Ashwin Chandrasekaran

Company Location: Chicago, USA

Work Location: Bangalore (Remote)

Founded and lead engineering for generative AI-powered mobile video creation & social platform, serving thousands of users.

• Scaled engineering org from 0 → 24 across AI, frontend, backend, DevOps, and data science.
• Designed agentic media generation pipeline orchestrating LLM-driven storyboarding, multimodal generation (images, video, audio, SFX, narration), and final assembly at scale.
• Built production-grade social platform with Following, Commenting, and Sharing.
• Developed personalized ML recommendation engine, driving +45% user engagement.
• Implemented vector embedding search system with at scale.
• Launched collaborative UGC creation system — 38% of content produced using shared assets.
• Established CI/CD pipelines + Kubernetes infra, cutting release cycles from bi-weekly → weekly and reducing infra costs 30%.
• Expanded into two verticals: Quilt Social and Quilt Health.
• Built internal AI moderation tools, eliminating manual review workload.
• Drove GDPR/CCPA compliance, enabling EU expansion.

Company location: Chicago, USA

Work Location: India (Remote)

Quilt Health provides AI-powered therapeutic media for patients.

• Built agentic system that auto-generates therapeutic content based on diagnosis + user state (mood).
• Integrated biomarkers into interactive games to enhance patient engagement.
• Deployed across multiple clinics → achieved 55–60% higher patient retention.

Work Location: Bangalore (Remote)

AI-driven digital therapeutics startup (funded by Atai Life Sciences, later acquired).

• Developed deep learning system for biosignal processing, achieving 86% accuracy in attention/anxiety measures.
• Created neurofeedback game for state anxiety with strong Phase I results on treatment-resistant depression patients receiving ketamine.
• Scaled team from 0 → 15 across AI/ML, backend, frontend, game development, and DevOps.
• Acquired by Atai Life Sciences (2023).

Company Location: USA

Work Location: Coimbatore, India

Healthcare automation startup.

• Built chatbots integrated into EHR systems for patient intake & monitoring.
• Drove SOC2/HIPAA compliance, unlocking enterprise partnerships.
• Transitioned from monolith → microservices, reducing deployment time 60%

Comany & Work Location: Coimbatore, India

• Built IoT smart motor monitoring system with predictive energy cut-off.
• Built RFID-based asset management system.
• Developed and deployed hospital management software across 40+ hospitals in Tamil Nadu