Indrajeet Patil

I build AI products for work, and read, write, and watch fiction to make sense of everything else.

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

I am a Senior AI Engineer at Carl Zeiss AG in Munich. I own the GenAI application layer of our AI platform: its architecture, security model, and guardrails for every business unit. I also drive agentic engineering standards and adoption.

Path

  1. Physics

    2005–2010, Pune

    Two physics degrees: an award-winning undergraduate thesis on atomic-scale static friction, then a master's project on hypergravity and seed germination.

  2. Neuroscience and psychology

    2011–2021, Trieste, Cambridge, and Berlin

    A PhD in neuroscience at SISSA, then postdoctoral research at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development on the neural and psychological basis of moral decision-making in dilemmatic contexts. My peer-reviewed publications also cover statistical software.

  3. Engineering

    2021 to now, Berlin and Munich

    I left academia to build production systems across pharma, energy, and enterprise AI. I also develop open-source tools for data analysis and code quality, and give talks on software craft.

Selected work