akarsh.

Work

Systems I've designed, built, and pressure-tested.

Independent Work

AI Architecture Audit

Ongoing

Leading Logistics Company

AI Systems Audit - Scale & Reliability

Engaged to audit AI architecture across agentic workflows and backend systems for one of India's leading logistics companies. Scope: system design review, scalability assessment, and prioritized remediation roadmap.

Fractional CTO

2024

Lead Marketplace (Seed Stage)

Architecture & Engineering Foundation

Scoped and delivered: architecture review, scalability planning, security baseline, engineering process from scratch. Delivered hiring plan and placement of first senior engineer.

Security Research

2024

Independent

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure

Identified a 7-stage attack chain in a production AI product: prompt injection escalating to cloud infrastructure access. Responsibly disclosed to the vendor. Published methodology as a 3-part series.

Professional Experience

Founding Engineer

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CoreWorks AI

Oct 2025 – Present

Sr. Software Engineer + Tech Lead

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Blitz

Jun 2022 – Oct 2025

Co-Founder

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Poli

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022

Data Scientist

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App Orchid

May 2020 – Feb 2022

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

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IIT Kanpur

2016 – 2020

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