Som Pande: engineer, builder

AI engineer

About

Hey,
I’m Som.

AI engineer by profession, AI nerd by choice.

Most days I’m building AI systems that actually hold up.

The rest of the time I’m designing websites that go a little extra (yes, including this one)…

…or shipping side projects that started as a “what if.”

Engineer by training. Builder by habit.

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01

Engineer

AI systems that hold up in production.

Workflow automation

Retired a paid platform. Kept every workflow.

Replaced a paid automation platform with a Python and OpenAI system that maps each workflow as a graph, cutting LLM calls by 40% without losing accuracy.

150+
workflows
migrated
0
licence
cost
−40%
LLM API
calls

Also shipped

Two quick wins

Data at scale

Millionsof data points

Social posts, cleaned and scored.

A pipeline that extracts and preprocesses data across social media platforms, sharpening sentiment-analysis accuracy and speed.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • Data pipelines

Production backend

90%test coverage

APIs built to be trusted.

Modular FastAPI services for a supply-chain platform, tested end to end with Pytest.

  • FastAPI
  • Pytest
  • REST APIs

Teaching

Then passes it on.

Forty minds came in curious and left as builders, now quietly reshaping how their teams think, decide and deliver.

  • 40 minds
  • 2 programs
  • Python → LLMOps

Engineering is half the job. The other half is shipping.

02 / Builder →

02

Builder

Off the clock, still building.

Personal projects: things people hear, use and talk to.

HRX · AI hiring platform

Twelve agents. One hiring decision. Zero blind trust.

HRX homepage: Automate your hiring, with a candidate match card
  1. 01

    Specialists in parallel

    One agent reads the résumé; three check role fit, GitHub and the web, and skills at once; a verdict agent weighs it all.

  2. 02

    An interview that adapts

    Topics planned per candidate, tested through conversation (voice or text) or live coding, with difficulty shifting on every answer.

  3. 03

    Critics that check the graders

    Two adversarial agents audit every grade and the final report before a human sees it.

Built on a custom agent engine, not a framework.

VoiceAI

Any document, retold as something worth listening to.

An LLM rewrites the page into a spoken script, then a voice brings it to life: one narrator or two hosts, in any of twelve tones.

  • 4 formats
  • 12 tones
  • 3 lengths
  • 2 voices max

0:00 / 0:59 · Documentary · George

Voice agents

Picks up every call. Books the meeting. Knows when to hand over.

Phone agents qualify leads and answer questions; chat and email agents cover the rest, and meetings land straight in the calendar.

100+
leads handled
65%
of inquiries resolved without a human
  • Retell
  • ElevenLabs
  • Twilio
  • n8n
  • Calendly

San Francisco AI startup

Lending a steady hand to a young idea.

Shaping the thinking behind an early-stage AI product, and helping bring it to life.

Role
AI Advisor & Contributor
Team
Early-stage startup
Based in
San Francisco
Year
2026

ExperienceTime flies. Here’s where it stopped.

Experience

  1. 2019

    B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

    Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence · 2019 – 2023

  2. 2023

    Graduated

    B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering · Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence

  3. 2024

    AI Engineer · KPMG Lighthouse

    Workflow automation, data pipelines and production APIs · 2024 – 2025

    See 01 Engineer ↑

  4. 2025

    Associate AI Engineer · PwC IDAC

    AI training programs for client teams · 2025 – present

    See 01 Engineer ↑

  5. 2026

    AI Advisor & Contributor · San Francisco AI startup

    Early-stage AI product · 2026

  6. Now

    Current role

    • 2025 – presentPwC IDACAssociate AI Engineer

    Microsoft Certified · Azure AI Engineer Associate

    Off the clock: All India Open badminton, state-level table tennis, a good book, a new city.

Contact

Got a “what if”? Let’s make it real.

Som Pande

AI Engineer

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