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    Soham Railkar

    Soham Railkar (He/Him)

    Deploying AI on edge devices

    Android Developer Mumbai University Of Mumbai '15
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    Experience
    Akeso Eyecare
    Akeso Eyecare
    Android Staff Engieer 2024 - Present (over 2 years)
    Ported gaze estimation deep learning models from Python to production C++ pipelines on Windows and Android, enabling real-time inference on edge devices.
    Achieved 4x performance... more improvement on deep learning models through quantization, operator fusion, and ONNX Runtime optimization — without sacrificing accuracy.
    Designed a robust on-device calibration pipeline with custom algorithms, improving per-user gaze accuracy and cutting setup time.
    Built an on-device fine-tuning system in C++ using ONNX Runtime, enabling per-user model personalization without server dependency.
    Shipped cross-platform native SDKs (Windows C++, Android NDK) consumed by downstream product teams.
    Orbo.ai
    Orbo.ai
    Mobile Dev. Lead and Sr. Android Developer 2017 - 2024 (about 7 years)
    Fork Media
    Fork Media
    Android Developer 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)
    CareNX Innovations
    CareNX Innovations
    Android Developer 2015 - 2016 (5 months)
    Founder
     
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    Fork Media, CareNX Innovations, Orbo.ai, Akeso Eyecare
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    About
    Achievements

    Shipped 5+ production SDKs at Orbo.AI and Akeso across computer vision and deep learning domains — including SuperTouch (real-time face AR), AllScan (on-device OCR + NLP for medicine tags), Antispoofing, BankKYC, and Super-Resolution, all running natively on Android/edge devices.

    Achieved 4x performance gains on gaze estimation DL models through framework-level optimization (ONNX Runtime, quantization, operator fusion) while preserving accuracy — enabling real-time inference on consumer hardware.

    Built an on-device fine-tuning pipeline in C++ using ONNX Runtime, allowing DL models to personalize per-user without any server dependency.

    Pioneered end-to-end on-device AI pipelines combining detection, OCR, and NLP (AllScan medicine tag extractor) — eliminating cloud round-trips and enabling offline-first products.

    Founder, OurDahanu (ourdahanu.in) — built and owned the full stack of a hyperlocal marketplace with custom subdomains serving a 30,000+ community

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Java Adobe After Effects Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Android
    Locations
    Asia New York City India Boston Silicon Valley Bengaluru Navi Mumbai San Francisco
     
    Q&A
    What's your favorite non-business book?

    The monk who sold his Ferrari

    What words of advice would you give your younger self?

    Limit++

    What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

    Made a music video on my own and played all 6 roles.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD090ma-lpM

    Which founders or startups do you most admire?

    CareNX and ForkMedia

    What's your super power?

    Getting shit done

    What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

    facebook

    What words of wisdom do you live by?

    My opinions are always changing

    What was the most impactful class you took in school?

    Enginnering Drawing

    What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

    Gym

    What's an obstacle you've overcome?

    Living away from home

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