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.

Before industry, I spent a decade researching moral judgement, and I still build and maintain open-source packages.

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 how people judge accidental and intentional harm. 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.

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Writing

Distorted Mirrors is a collection of literary fiction about ordinary people in present-day India and its near-futures, living with technologies that arrive before anyone has agreed what they are for.

It is unpublished, and I am looking for a literary agent. I have also written a screenplay and a column of popular-science articles in Marathi.

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