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
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
Systems built
Proof, with the harness attached.
KYC Copilot
Self-built product · open-sourced
- 93% review-time reduction
- 14 min vs 3.5 hr
- F1 1.000
- 223/223 suite
Own product; built commercially, then open-sourced. Benchmark, not a client record. AMLD6-aligned; FINTRAC/PCMLTFA mapping; Fly.io ams.
Abyssal Twin
Own product · edge
- 52% token-spend cut
- 40+ regions
- Full mission replay
Edge telemetry filtering and caching; Cloudflare Edge.
NeuroPro
Own product · on-device
- 100% on-device
- Metal / Neural Engine
- Zero cloud API spend
ARKit point-cloud inference in Swift; privacy-first.
SoulBoxFT
Own product · edge AI
- 986 MB quantized
- Recall-1.0 safety classifier
- Sub-$60 hardware
MLX fine-tune; synthetic multilingual data.
Nonprofit client system
Pro bono client system · Looker
- 4 live panels
- 30% faster SQL
- 89% → 97% accuracy
- 500+ users
95%+ sustained dashboard accuracy over 8 months.
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.
GenAI Credentialed
NCA-GENL. Issued via Credly. Click to verify.
Verify on NVIDIA / Credly → Northeastern University · 2024MS Information Systems
Boston. Distributed systems, data engineering, and production AI foundations.
northeastern.edu →NSRI / DoD-aligned
Underwater autonomy research. Public details limited.
Track record
- 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.
- 2024
MS Information Systems · Northeastern University
Boston. Distributed systems, evaluation, and production AI foundations. Defense research collaboration with NSRI on underwater autonomy.
- 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.