Summary
Lokesh Nandanwar is a Founding AI Engineer with 9 years of experience building production-grade AI systems that migrate research prototypes into reliable enterprise deployments. He specializes in LLMs, agentic workflows, multimodal AI and computer vision, with a pragmatic focus on reliability, observability, cost-efficiency and learning-from-execution in real-world settings. At Refold AI he shapes the AI roadmap for enterprise integrations, and previously led AI engineering at Infilect where his systems powered Fortune 500 inference pipelines and improved retrieval, latency and continuous evaluation loops. His academic pedigree (M.S. research in computer vision) and peer-reviewed publications give him a research-first mindset that he applies to systems engineering constraints. Comfortable across model development to orchestration, he’s particularly drawn to AI-as-infrastructure problems where advantage accrues through usage and feedback, not just one-off training wins. Based in Bengaluru, he’s open to conversations with founders, operators and investors building scalable, learning-driven AI platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Higher Secondary Education, Science (Electronics), Higher Secondary Education, Science (Electronics) at Sri. Shivaji Science College, Congressnagar,Nagpur
Master of Science - MS(Research), Computer Vision and Image Processing, Master of Science - MS(Research), Computer Vision and Image Processing at University of Malaya
English, Hindi, Marathi