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Shlok Sawant

Experience

Roles, most recent first.

  1. skitre.ai

    Speech-assessment platform for students. IIT Madras partner, live in 100+ colleges across India plus schools.

    AI Engineer, Founding Team

    May 2025 – Present

    • Own production speech AI — recognition, pronunciation assessment, and conversational analysis.
    • Built an AI video-interview agent: a face-rendered recruiter that runs mock interviews, gives feedback, and helps students learn.
    • Architected low-latency cloud model serving, and own the ML lifecycle from training and evals through deployment.
    • Ship interactive AI features from concept to production with product, backend, and research.

    AI Consultant

    Nov 2024 – Jun 2025

    • Led the platform backend — REST APIs, microservices, and cloud infra — and built real-time speech-feedback features.
  2. Independent

    Contract work as an independent AI and full-stack engineer.

    • Setoo: a voice agent for BU Bhandari, a Maruti Suzuki service dealer, that calls customers when cars are ready, about add-on services, and to handle delivery complaints — 800–1,200 calls a day. Since expanded to Vani Connect.
    • AgriTech web platform. Scalable, zero-inventory grocery procurement and distribution, simplifying the farm-to-vendor supply chain so produce stays fresh, wastage drops, and margins improve.
    • FinTech AI product. Financial planning and forecasting for enterprise leaders — revenue, costs, profitability, and cash flow — turning complex Excel workflows into a web app.
    • EdTech AI product. Privacy-first platform for universities and professors to use AI in teaching without compromising data security, intellectual property, or institutional policies.
    • Sustainability web platform. Helps brands comply with upcoming EU rules mandating Digital Product Passports for consumer products, connecting compliance, brand transparency, and consumer trust.
    • AI voice bot for Natsoft, a US enterprise with 2,000+ employees. End-to-end platform for recruitment, insurance, sales, and customer support.
    • Real-time STT/TTS on Plivo and WebSockets, sub-2s response time, about 5,000 calls a month, ~₹1.5–2 a minute, ~40 hours a week of recruiter time saved.
    • Calls candidates after offer acceptance to explain next steps and answer questions. Dialogue tuned for natural conversations, with production config in AWS SSM.
  3. Birdvision Consulting

    Software Engineer

    Apr 2022 – Jan 2024

    • Led backend architecture for Bconnect, a bulk-messaging platform used by Bridgestone, ITC, Ashirwad, and Coca-Cola.
    • Designed a unified WhatsApp Business API layer across Business Solution Providers for those clients.
  4. Pretty Recon

    Python Developer

    Jun 2021 – Apr 2022

    • Python security-automation tooling for bug hunters.