from 50+ universities, 200+ attendees per session.
Hyderabad