Experience
Senior AI Product Developer, Inventorship Contract
Continue driving the completion of my Dell Applied AI patent application portfolio, 18 applications currently in development with me as first inventor.
Senior AI Product Developer, AI PC Agents & Hybrid AI
Initiated and led a Product R&D workstream that has resulted in a 35-item Applied AI patent application portfolio focused on AI PC Agents and Hybrid Edge AI. In this role I collaborated with 10 inventors and multiple legal teams to identify, protect and develop novel AI product concepts and capabilities that extend Dell's existing offerings.
Key responsibilities
- Served as lead and primary engineering contributor to 6 on-device SLM services and 2 ASR services powering privacy-first conversational AI for Dell AI PC Agents across 2 hardware platforms.
- Originated PRDs for 35 differentiated AI product concepts across multiple domains — Security, Privacy, Resilience, Efficiency, Accessibility, Personalization, Digital Wellness, Automation, Agent-Native SDLC etc.
- Defined product and patent strategies aligned with business objectives, along with end-to-end solution architectures enabling independent engineering execution.
- Identified underserved technological whitespace by analyzing AI limitations across on-device, cloud, and hybrid deployments, latent user needs, and the competitive landscape.
- Represented the development team in discussions with senior leaders from Dell's Software Engineering and CTO organizations and external partners.
Notable Outcomes
- Built the intellectual property portfolio from zero, securing more than $1M in funding.
- Filed 17 USPTO patent applications (14 as first inventor), with 18 additional applications in development as first inventor.
- Delivered 8 AI services that ship to all Dell AI PC customers and are used or referenced internally by teams developing AI PC Agents and related patents.
Software Developer, Web Services
- Built .NET microservices, React Front-ends and GitLab CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with 8 other teams.
- Starting from my second year I also onboarded 7 developers, took on Scrum Master duties and led cross-team UAT/E2E defect triage on rotation.