I build the car. Not a faster horse.

Sarath Kumar

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Sr. AI Systems Engineer — Leading a GenAI Team

I don't wait for the full picture before I move — I build, research, and learn in motion, then shape what nobody thought to ask for yet.

46s · how I operate as a Forward Deployed Engineer

Seven-plus years embedding directly with client teams, turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into deployed AI systems.

Currently working as an AI Systems and Forward Deployed Engineer at Mphasis, leading the Generative AI team — building enterprise-scale document intelligence in the financial domain, where OCR/ICR and LLM pipelines turn unstructured data into production-grade decisions. Before that: cloud contact-center modernization and conversational AI for banking, insurance, and retail clients at Accenture and Virtusa. Kore.ai, Amazon Connect, Google CCAI, AWS, Python — the stack has changed, the discipline hasn't.

Experience7+ years
Current roleAI Systems & Forward Deployed Engineer, Mphasis
FocusBuilding something valuable
Based inBengaluru, India

Most people wait for the perfect plan before they move.

I move first — and figure out the rest in motion.

Call it manifestation, call it a bias toward action: belief plus motion is how the unclear becomes real. This site and Jarvis — a personal AI operating system built from the ground up — are proof of the same instinct: build first, refine live.

I don't look for opportunities. I build them.

What are you still waiting for the right time to start?

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

— widely attributed to Henry Ford (the line's origin is disputed and unconfirmed — the idea still holds)
01

Research

Dig in once I'm already moving — real signal beats a spreadsheet of guesses.

02

Learn

Every attempt teaches something a plan never could. Update in motion, not after.

03

Focus

Cut the noise. Decide what the moment actually calls for.

04

Prioritise

Rank what moves the needle over what simply feels urgent.

05

Plan

Architect the approach — now backed by what Research and Learn surfaced, not guesswork.

06

Build

Execute the plan with precision. No improvising mid-flight.

07

Ship

Get it live. A plan nobody can use isn't finished yet.

This Website

Designed, built, and shipped end-to-end — a full design system, dark/light theming, scroll-driven motion, responsive across every device.

You're looking at it A few hours of thinking, learning, building, validating, and deploying

Jarvis

A personal AI operating system built from the ground up — a reasoning core that tiers between fast local inference and frontier models, wired into voice, home automation, and real tool use.

In active development

Also shipped a private resume scorer on a lazy Sunday scroll — scores skills and experience on the spot, nothing stored, nothing collected. Privacy isn't a feature, it's a right. Go break it →