Software Engineer · Scientist · Writer

Indrajeet Patil

I build software for work, and read, write, and watch fiction to keep the rest of my attention honest.

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. I also drive the organisation's adoption of agentic engineering best practices, helping teams work productively with AI coding agents while staying within compliance and cost constraints. 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, published peer-reviewed research in neuroscience and psychology, written a screenplay adapted from Marathi literature, and am finishing a collection of literary fiction about technology's quiet costs.

Indrajeet Patil, a man with round gold-framed glasses wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt
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Physics Neuroscience Engineering

India Italy USA Germany

  1. 2025 – Present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Carl Zeiss AG · Munich, Germany

    Owns the GenAI-based application layer of the company's AI platform and leads enterprise-wide agentic engineering adoption

    Industry

  2. 2023 – 2024

    Senior Software Engineer

    Preisenergie GmbH · Munich, Germany

    Full-stack applications for the German energy market

    Industry

  3. 2021 – 2022

    Senior Research Software Engineer

    esqLABS GmbH · Berlin, Germany

    Pharmacokinetic modelling and simulation systems in pharma

    Industry

  4. 2019 – 2021

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Berlin, Germany

    Computational modelling of moral behaviour

    Research

  5. 2017 – 2019

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Harvard University · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Social psychology research on moral cognition

    Research

  6. 2011 – 2016

    Ph.D. in Neuroscience

    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) · Trieste, Italy

    Social neuroscience of moral decision-making

    Education

  7. 2008 – 2010

    M.Sc. in Physics

    University of Pune · Pune, India

    Education

  8. 2005 – 2008

    B.Sc. in Physics

    Fergusson College · Pune, India

    Education