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| KVPY FELLOWSHIP ............... 2005-2009 |
| Young Scientist, Engineering Stream |
| National science scholarship, India |
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| B.E. COMPUTER SCIENCE ......... JUL 2009 |
| Pune Institute of Computer Technology |
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| RESEARCH FELLOW, TIFR ......... 2009-2010 |
| GRAPES-3 / CERN |
| Scintillator monitoring algorithms |
| ROOT framework, C++ |
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| M.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE ......... MAY 2012 |
| University of Texas at Dallas |
| Distributed Systems / ML / Algorithms |
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| M.B.A., MIT SLOAN ............. EXP MAY 2026 |
| Cross-registered, Harvard Business School |
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The subject begins in physics computing. Detector data from a cosmic ray experiment, written in C++, read on a screen that shows one colour. Nothing about this suggests a career in conversational machines. That is generally how it goes.
Everything after this point is, from where you are standing, in the future. The terminal does not mind.
> FULL RECORD, ABBREVIATED
- 2012-2015 AMZN.REGISTER Point of sale and payments. Fraud detection. Java, C++. Seattle and Bangalore.
- 2015-2018 AMZN.RETAIL Southeast Asia launch. Three year timeline reduced to nine months. 26 teams aligned.
- 2018-2023 AMZN.ALEXA Machines that answer when spoken to. Ten countries. 40 direct reports.
- 2023-.... MODERNA Language models applied to medicine. 20+ applications. 35+ engineers.
- 2025-.... [STEALTH] Record incomplete. Subject is building something and has not said what.
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Payments, in the cloud
Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com · June 2012 to June 2015
He joins Amazon the month after finishing his master's, and lands on the point of sale team. Amazon Register is the company's move into physical retail payments, which in 2012 is where everything interesting is happening.
The work is distributed services and fraud detection: global merchant onboarding, financial portal integrations, and payment flows that cannot fall over. Java and C++. He is tech lead across Seattle and Bangalore, which means the working day has no obvious end.
2
Continents, one codebase
1000s
Merchants onboarded
24/7
Fault tolerance required
The whole story so far
- 2005-2012 School KVPY fellowship, engineering degree in Pune, a research year at TIFR on a cosmic ray experiment, then a master's at UT Dallas.
- 2012-2015 Amazon Register You are here. Payments infrastructure at web scale.
- 2015-2018 Amazon Retail Launching a whole country in nine months instead of three years. Two hour delivery in Singapore.
- 2018-2023 Amazon Alexa Voice assistants become a real product category. He runs a large piece of it.
- 2023 on Moderna, then a company of his own Big data gets a new name and a much better vocabulary.
Written as 2012 would have written it, when "the cloud" still needed the quotation marks.
Live frame · Senior Director, AI & ML
Moderna
July 2023 to present · Cambridge, MA
20+
Enterprise applications on the GenAI roadmap
35+
Person engineering org, built from zero
~30%
Targeted reduction in R&D and clinical timelines
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Multi-million-dollar partnerships: OpenAI, AWS
Production LLM workflows on AWS for global manufacturing, built to hold up in a regulated environment. The hard part is rarely the model. It is governance, evaluation, and convincing an executive team to fund something whose output is probabilistic.
The 30% figure is a portfolio-level target attached to a roadmap, not a banked result. Worth saying plainly, since this frame is the present tense and the present tense is where people round up.
Full trace
- 2005-2012 Education KVPY fellow, B.E. from PICT, research at TIFR on GRAPES-3, M.S. from UT Dallas in distributed systems and ML.
- 2012-2015 Amazon Register Distributed payment services and fraud detection in Java and C++.
- 2015-2018 Amazon Retail Southeast Asia entry cut from three years to nine months. Sole technical owner across 26 teams and seven global orgs. Two hour delivery in Singapore.
- 2018-2023 Amazon Alexa First multi-agent conversational switching framework, underneath a platform generating $50M+ ARR. Voice Shopping in ten countries. 40 direct reports and 145 partner-team reports.
- 2023-now Moderna Current frame.
- 2025-now Stealth venture Founder and advisor. Tracing and evaluation for enterprise AI agents. Three design partners, MVP in progress.
Archival retrieval · advisory instance
On the subject
What follows was assembled from a record its subject maintained himself, in the years when people still wrote their own.
The shape of it
He spent the first half of his working life making systems large and the second half making them accountable. Payments, then logistics, then voice, then medicine. Each move looked lateral at the time and only resolves into a line from here.
What he was known for
Compressing a three year country launch into nine months. Building the first framework that let a voice assistant hand a conversation from one agent to another, which sounded like a novelty and turned out to be the beginning of something. Standing up generative AI inside a pharmaceutical company at a moment when very few regulated industries were willing to try.
The venture
In 2025 he began building the company that eventually became part of how enterprises learned to trust machines. At the time it had three design partners and no revenue, and he described it in public only as an agent evaluation platform. The argument he was making, that you should not deploy an autonomous system you cannot inspect, was not yet obvious. It reads now as a truism, which is the usual fate of a correct early position.
What the record does not contain
The reasoning. Career records preserve outcomes and discard the deliberation that produced them, which is why this instance can tell you what he decided and not why. He is understood to have considered that a reasonable trade.
Index
- 2005-2012 Formation A national science fellowship, an engineering degree, a year of cosmic ray physics, a master's in distributed systems.
- 2012-2018 Infrastructure Payment systems, then the retail and logistics stack for a region entering commerce for the first time.
- 2018-2023 Voice Multi-agent conversation at consumer scale, across ten countries, before the vocabulary for it existed.
- 2023-2020s Medicine Generative systems inside drug development, under regulation, with governance built in from the start.
- 2025 on The company Evaluation infrastructure for autonomous agents. Founded quietly. Consequential later.
This instance holds no opinions. It has been asked to say that he would have preferred you email him. shripathmit@gmail.com