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.

Duniya Alag

Arijit Singh

"Ek chaand tu, main raat ki daastaan hoon."

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

What I learned restructuring an engineering org around AI agents

We didn't add agents to our workflow — we rebuilt the workflow around them. Here's what actually changed, what broke, and what I'd do differently.

Jul 5, 2026
music

Every song's a frame: how I direct AI music videos

The Kalank cover started as a vocal take and became an animated film — a wanderer, a spirit of golden light, an impossible bridge. Here's my scene-by-scene process.

Jun 20, 2026
techmusic

Mixing consoles and microservices — one discipline, two crafts

Twenty years of doing both taught me they're the same job: take a system of many small decisions and make it feel like one inevitable thing.

May 28, 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.