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Principal · AI Assurance Mumbai · IST

Evidence-grade assurance for AI in production.

I bridge deterministic evaluation harnesses, edge-deployed AI, and regulatory control matrices, so a system that demos well can be defended in production, in an audit, and on a board deck.

Principal AI Assurance & Information Systems Specialist

About Swanand

Swanand Tanavade, Principal AI Assurance and Information Systems Specialist

NVIDIA GenAI Credentialed (NCA-GENL) · MS Information Systems, Northeastern University (2024) · NSRI / underwater autonomy defense research · combined experience across data engineering, distributed pipelines, and production AI.

My work sits at the intersection of information systems analysis and production AI assurance. It starts with the same question every serious AI team eventually faces: can you prove this system is reliable, affordable, safe, observable, and defensible? That is not a prompt problem. It is an evaluation-harness, routing, and control-matrix problem.

KYC Copilot, my own product—built commercially, then open-sourced—is the clearest public example. It is not a client engagement; the benchmark comes from the project's test dossier, not a client production record. The compliance workflow runs at 93% lower manual review time (14 minutes automated dossier plus HITL versus 3.5 hours manual), with 159/159 unit tests, 24/24 evaluation scenarios, F1 1.000, KYT macro-F1 1.000, and a 0.800 low-cost routing ratio: 80% of low-risk cases route to tier t2, while high-risk PEP/sanctions cases route to tier t4 pending_hitl. The full suite is 223/223 across 38 files at 71.59% line coverage, with 0 npm audit vulnerabilities. It is deployed EU-resident on Fly.io ams, AMLD6-aligned, with FINTRAC/PCMLTFA mapping.

Abyssal Twin is the edge case: a real-time digital twin on Cloudflare Edge across 40+ regions, with a 52% benchmark cut in token spend via edge telemetry filtering and caching, plus full-fidelity mission replay. The nonprofit client system is the data-governance case: 4 live Looker Studio / LookML semantic panels, SQL query execution time reduced by 30% via CTE refactoring and PostgreSQL indexing, and data sync accuracy driven from 89% to 97%, sustaining 95%+ dashboard accuracy over 8 months for 500+ users.

By the numbers

159/159 KYC Copilot unit tests
24/24 Evaluation scenarios
F1 1.000 KYC evaluation F1
0.800 Low-cost routing ratio

Systems built

Proof, with the harness attached.

Operating model

Mumbai base. Global overlap. Direct contracts.

Operating out of Mumbai (IST) with dedicated synchronous overlap across the US (EST/PST), Canada (ET/PT), EU (CET/GMT), and APAC. Direct B2B contracting via Deel or US/CAD wire.

  • Two fixed-scope engagements per quarter, plus one fractional Assurance Officer seat.
  • Senior IC delivery only: I take the engagement and deliver every line.
  • Async by default; synchronous time is reserved for evidence reviews, readouts, and SOW alignment.

Recognition & credentials

Third-party-validated where verification is public.

Track record

  1. 2025–Now

    Principal AI Assurance & Information Systems Specialist

    Independent assurance for teams shipping AI into revenue workflows. Own products: KYC Copilot (open-sourced), Abyssal Twin, NeuroPro, SoulBoxFT. Pro bono client system: a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Fixed scope, USD, senior IC only.

  2. 2024

    MS Information Systems · Northeastern University

    Boston. Distributed systems, evaluation, and production AI foundations. Defense research collaboration with NSRI on underwater autonomy.

  3. Before 2024

    Data engineering and distributed pipelines

    Combined experience across data engineering, pipeline reliability, and production systems: the foundation for assurance work that starts at the data layer, not the model demo.

Verifications

Issued by third-party credentialing bodies. Click to verify.

NVIDIA · NCA-GENL GenAI Foundations Issued via Credly. Click to verify the credential. Verify on Credly →

Next step

Start with evidence, not a pitch.

Run the free five-axis scorecard, then scope the $7,500 Diagnostic or the $25,000 Full Production Assurance sprint.