# Industry

> Software engineering roles across enterprise AI, energy, and pharma.

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

I moved from academic research into software engineering to work closer to production systems: architectures, developer workflows, and domain applications that have to hold up under real constraints.

For the academic path that preceded this transition, see my [Research](/experience/research/) and [Education](/experience/education/) pages; related career and software-engineering talks are collected under [Presentations](/presentations/).

Jan 2025 – Present

Munich, Germany

## Senior AI Engineer

[Carl Zeiss AG](https://www.zeiss.com/)

-   Own the GenAI platform application stack at ZEISS – the default architecture, standards, and guardrails for every onboarded application across business units, delivering an estimated €1.5M in productivity gains. Codified these standards in an internal Software Development Handbook read across the organisation.
-   Technical owner of AI Launchpad, ZEISS' company-wide system of record for AI initiatives, actively used by the CFO and CEO to track AI maturity and strategic progress.
-   Technical owner for Debrief Expert Copilot, an LLM-based system preserving institutional knowledge at risk from expert attrition.
-   Drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI coding agents – establishing tooling standards, compliance guardrails, and cost governance so teams can integrate agentic workflows safely. Published an internal Agentic Engineering book to accelerate enablement.

Oct 2023 – Dec 2024

Munich, Germany

## Senior Software Engineer

[Preisenergie GmbH](https://www.preisenergie.de/)

-   Architected full-stack applications (FastAPI/Next.js/React) serving the German energy market.
-   Led infrastructure modernisation: microservices on Kubernetes with CI/CD via CircleCI and ArgoCD.
-   Principal architect for a Shiny application ecosystem, R packages, and ETL pipelines – modernising legacy systems into maintainable codebases.
-   Migrated all company applications from AWS to GCP with zero downtime.

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

Berlin, Germany

## Senior Research Software Engineer

[esqLABS GmbH](https://esqlabs.com/)

-   Built PBPK modelling, simulation, and visualisation systems using object-oriented design in R.
-   Developed and tested production Shiny web applications in the pharmacometrics domain.
-   Designed a modular R package ecosystem to improve maintainability and extensibility.

Continuity

The engineering work shown here is preceded by years of open-source software development — R and Python packages used by hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide. If you are assessing software engineering depth, the [Open-Source](/experience/open-source/) page is as relevant as this one.