Nitesh Methani

Hi, I'm Nitesh 👋

I'm currently based in Bangalore, where I focus on building Generative AI systems that can replicate human reasoning and decision-making—but at massive scale and lightning speed. What excites me most is creating AI that doesn't just follow rules, but actually understands context, learns from nuance, and delivers measurable business impact.

Most recently, in 2024, I joined Sarvam as an early team member working on Agent & Conversation Analytics which turns raw transcripts into rich insights leading to better customer experience and operational efficiency. We're building a data flywheel where every conversation makes our AI agents smarter and more valuable to businesses.

From 2020-2024, I spent most of my waking hours (and a decent number of my sleeping ones) thinking about using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning models to parse millions of addresses at Amazon so that packages actually get shipped to the right doorstep—without making drivers circle around neighborhoods or get bitten by dogs because of missing delivery hints. I worked along with the Address Intelligence team and published my work in Amazon Science.

From 2018-2020, I worked on my Master's at IIT Madras and created PlotQA—a visual question answering dataset with 28.9 million question-answer pairs over 224,000+ scientific plots. The goal was to teach machines to reason over complex data visualizations the way humans do, moving beyond simple chart reading to actual analytical thinking.

I was fortunate to work under the guidance of Mitesh Khapra and Pratyush Kumar, whose expertise in deep learning and NLP shaped my approach to building AI systems that can truly understand and reason. During that time, I also worked as Project Associate at The Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI (RBCDSAI).

In my free time, I've been reading about consumer behavior and neuromarketing. Every so often, I'll reverse-engineer popular multi-agent systems like Claude Code and Cursor, or mess around trying to build mobile apps that either narrate historical stories in Gandalf's voice or work as conversational chatbots to help learn a new language.

Get in touch: If you'd like to connect, you can reach out to me at initeshmethani@gmail.com or on Twitter.