Ship production AI in 30 days
Most AI projects never make it to production. I help CTOs and technical leaders ship AI systems that actually work in your environment. I focus on practical implementations that your team can maintain and extend.
Prior to consulting, I was an early engineer at two AI-driven companies that were acquired: Drift (conversational AI, acquired by Vista for $1.2B) and Kensho (AI for financial services, acquired by S&P Global for $550M).
I help with:
- Product Integration — Add AI features your customers will actually use
- Team Enablement — Build up your team's capability to ship AI independently
- Workflow Automation — Replace manual processes that take hours with AI systems that deliver results in minutes
What I Offer
- Implementation Projects
- I embed with your team (typically a CTO plus 1-2 engineers) to ship production-ready AI that integrates seamlessly with your existing architecture. I write code, handle deployment, and ensure it's running in production within 30 days. You get working software and a team that understands how to maintain and extend it.
- Pricing: Starting at $50kDuration: Project-based
- Advisory Engagements
- Your engineers write the code while I provide hands-on technical guidance. I work with a small tactical team throughout—helping with architecture decisions, evaluating results and data, and unblocking challenges as you ship AI features. When needed, I can connect you with trusted vendors in my network.
- Pricing: Starting at $50kDuration: Typically 3 months
- Team Trainings
- I run the AI Coding Accelerator, a hands-on 3-day cohort where your engineers learn practical AI coding workflows. Live coding sessions, guest speakers from Linear, OpenAI, and Cursor, and a hackathon on your own codebase. Teams leave with working systems they can deploy immediately.
“Vignesh helped us get our AI system to production within a month with an architecture designed to support future product goals we had in mind. He set us up to improve our systems over time by building an evaluation system and upleveling our team on best practices in applied AI engineering.”
(opens in new window) “Our team needed to build a frontend interface for a conversational AI application for a large prospective customer on a tight timeline. Vignesh stepped in and integrated our chat SDK and NLX platform into a solution that could easily be productized. The solution worked to specification and was a key part of how we showcased our capabilities to the client. His ability to deliver under pressure made all the difference.”
“Our onboarding flow needed to capture user preferences in a natural and effective way. Vignesh experimented with generative AI approaches and developed a system that turned chatbot conversations into structured insights. His work was essential to delivering the experience we envisioned.”
(opens in new window) “Vignesh helped our staff engineers build a strong understanding of applied AI and showed them how to use AI tools to speed up development in meaningful ways. He played a key role in shaping our AI roadmap, helping the team get clear on both what to build and how to build it. He also designed the systems that let us run all our models on internal infrastructure, ensuring customer data stays private and secure. His guidance helped us move faster in the near term while laying the groundwork for long-term growth in our AI capabilities.”
“Vignesh helped us build our LLM infrastructure from scratch, cutting through buzzwords to implement solutions that deliver measurable improvements. His deep understanding of how LLMs work in production and ability to write high-quality code that actually works, not just demos, was invaluable. He helped us across the stack—from data pipelines to prompts to testing.”
(opens in new window) “This was really enlightening in the way the instructors focused on demonstrating their real workflows. It will absolutely change the way I get work done. I currently spend most of my time managing & directing a team, but now in addition to this, I will be teaching my team how to manage & direct their coding agent(s), as well as being able to have the time to implement things myself with agentic help. Course was a great balance of practical advice & a cool peek at some really useful tools.”
(opens in new window) “Jason and Vignesh were incredibly engaging throughout the course. I really appreciated how open they were to questions. It never felt rushed or overly scripted. The whole experience felt less like a formal training and more like a lunchroom conversation with experienced engineers who genuinely enjoy sharing their knowledge. You really get as much out of it as the effort you put into digging into their wealth of experience.”
(opens in new window) “Both instructors were clearly very invested in the success of the course. I loved the hands on live coding. There is so much detail there that would be hard to convey any other way. Overall a really great course that felt productive and packed with useful info. The condensed 3 day schedule is great and I think works better than a drawn out course over several weeks.”
(opens in new window) About
I'm based in New York, NY. I grew up in New England and was born near Chennai, India. Nila means moon in my native language Tamil (my sister suggested the name).
Find me on LinkedIn (opens in new window), X (opens in new window) and my personal blog (opens in new window).