Summary
Tejas Godambe is a Principal Scientist with over a decade of experience building production-grade speech and language AI, currently driving research and product initiatives at BharatGen. He holds an MS by Research from IIIT Hyderabad and has led language modeling and DNN-based ASR efforts across Amazon Alexa, Genesys, Krutrim and academic labs. Tejas blends deep technical expertise in ASR, speech synthesis and NLP with product-focused leadership—roadmapping, hiring, and mentoring—to ship differentiated voice products for diverse languages, including Indian languages. His work includes a GovTech deployment of a Marathi speech recognizer for rural farmers and measurable CX improvements in multilingual contact centers. Comfortable moving models from research into scalable systems, he consistently targets high-impact problems that unlock business value. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who pairs rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS (by Research) ECE, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Synthesis, MS (by Research) ECE, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Speech Synthesis at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi