Raghu K
@rnandan94
AI engineer and co-founder building real-time, on-device computer vision systems for movement coaching.
What I'm looking for
I’ve worked on complex systems for 20+ years across CAD 3D geometry, identity management, AdTech, robotics, and full-stack product development. I take “the hard part” seriously—the problem itself—then build something that works, with the leverage of AI now.
Today I’m building AI-native products in sports and movement science. I apply pose estimation and eigenspace analysis to deliver biomechanical feedback that previously required a specialist, and I’m developing real-time, fully on-device 30fps pose estimation on Android for movement coaching across multiple domains, optimized for offline and low-resource environments.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Building an AI platform that delivers real-time movement coaching using on-device computer vision.
• Built real-time pose estimation system running at 30fps fully on-device (Android)
• Designed unified ML architecture supporting 7 domains (sports, fitness, dance, music)
• Enabled 500+ coached movements with 90%+ action recognition accuracy
• Developed first AI coaching system for Indian classical
Consultant
Dimaag AI
May 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Product development for an analytics platform, implementing interactive plotting and analytics workflows using Plotly and Python to support data-driven product features.
Consultant
Dimaag AI
May 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Developed analytics product features using Python and Plotly to support data visualisation and product workflows for the analytics platform.
Technical Co-founder
Sooper.AI
Apr 2020 - Present (6 years 3 months)
Led development of a gen.AI live social audio app that generates daily AI audio podcasts by summarizing site articles and built text-to-animation experiments; adapted technology into an investment-professional tool.
Technical Co-founder
Sooper.AI
Apr 2020 - Present (6 years 3 months)
Co-founded a generative-AI live social audio app that summarizes web articles into interactive daily audio podcasts and built text-to-animation prototypes; adapting the technology for a tool for investment professionals.
Consultant
Litecore
Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 6 months)
Developed a rapid-deployment IoT sensor network platform using ThingsBoard and custom web components for device management and data ingestion.
Consultant
Litecore
Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 6 months)
Built an IoT sports-entertainment real-time update system using Java and Kafka and developed a sensor-network deployment platform with ThingsBoard and custom web interfaces.
Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant
Mar 2014 - Present (12 years 4 months)
Provided software architecture and development services across advertising, analytics, NLP and edtech domains using stacks including AngularJS, Play Framework, Python, Elasticsearch and big-data tools.
Software Consulting Partner
Mindshots Pte Ltd
Mar 2014 - Present (12 years 4 months)
Worked with startups and scale-stage companies across AI, robotics, IoT, and distributed systems. Delivered projects including robot fleet control, IoT platforms with real-time analytics, Kafka/Flink messaging and analytics pipelines, and Hyperledger blockchain architecture for government use cases.
Independent Software Consultant
Independent Consultant
Mar 2014 - Present (12 years 4 months)
Provided software design and development consulting across mobile advertising, smart assistants, customer analytics and edtech using polyglot stacks including AngularJS, Python, Elasticsearch and big-data tooling.
Software Consulting Partner / Remote developer
Mar 2014 - Present (12 years 4 months)
Working with startups and scale-stage companies across AI, robotics, IoT, and distributed systems.
Selected impact:
• Designed robot fleet control system for autonomous industrial robots (Ati Motors)
• Architected IoT platforms for large-scale sensor networks and real-time analytics
• Built messaging and analytics systems using Kafka, Flink, and distributed pipelines
• Led blockchain architecture
Consultant
Saakisoft
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023 (7 months)
Developed cloud DevOps platform modules using Terraform to orchestrate AWS/Azure infrastructure lifecycle for long-running jobs, reducing infrastructure cost through automated provisioning and cleanup.
Consultant
Saakisoft
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023 (7 months)
Developed cloud DevOps platform modules using Terraform APIs to orchestrate AWS/Azure infrastructure, automating resource lifecycle to optimize costs for long-running jobs.
Consultant
Flexiana
Jul 2022 - Apr 2023 (9 months)
Contributed to open-source projects using Clojure and ClojureScript, improving codebases and delivering features for Flexiana's platform.
Consultant
Flexiana
Jul 2022 - Apr 2023 (9 months)
Contributed to open-source projects using Clojure and ClojureScript, improving codebases and delivering consulting services across functional web applications.
Principal Engineer
Ati Motors
Sep 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)
Designed and developed a robot fleet control system using Python, Svelte and D3 to manage fleet operations and visualizations for autonomous robots.
Principal Engineer
Ati Motors
Sep 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)
Designed and implemented a robot fleet control system using Python, Svelte and D3 to manage orchestration, telemetry and visualization for autonomous robots.
Consultant
Gray Consulting Inc
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 (9 months)
Delivered a document management platform for a financial firm using Zoho platform and analytics APIs to integrate document workflows and reporting.
Consultant
Gray Consulting Inc
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 (9 months)
Delivered a document management platform for a financial firm using Zoho platform and analytics APIs to enable document workflows and insights.
Consultant
Litecore
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 (4 months)
Built an IoT sports-entertainment system delivering realtime news and scores to connected devices using Java and Kafka.
Consultant
BNA Labs
Dec 2019 - May 2020 (5 months)
Developed a data visualization platform for smart-city infrastructure using Java, Clojure and ClojureScript to present urban analytics and dashboards.
