Sankalp Phadnis
+91 7758989892 · phadnis.sankalp691@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub · X · sankalpphadnis.com
Technical Skills
AI / ML
PyTorch, LangGraph, LangChain, LiteLLM, RAG, Multi-Agent Systems, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, NLP, MCP
Languages
Python, TypeScript, SQL, C
Backend
FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Convex, Docker, Railway, Vercel, Git
Experience
Curium
May 2026 – Present
Member of Technical Staff
  • Reduced onboarding research bias by 74% in a paired-brand evaluation through topic research and filtering improvements
  • Helped build an autonomous content generation pipeline that follows each brand’s voice
  • Identified tenets of effective GEO articles and built agents that recommend refreshes against them
  • Built a general-purpose pipeline to scrape web pages where access is permitted
  • Developed an autonomous research agent that identifies gaps in a brand’s GEO presence and creates tailored sales decks
Startup
Sep 2025 – May 2026
Founder, Lemma
Jan 2026 – May 2026
  • Built an AI workspace for writing product documents; the AI reads your active document and helps edit, research the web, and generate diagrams
  • "Wing It" took a topic, asked clarifying questions, searched the web for research, then wrote a first draft
  • Reached 8 beta users who created 42 docs · Built with Next.js, Convex, Plate.js, Vercel AI SDK
Co-founder, Zarie
Sep 2025 – Jan 2026
  • Built Zarie, an AI assistant on Telegram and Slack for reminders, schedules, and tasks; scaled to 100 users
  • Two-agent system: one handles user conversations, the other runs background jobs (scheduling, calendar sync, web search). Built with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, LiteLLM
  • Built Poirot, an internal tool to trace and debug agent behavior
Groww
Jul 2021 – Sep 2025
India's largest stock broker · 23.1M transacting users · ~₹1.22 lakh Cr market cap (Sep 2026)
Product Manager II, Margin Trading Facility
Mar 2024 – Sep 2025
  • Led MTF from early stage to PMF; grew loan book 11x from ₹80Cr to ₹883Cr in 7 months
  • Designed recommendation algorithm for trending MTF stocks; 3x new transacting users; NPS from -17 to +5
APM II → PM I, Bill Payments Platform (BBPS)
Jul 2022 – Mar 2024
  • Launched Groww's bill payments platform from scratch and built an SMS-based auto-bill detection feature that improved conversion by 41%
  • Grew the platform to 500K+ transacting users with an NPS of 48 within 5 months of launch
APM I, Payments Platform
Jul 2021 – Jul 2022
  • Scaled ICICI bulk payouts to 1L withdrawals/day, 75% latency reduction; revamped MF flows for SEBI compliance
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology , MS Computer Science (OMSCS)
2025 – Present · 4.0 GPA
Deep Learning · Machine Learning · ML for Trading · Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems · Reinforcement Learning*
IIT Madras , BTech + MTech (Dual Degree), Engineering Design
2016 – 2021 · 8.8 / 10
Projects
Tiny Recursive Model · Course Project
CS 7643 · 2025
  • Reimplemented TRM from scratch in PyTorch; 60+ ablation experiments on 4x4 Sudoku; 94.4% accuracy
TU Munich · Research Internship
Jan 2020 – Jul 2020
  • Researched optimal attachment points for cable-driven robotic arms using particle swarm optimization
  • Developed a scoring algorithm achieving 67% workspace coverage; supervised by Dr. Markus Zimmermann