Hello World

I am Venkatesh,
I build software
that scales.

Venkatesh R

About

Currently building Bluink's AI Gateway — infrastructure that lets LLM agents securely discover and call enterprise APIs. Before this, I spent just over a year as the primary AI engineer at Saptang Labs, building ML inference pipelines, embedding search, and transformer-based NLP services for government intelligence platforms. I also spend time on independent work: GLOF prediction from satellite imagery, quantum circuits for intrusion detection, real-time fact-checking on live broadcasts. Most of these were hackathon entries that ended up winning.

GitHub Resume

Expertise

  • Transformers & LLM Serving
  • RLHF & Alignment
  • Computer Vision
  • ZK-SNARKs & Proof Systems
  • Distributed Inference
  • Vector Search & Retrieval

Experience

Bluink Fintech OPC Pvt Ltd

Founder & AI Infrastructure Engineer

August 2023 - Present

DIPP-registered fintech company (DIPP-143482). Building an AI Gateway that turns REST APIs into agent-native interfaces — MCP, OAuth, semantic API discovery, and intelligent tool routing so agents like Claude, GPT, Cursor, and Windsurf can securely discover and call enterprise APIs.

Saptang Labs, Chennai

AI Engineer (Consultant)

June 2025 - July 2026

Sole engineer on Altair, a forensic intelligence platform (JWT gateway, 5 FastAPI services, Celery workers, React frontend, 5-database polyglot persistence) built zero to production. Also built the ML layer for Coastal Surveillance — a 5-service, 7-database multimodal platform with face recognition (InsightFace, DBSCAN clustering, Qdrant), object detection (Florence-2), and multilingual OCR across 14 languages. Shipped Nucleus, 11 transformer-based NLP packages (entity extraction, sentiment, translation) served via Gemma 3 12B on vLLM/Ollama, and a LangGraph report-generation agent that cut turnaround from days to ~25 minutes.

Google Student Developer Clubs, IIT Madras

Machine Learning Engineer (Part-time)

March 2024 - August 2024

Built supervised ML models end-to-end — Linear/Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, KNN, SVM, XGBoost — covering preprocessing, feature engineering, cross-validation, and hyperparameter tuning.

Education

IGNOU

MBA Financial Management

2026 - 2028

Building a foundation in corporate finance, investment analysis, financial markets, and risk management — complementing the engineering background for startup economics and capital allocation decisions.

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

B.Tech Biotechnology

November 2022 - April 2026

Studied biotechnology — genomics, proteomics, metabolic pathways. Taught myself systems programming, ML, and cryptography alongside. Most applied experience comes from production work at Saptang Labs and the independent projects listed below.

Certifications

CS50 AI (Cambridge) · IIT Kanpur · IIT Roorkee

2023

CS50 AI from Cambridge. Economics of Banking & Finance Markets and Operations & Supply Chain Management, both from IIT Kanpur. International Trade from IIT Roorkee.

Recognition

Cyber Security Innovation Challenge 1.0 Winner — Rs 10,00,000

Xylem — privacy-preserving KYC built on zk-SNARKs. Computes eligibility predicates on-device using Aadhaar-based verifiable credentials, emitting concise Boolean attestations with zero PII exposure. DPDP Act aligned. Won as Team Eigen.

PIB Press Release → Cyber Security Innovation Challenge 1.0 — Team Eigen
Hedera Hello Future: Apex Hackathon 3rd Place — $8,000 (DeFi Track)

Lamina — autonomous AI agent managing the full lifecycle of tokenized real-world assets on Hedera. A natural language command tokenizes a bond; the agent handles KYC/OFAC compliance, coupon distribution, NAV updates, regulatory reporting, and maturity settlement autonomously.

Hedera Announcement → Hedera Hello Future Apex Hackathon — Lamina
C-DAC HimaShield Grand Challenge 2025 Winner — Rs 5,00,000

Glofsense — GLOF prediction using Sentinel-1 SAR, LSTM for temporal patterns, XGBoost for risk scoring, ESP32 sensors for ground truth. Covered by PIB.

PIB Press Release → C-DAC HimaShield 2025
NFSU Forensic Hackathon 2023 Winner — Rs 5,00,000

Entity extraction and cross-source linking tool built at NFSU Gandhinagar. Extracts entities from documents and conversation transcripts, then resolves connections across sources.

NFSU Coverage → NFSU Forensic Hackathon 2023
NFSU Forensic Hackathon 2025 Winner — Rs 1,00,000

Nirnay — flags misinformation in live TV/radio. FFMPEG capture, Whisper transcription, DistilBERT claim extraction, Fact Check API verification.

AIFSC Hackathon → NFSU Forensic Hackathon 2025 — Nirnay
Indian Army Terrier Cyber Quest 2025 3rd Prize — QML Threat Detection

Eigencurve — quantum-classical IDS. 4-qubit VQC (PennyLane) vs XGBoost/LightGBM on NetFlow data, with VirusTotal for IOC enrichment.

PIB Press Release → Indian Army Terrier Cyber Quest 2025

Get In Touch

If you want to talk about AI, ML, or cryptography — reach out.