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.

3
Peer-reviewed publications
20+
Open-source projects
9
Technical articles
4+
AI roles across 3 countries

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 – Present

Melbourne, Australia · Remote · Part-time

  • Advising on and building AI-powered tooling and web systems for a legal consultancy.
LLMsWeb

AI/ML Engineer · Square Yards

Jun 2025 – Dec 2025

Mumbai, 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.
TwilioGeminiElevenLabsWebSocketsVAD

AI Engineer (Intern) · Nihin Media K.K.

Dec 2024 – May 2025

Tokyo, 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.
Multi-agentRAGPubMed/PMCHealthcare AI

Generative AI Engineer (Intern) · DisruptiveNext (Phoenixgen)

Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

Pune, India · Remote · Internship

  • Worked on LLM- and agent-based generative AI solutions.
LLMsAI Agents

Software Engineer (Intern) · C1X Inc.

Sep 2023 – Jan 2024

Chennai, 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%.
BERTAWSRecommenders

Data Science Intern · Capabl (Elite Techno Groups)

Jun 2023 – Jul 2023

Bangalore, India · Remote · Internship

  • Developed and evaluated 3+ ML models on 50k+ row datasets; preprocessing and feature engineering improved accuracy by up to 15%.
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Toolbox

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC/C++SQL

AI / ML

LLMs & AgentsLangChainLangGraphAutoGenHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorchRAG & RetrievalVoice AI (Twilio · ElevenLabs · VAD)

Systems & Cloud

FastAPINestJSNext.jsPostgreSQLAWSGCPDockerKubernetesMLflow

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.

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.

05 · Education

Education & beyond

The University of Melbourne

2026 – 2028

Master of Data Science

Melbourne, Australia

Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

2021 – 2025

B.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.

TrekkingHikingCampingNatureFootballResearch writing & managementCross-cultural collaboration (India · Japan · Australia)Clear technical communicationOwnership & fast iteration

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.com

Melbourne, Australia