Summary
Sourabh Daptardar is a Principal AI Engineer based in Mumbai with 12 years of experience building practical AI, vision, and systems solutions from research prototypes to production. He blends deep academic foundations from IIT Kanpur and Stony Brook with hands-on firmware and kernel bring-up experience at AppliedMicro, giving him rare fluency across embedded systems, OS-level work, and machine learning. As Chief Data Scientist at dataeaze and now at Viridium.AI, he has led data-driven product development and applied computer vision and ML to real-world problems. His background includes teaching and research in video analysis, computational photography, and medical imaging, reflecting a sustained focus on visual intelligence. Colleagues know him for exploring neurologically plausible models for object classification and for translating theoretical insights into deployable code. He pairs curiosity about algorithms and systems with a track record of shipping robust, production-ready engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
B.E Information Technology, B.E Information Technology at University of Mumbai
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Marathi, French