Matter · 01
Physics
2005 – 2010 · Pune, India
Two physics degrees in Pune: an award-winning undergraduate thesis on static friction at the atomic scale, and a master's project on how hypergravity affects germinating seeds.
EducationSoftware Engineer · Scientist · Writer
Indrajeet Patil
I build software for work, and read, write, and watch fiction to make sense of everything else.
At Carl Zeiss AG, I own the GenAI-based application layer of the company's AI platform — the architecture, security model, and guardrails that every business unit builds on when shipping LLM applications — and drive the organisation's adoption of agentic engineering. Building systems that people trust with hard decisions is, in a way, where I started: earlier, I studied moral decision-making at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute, after a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste.
That path has left me with two recurring interests: how people decide what matters, and how to build tools that survive contact with real work. I have authored open-source libraries for data analysis and code quality, and published peer-reviewed research in neuroscience and psychology.
Career atlas · 2005—present
Path
Mind · 02
Neuroscience/Psychology
2011 – 2021 · Italy · USA · Germany
A PhD in cognitive neuroscience at SISSA in Trieste, then postdoctoral research at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute, understanding the psychological and neural bases of different aspects of moral cognition. My publications, spanning research and statistical software, have been cited 20,000+ times.
ResearchSystems · 03
Engineering
2021 – Present · Germany
Left academia to build production systems across pharma, energy, and enterprise AI. Now at Carl Zeiss AG, owning LLM application architecture and agentic engineering standards, alongside open-source packages downloaded more than 67 million times.