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Prathamesh Saraf

Prathamesh Saraf

Senior Software Engineer focused on generative and conversational AI

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Joined February 2026
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Summary

Bridges research and production engineering in cloud and AI systems — combines academic research in cloud workload orchestration with hands-on engineering to build production RAG and conversational AI systems. ac+2
Experienced conversational AI and generative-AI engineer — has led conversational AI at an early-stage product (ChatOwl), built educational chatbots (CBOT), and now contributes to production RAG tooling at TrueFoundry. getprog+2
Active open-source contributor and maintainer mindset — contributes to and debugs production-focused open-source projects (Cognita) and engages with community discussions and issue resolution. github+1
Well-rounded with creative and contemplative pursuits outside work — practices painting, dance, surfing and yoga, and expresses interests in spirituality and personal finance. github+1

Work

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Writing

CARL: Cost-Optimized Online Container Placement on VMs Using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

January 1, 2025

Research presenting CARL, a reinforcement-learning-based approach for online container placement (vector bin-packing) that trains on historical workload traces and demonstrates cost and latency improvements over heuristics; includes Mixture of Experts strategy to improve adaptability.

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Hobbies

Interested in spirituality, yoga, and finance. truefoundry

Enjoys painting, dance, surfing, skiing, and gardening. github