Principal SWE, Applied AI
Krishnam Gupta
I build AI that ships to millions in healthcare - from diagnostic pipelines behind 1.3M+ tests across 12+ countries to LLM systems guiding 50,000+ users through care.

About
Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI at Audere. 9+ years building production AI across computer vision, LLMs, and robotics. Published researcher (7 papers, 1 patent). Peer reviewer for Nature Communications, IEEE, and ACM venues. MS + BTech from IIIT Hyderabad.
Experience
Audere
2022 - PresentPrincipal SWE, Applied AI - Seattle, WA (Remote from SF)
- Architected CV pipeline behind 1.3M+ rapid diagnostic tests (malaria, HIV, COVID) across 15+ countries
- Led rule-based to deep learning migration: sensitivity 82% to 94%, specificity >99%
- Designed structured extraction from 30,000+ WhatsApp conversations (120+ clinical fields)
- Built LLM evaluation framework benchmarking 11+ models, cut costs 50-63%
- Designed multi-provider LLM fallback with open-weight models at 80%+ lower cost, with production guardrails including content moderation and clinician escalation
- Co-authored 3 peer-reviewed papers on diagnostic AI while shipping production systems
Mfine
2019 - 2022Lead Data Scientist - Bangalore, India
- AI differential diagnosis system serving 100K+ consultations/month
- Skin disease recognition: SOTA +5% (ICPR 2020 paper)
- Led team of 4 data scientists across CV and NLP
- Built smartphone-based PPG system for pulse rate and oxygen saturation - remote vitals without specialized hardware (patent pending)
Microsoft Bing
2017 - 2019Research Engineer - Hyderabad, India
- Search relevance and ranking models serving billions of daily queries
- Developed ML features for query-document matching and click-through rate prediction at web scale
Publications & Patents
Healthcare AI
Robotics & Vision
Awards & Peer Review
- -Stanford T.H.I.N.K 2026 - Poster presentations on LLM evaluation and clinical data extraction
- -Finalist, 12th Aegis Graham Bell Awards - Innovation in Diagnostics
- -Dean's Merit List - All 4 undergraduate years, IIIT Hyderabad
- -Reviewer, Nature Communications
- -Reviewer, CADL Workshop at ICPR 2020
- -Reviewer, SASIGD 2026
- -Invited Reviewer, AIiH 2026 (Imperial College London)
Projects
SitePulse
AI-powered 3D site assessment for humanitarian clinics. Three.js + Gaussian Splats + Claude.
Next.js, Three.js, Claude API
VLA Edge
Toolkit to profile, optimize, and deploy Vision-Language-Action models to edge hardware like Jetson Orin Nano.
Python, PyTorch, TensorRT, llama.cpp
Physical AI
Teaching robots to pour 50ml via imitation learning. LeRobot + ACT policy.
Python, LeRobot, ACT
Impact
1.3M+
diagnostic tests powered
12+
countries deployed
50,000+
users served
30,000+
LLM conversations
7
publications, 65 citations
Let's Connect
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