# Indrajeet Patil

> Indrajeet Patil – Senior Software Engineer at Carl Zeiss AG, open-source developer (ggstatsplot, easystats), cognitive neuroscientist, and fiction writer.

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

Software Engineer · Scientist · Writer

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

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 — and drive the organisation's adoption of agentic engineering. Building systems that people trust with hard decisions is, in a way, where I started: 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](/experience/open-source/) for data analysis and code quality, and published [peer-reviewed research](/publications/) in neuroscience and psychology.

-   [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)

Career atlas · 2005—present

## Path

1.  Matter · 01

    ### Physics

    2005 – 2010 · Pune, India

    Two physics degrees in Pune: an award-winning undergraduate thesis on static friction at the atomic scale, and a master's project on how hypergravity affects germinating seeds.

    [Education](/experience/education/)

2.  Mind · 02

    ### Neuroscience/Psychology

    2011 – 2021 · Italy · USA · Germany

    A PhD in cognitive neuroscience at SISSA in Trieste, then postdoctoral research at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute, understanding the psychological and neural bases of different aspects of moral cognition. My publications, spanning research and statistical software, have been [cited 20,000+ times](/publications/).

    [Research](/experience/research/)

3.  Systems · 03

    ### Engineering

    2021 – Present · Germany

    Left academia to build production systems across pharma, energy, and enterprise AI. Now at Carl Zeiss AG, owning LLM application architecture and agentic engineering standards, alongside [open-source packages](/experience/open-source/) downloaded more than 67 million times.

    [Industry](/experience/industry/) [Presentations](/presentations/)

Parallel enquiry · Fiction

### Writing

I am writing [_Distorted Mirrors_](/writing/), a collection of literary fiction about technology's quiet costs.

[Writing](/writing/)