aviral bajpai · mumbai, india

I build intelligent systems and sing stories under neon skies.

By profession I lead AI engineering — LLM products shipped to production, organizations rebuilt around agents. By calling I'm a Bollywood-rock and Sufi vocalist with originals streaming everywhere. Two frequencies. One signal.

engineer vocalist

drag the fader — this site runs on both channels

15+ years building software 6+ LLM products in production 50+ engineers led 4 bands, one voice 7 original tracks streaming 10,000 people, one stage
the premise

Most people pick a lane. I picked a waveform.

Engineering and music aren't opposites — they're the same discipline at different frequencies. Both take a system of small, precise decisions and make it feel effortless. Here's each channel, solo.

signal a · the engineer

I take LLM products from whiteboard to production.

Fifteen-plus years building software; the last five exclusively on applied AI, ML model training, and GenAI product architecture. Currently VP of Technology (AI & Platform) at an enterprise commerce platform in Mumbai.

6+

LLM products shipped to production

GPT, Claude, and custom fine-tuned models with Langchain/Langflow orchestration and vector-DB retrieval.

30%

Infrastructure cost cut, throughput 3×

$180K+ annualized AWS savings — re-platformed monolith to AppRunner, Lambda, and Kubernetes.

40%

Faster time-to-market

Architecture redesign and CI/CD automation that took deployments from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

50+

Engineers led across verticals

Built cross-functional AI, backend, and DevOps teams; mentored 6 leads into senior leadership.

10×

Agentic org transformation

Restructured 4 squads around agentic development workflows with LLM-assisted code review.

92%

ML models earning their keep

ResNet vision classifiers, LSTM forecasters, and recommenders that lifted conversion 18%.

2023 — now

VP Technology (AI & Platform) · enterprise commerce & content platform

Three LLM products in production, 60% less manual content ops for enterprise clients, 25% ARR growth from new AI revenue streams — and attrition down from 22% to 9%.

2019 — 2023

Solution Architect → AVP → VP Technology · AI analytics SaaS

LLM-augmented analytics on 2M+ daily events, deep-learning recommenders (+35% engagement), LSTM trading signals for 4 hedge funds, and a $500K+ AI R&D roadmap approved by the board.

2015 — 2019

Senior Developer → Team Lead → Solutions Architect · enterprise commerce & content platform

Led the monolith-to-microservices migration (ASP.NET Core, React, Docker) — 99.95% reliability, 12 concurrent dev streams shipping weekly.

2010 — 2015

Team Leader, Software Development · proprietary ERP for textile spinning, Lucknow

Three ERP systems and two iOS apps shipped into spinning mills — every project delivered on time, while playing metal shows on weekends.

llm & genai
ClaudeGPT-5RAG pipelinesLangchainLangflowvector DBsdiffusion models
ml / dl
PyTorchTensorFlowResNetLSTMNLP / NERrecommenders
cloud & stack
AWSKubernetesSageMakerPythonNode.jsReact / Next.jsPostgreSQLRedis
signal b · the vocalist

Passion. Power. Soul.

Bollywood, rock, and Sufi — blended into an emotive, cinematic style. Originals distributed to every major platform, tributes to the voices I grew up on, and visuals I direct myself.

Awaaz

Awaaz — EP

2020 · 4 tracks · rock

The debut EP — songs carried from a decade of bands into a solo voice.

Unspoken

Unspoken

single · 2025

The latest release — for everything a melody says that words can't.

Basera

Basera

single · 2025 · feat. Navneet R. Singh

A collaboration about the places — and people — we call home.

Manzilein

Manzilein

single · 2024

On destinations, and the roads that matter more than arriving.

"Started as a vocal cover of Kalank. Then a story took shape. A wanderer. A spirit made of golden light. An impossible bridge. A forest that comes alive. I built this scene by scene using AI generation — every frame was a conversation between what I heard in the music and what I could make appear on screen."
— on directing the Kalank / Ranjha AI music video · every song's a frame

AI-directed music videos — where the engineer and the vocalist work the same shift.

tributes & covers

Renditions for the voices I grew up on.

