From messy workflows to reliable AI products.

I take ambiguous user problems from discovery to shipped systems, owning the product decisions, architecture, evaluation and delivery.

Sydney, Australia · Building across product discovery, agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation and full-stack delivery.

Orchestra Socrates workspace for grounded questions, citations and evidence controls
OrchestraA product brain for client-facing software teams.Synthetic demonstration data
100+customer interviewsOrchestra discovery
5pilot customersOrchestra beta
17read-only integrationsOrchestra context layer
148evaluation casesretrieval and grounding suite

Orchestra

A product brain for client-facing software teams.

Product decisions fracture across meetings, documents, conversations and code. Teams repeat discovery, lose rationale and act without shared context.

Orchestra separates immutable project evidence from reviewed product truth. It turns PRDs, meetings, client conversations and code into citation-backed answers, proposed requirement changes and approved context that can be delivered to teams and AI coding tools through MCP.

Ownership
Discovery, strategy, architecture, evaluation and delivery
Status
Private beta
Evidence
100+ interviews, five pilots, 148 evaluation cases
Orchestra dashboard showing recent projects, review tasks and connected sources
Orchestra project dashboard using synthetic product records.Synthetic demonstration data
  1. Sources

    PRDs, meetings, conversations, GitHub and Drive

  2. Immutable evidence

    Source records preserved with provenance and permissions

  3. Hybrid retrieval

    Dense and sparse search with metadata filters and reranking

  4. Review proposal

    Questions, conflicts and requirement changes mapped for review

  5. Versioned truth

    Accepted changes update auditable Product Brain state

  6. Socrates and MCP

    Grounded answers and approved context delivered where work happens

Evidence is not accepted truth

Source records remain immutable until an authorized reviewer accepts a proposed change.

Review precedes version change

Live Doc proposals map changes to product context before Product Brain state moves forward.

Evaluate before expanding

A stable suite protects relevance, grounding and regressions.

Read the Orchestra case study

Selected work

Four more systems spanning agent orchestration, operational automation, analytics and evidence-first knowledge work.

LaneOrchestrator system map showing context inspection, three model lanes, specialist execution and independent review
Code-native system map of the public LaneOrchestrator routing contract.Recorded product interface
02Public open-source release

LaneOrchestrator

A policy-aware orchestration layer that routes Codex work across model lanes, specialist agents, approval gates and verification workflows.

172 specialists · 3 model lanes · zero third-party runtime dependencies · reviewed v0.2.4

Ownership: Product concept, Routing architecture, Policy design

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ReplayOS control room showing an approval-gated operational workflow and evidence trace
Approval, execution and recovery surfaces from the synthetic demonstration.Synthetic demonstration data
03Live synthetic demonstration

ReplayOS

A workflow control plane that converts operational evidence into typed, approval-gated execution with recovery and verifiable traces.

AUD 500 approval threshold · exact AUD 740 effect binding · one idempotent effect · versioned recovery

Ownership: Product strategy, Workflow model, Control architecture

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Analytics copilot workspace showing dataset analysis, generated SQL and an approval gate
End-to-end analytics workspace using the repository's synthetic demonstration data.Synthetic demonstration data
04Open-source reference build

Governed Analytics Copilot

A governed analytics copilot for natural-language SQL, forecasting, approvals and evidence-backed business decisions.

SHA-256 query and dataset binding · 5 second execution budget · 1,000 row cap · deterministic offline path

Ownership: Product framing, Governance architecture, Backend and frontend delivery

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Knowledge workspace showing processed documents, grounded answers and confidence signals
Document operations and review analytics using synthetic demonstration activity.Synthetic demonstration data
05Open-source reference build

Evidence-first Knowledge Workspace

A role-aware knowledge workspace that turns approved documents into grounded answers with evidence, confidence signals and human review.

4 role surfaces · hybrid retrieval with reranking · citation cards · confidence-gated review

Ownership: System design, Agent workflow, Retrieval and evaluation

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Explore the project archive

How I work

One operating model, from first conversation to verified product behaviour.

  1. 01

    Find the real decision

    Start with the user, the workflow and the cost of getting the decision wrong.

  2. 02

    Shape the smallest useful product

    Turn the problem into a focused journey with a clear result and measurable behaviour.

  3. 03

    Design the authority boundary

    Decide what models may propose, what software must enforce and where people stay in control.

  4. 04

    Build and evaluate

    Implement the complete path and test retrieval, grounding, permissions, failure and cost separately.

  5. 05

    Ship the operating system around it

    Treat review, observability, recovery and evidence as product surfaces, not release notes.

Experience

Work across product discovery, applied AI and full-stack delivery.

Mar 2026 to Jun 2026Sydney, Australia

Founder / AI Builder in Residence

Arrayah and SH1P Australia

Took Orchestra from 100+ customer interviews to a live beta with five pilot customers, owning discovery, system architecture, backend delivery, evaluation and pilot execution.

Feb 2026 to Mar 2026Sydney, Australia

AI and Automation Engineer

KRSP Tech

Created a privacy-first candidate-ranking system with section-aware scoring, local document processing and auditable LLM-assisted explanations.

Dec 2024 to Jan 2025Chicago, USA · Remote

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Aavaaz Inc

Developed NLP and speech-recognition pipelines for real-time translation, reaching 97% language-detection accuracy.

May 2024 to Oct 2024Bengaluru, India

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Continental Automotive

Worked across real-time terrain perception, an internal RAG assistant adopted by 3,000+ employees and Python automation that reduced documentation effort by roughly 95%.

About

I do my best work where the problem is still unclear. I enjoy talking to users, mapping the workflow, deciding where models should and should not have authority, and then building and evaluating the system end to end.

Portrait of Karthik Ramesh
Karthik Ramesh, Sydney.

Education

Master of Data Science and InnovationUniversity of Technology Sydney2025 to 2027
Bachelor of EngineeringBMS College of Engineering2020 to 2024

Recognition

  • Selected for Arrayah Accelerator Chapters 3 and 4
  • Selected for SH1P Australia Cohort 1
  • Showcased an AI-enhanced terrain-adaptive vehicle control system at Continental Innovation Day
  • Submitted the terrain-adaptive vehicle control system to SAEINDIA International Mobility Conference 2024

Product discovery and strategy

Customer discovery, 0 to 1 product development, requirements shaping, workflow design, rapid prototyping, evaluation design and pilot delivery

Agentic systems and retrieval

Agent orchestration, hybrid retrieval, reranking, embeddings, vector search, tool calling, MCP, grounding and citation verification

Full-stack delivery

Python, TypeScript, SQL, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, Prisma and BullMQ

Evaluation and reliability

LLM evaluation, regression testing, CI/CD, RBAC, audit logs, observability, sandboxing, security scanning and workflow automation

Applied machine learning

NLP, computer vision, speech recognition, PyTorch, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy and data visualisation

Building something where AI has to work inside a real workflow?

I’m interested in teams that care equally about user value, technical depth and what happens after the demo.

Sydney, Australia · Open to ambitious product and engineering teams.