Consultant
BNA Labs
Dec 2019 - May 2020 (5 months)
Built a data-visualization platform for smart city infrastructure using Java, Clojure and ClojureScript to surface analytics for city operations.
Consultant
Ventur8
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 (6 months)
Served as remote developer and architect for a model-driven no-code platform, implementing platform components using Clojure and AWS SDK.
Consultant
Ventur8
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 (6 months)
Acted as remote developer/architect on a no-code, model-driven platform built with Clojure and AWS SDK, contributing to platform architecture and implementation.
Consultant
Infoknob
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019 (10 months)
Developed Hyperledger-based prototypes to enable blockchain governance for Uttarakhand and Jharkhand government departments for transportation and electricity use cases.
Consultant
Infoknob
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019 (10 months)
Developed Hyperledger-based prototypes to enable blockchain governance pilots for state transportation and electricity departments in Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.
Consultant
Stylitics
May 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)
Contributed remotely to web and backend infrastructure for Stylitics, delivering data-driven features for the fashion industry.
Consultant
Stylitics
May 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)
Worked remotely on web and backend infrastructure for Stylitics, contributing to data-driven fashion solutions across a globally distributed engineering team.
Consultant
AmberTAG Analytics
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Architected and developed responsive portals and recommendation systems using Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, S3 and DynamoDB for client platforms.
Consultant
AmberTAG Analytics
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Architected and developed responsive portals and recommendation systems using Clojure, ClojureScript, re-frame, Datomic, S3 and DynamoDB for client products.
Consultant
iPrimed Education Technologies
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 (6 months)
Developed an offline-capable course creator using Clojure/ClojureScript, Material Design, re-frame and Datascript to support online and offline education workflows.
Consultant
iPrimed Education Technologies
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 (6 months)
Developed an offline-capable course creator using Clojure/ClojureScript, Material Design and re-frame to support course authoring and delivery.
Consultant
Senseforth Technologies
Feb 2016 - May 2016 (3 months)
Built a messaging infrastructure with Clojure/ClojureScript, WebSockets and Apache Flink, integrating NLP backends and Elasticsearch for analytics.
Consultant
Senseforth Technologies
Feb 2016 - May 2016 (3 months)
Built a messaging infrastructure using Clojure, WebSockets and Apache Flink integrated with NLP backends and Elasticsearch for analytics.
Chief Technology Officer
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 3 months)
• Built product from concept to production with small engineering team
• Designed scalable polyglot architecture (Vert.x, Cassandra, React, Python, Clojure)
• Enabled rapid iteration while maintaining production reliability
Chief Technology Officer
Catamera
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 3 months)
Built product from concept to production with a small engineering team. Designed scalable polyglot architecture using Vert.x, Cassandra, React, Python, and Clojure to enable rapid iteration with production reliability.
Sr. Architect
Tumri
Aug 2006 - Feb 2014 (7 years 6 months)
Contributed to Tumri's ad-tech self-service platform, designing publisher/advertiser portals, campaign management, ad server and tooling that streamlined ad creation and deployment.
Senior Architect
Tumri
Aug 2006 - Feb 2014 (7 years 6 months)
Joined the startup team to develop Tumri's advertising self-service platform, delivering publisher/advertiser portals, campaign management, ad server and tooling that accelerated ad creation and deployment.
Transferred to Tumri Inc
Defined solution architectures for identity management and portal implementations using vendor products (IBM, Sun, Plumtree) and led delivery for enterprise clients.
Defined solution architectures for identity management and portal products for enterprise clients, integrating offerings from major vendors like IBM and Sun.
Built foundational expertise in:
• Distributed systems and messaging infrastructure
• Computational geometry and 3D systems
• Enterprise architecture and large-scale systems design
This foundation directly informs current AI system architecture decisions.
Member Technical Staff
Sun Microsystems
Nov 2001 - Apr 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Developed J2EE-based directory integration components for the Sun ONE product suite using JCA, JMS, JMX and XML technologies as part of the engineering team.
Member Technical Staff
Sun Microsystems
Nov 2001 - Apr 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Developed J2EE-based directory integration products for the Sun ONE suite using JCA, JMS, JMX and XML technologies as part of the engineering team.
Developed telecom and enterprise applications using J2EE and C++, supported iPlanet directory/messaging servers and led offshore technical execution for client projects.
Developed telecom and enterprise applications using J2EE and C++, supported iPlanet application servers and led offshore technical execution that enabled a client's ODC setup.
Software Engineer
Deneb Hitech
Sep 1998 - Nov 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Developed adapter/connector frameworks for geometry feature translation to CATIA in MultiCAD group using C++ on Windows NT and Unix environments.
Software Engineer
Deneb Hitech
Sep 1998 - Nov 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Developed adapter/connector frameworks for geometry feature translation to CATIA using C++ across Windows NT and Unix environments for the MultiCAD group.
Engineer II
Parametric Technology Corporation
Feb 1997 - Sep 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Worked on 3D graphics and NURBS-based interactive surface design modules for CADDS5 using C/C++ and Tcl/Tk in a Solaris UNIX environment.
Founder
Cricketdays.com
Built Cricketdays.com and Android app to enable match creation, team formation, scoring and feedback analysis using Clojure, ClojureScript and React Native.
Founder
Cricketdays.com
Founded Cricketdays.com, building web and Android apps for match creation, team formation, scoring and feedback analysis using Clojure, ClojureScript and React Native.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Master of Engineering
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