Manav Israni · Software & AI Engineer · Melbourne · Open to work
I build AI systems
that actually ship.
Voice agents that made real calls. Clinical tools real doctors used. Three published papers along the way. Currently doing a Master of Data Science at the University of Melbourne.
01 · Experience
Where I've shipped
Voice agents that dialled real customers, clinical tools real doctors used, and plenty of plain software in between.
AI & Web Consultant · Atlas Counsel
May 2026 – PresentMelbourne, Australia · Remote · Part-time
- Advising on and building AI-powered tooling and web systems for a legal consultancy.
AI/ML Engineer · Square Yards
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025Mumbai, India · Full-time
- Built a Voice Agent Studio that turns a plain script into a deployable outbound AI caller in under 10 minutes, with counter-prompt generation, testing and refinement built in. WebSockets at the core, VOIP through Twilio and Ozonetel.
- Shipped a multilingual outbound caller on Twilio, Gemini and ElevenLabs that talks to real-estate leads in several Indian languages and gives them personalised suggestions.
- Set up structured post-call reports that the ops team used to tune campaigns and follow up on leads.
AI Engineer (Intern) · Nihin Media K.K.
Dec 2024 – May 2025Tokyo, Japan · Remote · Internship
- Built a Radiology Assistant: agents that read imaging, symptoms and patient history together, then suggest likely diagnoses with the clinical reasoning spelled out. Grounded in Japanese medical sources, PubMed and PMC.
- Cut hallucination in medical agents by grounding every answer in reliable sources with traceable references.
- Tuned MedGen's RAG retrieval for medical queries by testing different embedding setups.
Generative AI Engineer (Intern) · DisruptiveNext (Phoenixgen)
Dec 2024 – Jan 2025Pune, India · Remote · Internship
- Worked on LLM- and agent-based generative AI solutions.
Software Engineer (Intern) · C1X Inc.
Sep 2023 – Jan 2024Chennai, India · Internship
- Built content-based and BERT-based recommendation systems for OrgFarm, covering 1,100+ organic products and 25,000+ users.
- Improved recommendation precision with BERT embeddings on AWS, lifting user engagement by 8%.
Data Science Intern · Capabl (Elite Techno Groups)
Jun 2023 – Jul 2023Bangalore, India · Remote · Internship
- Developed and evaluated 3+ ML models on 50k+ row datasets; preprocessing and feature engineering improved accuracy by up to 15%.
Toolbox
Languages
AI / ML
Systems & Cloud
Highlights
Amazon ML Summer School
Selected for Amazon's 4-week ML program: deep learning, PGMs, sequential models, causal inference and RL, taught by Amazon scientists.
Jul 2024
ACM India Summer School · IIT Gandhinagar
Two weeks at IIT Gandhinagar on LLMs: RLHF, in-context learning, CoT, prompt engineering, RAG and responsible AI.
Jun – Jul 2024
Krypthon Hackathon Winner
Healthcare-domain hackathon winner at VIT Chennai.
Mar 2023
HackOverflow Hackathon Finalist
Full-stack build, VIT Chennai.
Oct 2022
02 · Projects
Things I've built
Featured work up top; the rest of the grid syncs automatically with my GitHub, stars included.
Live from GitHub · top picks
03 · Research
Peer-reviewed publications
Three first-author papers in 2025, published with IEEE and Springer. Computer vision, multi-agent systems and medical AI.
04 · Writing
I write about AI, in plain English
Voice agents, LLM security, structured outputs and whatever else I'm currently obsessed with. On Medium and Substack.
+ 5 more pieces where these came from
05 · Education
Education & beyond
The University of Melbourne
2026 – 2028Master of Data Science
Melbourne, Australia
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
2021 – 2025B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
CGPA 8.92 / 10
Beyond the code
When I'm not at a keyboard I'm usually outside: trekking, hiking or camping, ideally somewhere with no phone signal. I play football whenever I get the chance. At work, the things people seem to value me for beyond code are writing clearly, getting along with very different teams across countries, and taking ownership without being asked.
06 · Contact
Let's build something
Hiring, collaborating, or just want to talk agents and LLMs? My inbox is open.
Email is the fastest way to reach me. I usually reply within a day. You can also find me on any of these:
works.imanav@gmail.comMelbourne, Australia