Eshaan Prasad Mathakari
About
I'm Eshaan Prasad Mathakari, an AI engineer and data scientist in New York City. By day I build agentic AI systems at EXL. The rest of the time I run a small AI lab out of my apartment, do research on how models make decisions, and work on projects that have no business plan at all.
I studied computer engineering at SRM and data science at the University of Arizona. Along the way I co-ran a sneaker marketplace, co-authored research on ant-colony intelligence and shrimp disease, and learned that careful experiments teach you the most.
Away from the keyboard I take photographs, cut short films from my own footage, and write about mental health for The Talk Therapy.
The story so far
#life:eshaan.home
Topic: AI engineer, data scientist, and the person running a small lab out of his apartment.
- 2020
- eshaan completed an R Basics certificate. The start of the data path.
- 2021
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Co-ran a sneaker marketplace until 2024.
- 2022
- eshaan became an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
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Started as a data science intern at Sagility Healthcare, through May 2023: pipelines in Azure Synapse and dashboards in Power BI.
- 2023
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Co-authored a paper on detecting shrimp disease from images with CNNs and EfficientNet.
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Moved to Tucson for an MS in Data Science at the University of Arizona.
- 2025
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Joined EXL as a GenAI intern, working on LLMs and AI agents.
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Presented Antelligence posters at IEEE EMBS (UCLA) and SBP-BRiMS (Carnegie Mellon).
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Started full time as an AI Engineer at EXL, after graduating.
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Announced TrustSwarm: AI forecasts weighted by their track record.
- 2026
- eshaan earned the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional.
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Moved to New York City. The Mac Studio came too.
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Built Velo with Craig Mutugi: tennis coaching from one phone clip.
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Moved Antelligence’s on-chain layer to ZKsync for privacy, and ran our first preregistered colony experiment.
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Started slaya and a plant simulator for New York.
Day job
AI Engineer · EXL · since 2025I design and ship agentic AI systems: several cooperating agents with a person approving the decisions that matter, grounded in deterministic rules, citations and audit trails for regulated industries like banking, compliance and legal. I also work on AI safety and evaluation, and I ship full stack: React and TypeScript front ends, Python and Node back ends, and AWS.
Built during my professional work. The names are project code names, and client details stay private. Several are prototypes or proofs of concept built on synthetic data. Earlier work included downtime-recovery automation, a teacher agent that grades free-text compliance assessments, and research on computer-use agents (open-sourced as Sholay).
- Pitch CompassA prototype AI copilot that helps bank sales advisors understand business clients and choose next steps.
- Fine Print HawkA workspace that checks loan covenants against their source documents and flags every mismatch.
- Paper TrailFour AI agents run business due-diligence checks, while fixed rules decide every risk score.
- Rulebook RadarEight AI agents turn a regulatory document in any language into a reviewed change record.
- Ticket WhispererSix AI agents take an IT support incident from first report all the way to closure.
- Sparring PartnerAn AI red-team and blue-team platform that attacks chatbots, scores the results and proposes fixes.
- Ink SlingerAn AI assistant that redlines NDAs and purchase terms, citing a rule for every edit.
- Sticky FingersA shared hub where teammates publish reusable skills that AI coding agents can find and fetch.
- Inbox ButlerTwo automation pipelines that replaced manual inbox monitoring and data entry for order processing.
Education
- MS in Data ScienceUniversity of Arizona · 2025
- Bachelor's in Computer EngineeringSRM Institute of Science and Technology
Posters & certifications
- Poster, IEEE EMBS 2025UCLA · Antelligence
- Poster, SBP-BRiMS 2025Carnegie Mellon · Antelligence
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – ProfessionalAmazon Web Services · April 2026
- Agentic AI Engineering programADaSci · 2025
- Machine learning certificationAlteryx · June 2024
- AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Services · January 2022
Toolbox
- Languages
- AI
- Infrastructure
- Data
Off the clock
Photography and video
I shoot landscapes and travel, and cut short, calm, reflective videos from my own footage.
Writing about mental health
The Talk Therapy is my small publication and podcast about listening, difficult conversations and looking after yourself.
Making things by hand
Physical art projects, made by hand.
Travel and meeting new people
New cities and new conversations. Arizona and New York so far.
Social-purpose apps
Tools people can actually use, released as open source so others can learn from them or build on them.
Sneakers
Co-ran a sneaker marketplace from 2021 to 2024: sourcing, pricing, and learning that operations are the real product.
Get in touch
The easiest way to reach me is email: eshaan.mathakari@gmail.com. I'm happy to talk about any project here, collaborate on research, or just compare notes on running agents at home.