# About

> Who Indrajeet Patil is: a Senior Software Engineer at Carl Zeiss AG, open-source author, former cognitive neuroscientist, and fiction writer based in Germany.

Source: [https://www.indrapatil.com/about/](https://www.indrapatil.com/about/)

Software engineer, former scientist, and fiction writer — the short version of a longer, winding path.

I am **Indrajeet Patil**, a Senior Software Engineer at Carl Zeiss AG in Germany. I own the GenAI-based application layer of the company's AI platform — the architecture, security model, and guardrails that business units rely on when they ship LLM-powered applications — and I drive the organisation's adoption of agentic engineering practices.

I did not start in software. I hold two physics degrees from Pune, India, and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from SISSA in Trieste, followed by postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where I studied the psychological and neural bases of moral decision-making. That work has been [cited thousands of times](/publications/), and the open-source statistical software I built alongside it — including [ggstatsplot and the easystats ecosystem](/experience/open-source/) — has been downloaded millions of times.

In 2021 I left academia to build production systems across pharma, energy, and enterprise AI. The through-line across physics, neuroscience, and engineering is a stubborn interest in two questions: how people decide what matters, and how to build tools that survive contact with real work. Outside engineering, I am writing [_Distorted Mirrors_](/writing/), a collection of literary fiction about technology's quieter costs.

You can explore my [industry](/experience/industry/), [research](/experience/research/), and [education](/experience/education/) history, browse my [talks and workshops](/presentations/), or read more about the [fiction and popular science](/writing/) I write. If you would like to get in touch, see the [contact page](/contact/).

Elsewhere

-   [Email](mailto:patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com)
-   [GitHub](https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil)
-   [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/indrajeet-patil-ph-d-397865174/)
-   [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kSYuYTUAAAAJ&hl=en)