Avishkar Dandge

Led the design and implementation of core backend architecture for a high-throughput real-money fantasy cricket platform, managing critical user onboarding, KYC, match data, and secure payment processing.

• Processed over ₹8 Crore ($1M) in entry fees and daily payouts, integrating with secure payment gateways like Razorpay & Cashfree.
• Engineered and deployed FastAPI + PostgreSQL microservices on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3) with robust GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high availability and rapid feature delivery.
• Scaled platform infrastructure to support 10K+ concurrent users during IPL season peaks, maintaining sub-second response times for critical transactions.
• Mentored junior developers and open-sourced a simulated infrastructure (fantasy-infra-sim), fostering team growth and community contribution.

Co-founded and led MLOps engineering for BabelLabsAI, developing a scalable multimodal dubbing pipeline and pioneering on-chain content authentication for AI-generated media.

• Architected and deployed a scalable multimodal dubbing pipeline (Whisper→TTS→Wave2Lip) on AWS, enabling end-to-end AI video generation.
• Implemented content hash authentication on Solana for AI-generated media, establishing verifiable provenance for digital assets.
• Containerized the entire dubbing pipeline and automated video generation using reproducible job queues, enhancing system reliability and efficiency.
• Engaged leading AI engineers and showcased product demos on Twitter (@BabelLabsAI), driving early adoption and community interest.

Contributed as a Backend Engineering Intern, launching critical microservices and optimizing core financial systems for enhanced performance and reliability.

• Developed and launched a KYC microservice, alongside AI chatbots and payment gateway integrations, supporting MVPs across travel, banking, and healthcare sectors.
• Refactored the core wallet service to an asynchronous processing model, reducing transaction latency by 40% and streamlining deployment processes.

An open-source Hospital Management System designed to offer a resilient, offline-first alternative to traditional clinic software in low-resource environments.

A Dockerized NLP pipeline engineered to extract and geolocate mining project entities from unstructured PDF documents using advanced AI models.

Contributed to Griptape, an open-source project focused on enhancing LLM agent security and data privacy.

Founded and scaled DevKraft, a technical community focused on empowering student developers through training and hackathons.

Secured significant team prizes in competitive hackathons focused on cutting-edge backend infrastructure, agent pipelines, and real-time systems.