Ari Surana

Ari Surana

Deep Learning · Software Engineering

Designing thinking machines and ML systems at scale

Building with vision, language, and code generation.

Deep learning at scale
My tech stack
PythonAgentsLLMs
vLLMPyTorchKubernetes
Based in Sydney, building globally
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I ship stuff that solves real world problems

My work experience

2025 — Present

Founder

Neudash

Building AI-powered automation platform that turns ideas into working workflows. Describe what you want to automate in natural language and AI builds it for you.

2025 — Present

Founder

Visonic AI

Building AI-powered video intelligence platform. Focused on long-form video understanding, delivering human-level understanding of context, emotion, and narrative.

2024 — 2025

Principal ML Engineer

Atlassian

Led AI architecture for Rovo Chat & Atlassian Studio. Built evaluation platform that launched Rovo to GA in 4 months. Drove strategy across 600+ person Central AI org.

2021 — 2024

Principal ML Engineer

Nearmap

Led AI Data Engine function, building next-gen computer vision products. Launched Segmentation Copilot using foundation models (SAM, SEEM, DINOv2) for real-time geospatial AI.

2018 — 2021

Principal Data Architect

hipages

Built data infrastructure and ML capabilities from scratch. Grew data platform team, designed data lake and ML platform delivering business-critical analytics.

2016 — 2018

Senior Data Engineer

BigCommerce

Built planet-scale analytics processing 100K events/sec. Designed real-time merchant insights platform generating millions in revenue.

2013 — 2016

Senior Consultant - Data Science

Deloitte

Led data analytics and engineering projects across MAS, VMware, GE Healthcare, and USGA. Managed globally distributed teams of 15+ engineers across India, US, and APAC.

2011 — 2013

Software Engineer

BirlaSoft

Built data warehouse applications integrating 400+ heterogeneous data sources across three continents. Optimized critical ETL processes achieving 20x performance improvement.