Ranked by likes, not views · YouTube + Instagram · counts as of Oct 4, 2026

#1new
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Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi

"Not much to say here. This song is like a balm to me."

#6new

Manchala

Vishal–Shekhar · Hasee Toh Phasee

"Toy, bond and blade, all in one thread."

#7
#8

Saiyaara

Faheem Abdullah · Saiyaara

A melody that does the aching for you.

#9
#10
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20

Duniya Alag

Arijit Singh · Dhadak 2

"Some songs don't just play — they stay."

#21
#22
#23
live pedigree

Forged in the Lucknow rock scene.

2006

Blitzkrieg Beginz

Prog-rock and rap-metal fusion. A SoundClick chart top-10 before college ended.

2008

Orantem

Gothic and alternative metal — where "Ye Do Jahan" was born.

2011

In Exile

Melodic death metal. The heaviest chapter.

2013

Episode Six

Fusion — and the Lucknow Mahotsav 2014 stage, before ~10,000 people.

the story

One waveform, twenty years.

The two channels were never separate — every band taught me systems, every system taught me rhythm. Read it as one signal.

2006
music

Blitzkrieg Beginz — the first band

Programming, vocals, and lyrics. "Never My Song" peaks at #8 on SoundClick's rap-metal chart.

2008
music

Orantem — gothic metal years

"An epic tale of emotions." Writes "Ye Do Jahan" — a song that will wait twelve years for its release.

2010
tech

First engineering chapter — Lucknow

Team lead at a software house with its own ERP product for textile spinning. Ships 3 ERP systems and 2 iOS apps over five years, all on time.

2014
music

Lucknow Mahotsav — 10,000 people

Episode Six takes a festival mainstage. The biggest crowd of the band years.

2015
both

Mumbai — the move

Episode Six releases "Karle Yakeen"; joins an enterprise commerce platform and begins the architect track.

2019
tech

The pivot to AI

PG Diploma in Data Science (IIIT Bangalore). Ships a trading platform doing 50K+ transactions a day at PHI.

2020
both

Awaaz EP — the solo debut

Four songs, two carried across a decade of bands. Meanwhile: LSTM forecasting models for hedge funds.

2021
tech

M.Sc. Data Science → VP Technology

Liverpool John Moores University. Directs an AI-centric SaaS platform processing 2M+ daily events.

2023
tech

VP Technology — AI & Platform

Three LLM products to production, and a company-wide award for innovation and leadership.

2024
music

Manzilein — the singles era

The solo voice matures: cinematic, soulful, unhurried.

2025
both

Basera, Unspoken — and AI music videos

Two singles ship; the Kalank/Ranjha AI film marks a new medium. The engineer restructures an org around agents; the vocalist directs with them.

now
both

Two frequencies, mixed live

Building AI products by day, releasing music by night, and writing about both — right here.

the blog

Notes from both channels.

Essays and field notes on AI engineering, music-making, and the places they overlap.

tech

Haiku 5.5 thinks like a flagship and bills like a budget model

Claude Haiku 5.5 lands in the same intelligence tier as Kimi K3 and Opus 4.8 on Artificial Analysis, at roughly a ninth and an eighteenth of the cost per task. What that changes for model routing, and what the benchmarks don't tell you yet.

Oct 8, 2026
tech

Adding agents to software you already run

A field guide for teams adding agentic capabilities to an existing platform with open models: when to pick LangGraph, Agno, Pydantic AI or Mastra, where CrewAI, Langflow and Dify fit, and what to check before you ship.

Oct 7, 2026
music

Maaeri: A Love Letter to the Indipop Years

A piano and vocal cover of Euphoria's Maaeri, and a small thank you to the era that made Hindi pop feel like it belonged to us.

Oct 2, 2026
tune in

Pick your frequency.

A monthly letter — ship notes from the AI work, new releases and covers from the music, or both. You choose the channel; I'll keep the signal clean.