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Neeraj Kumar

Neeraj Kumar

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CTO @ Lifelong Online — Building AI-Native Operations at Scale

From India's first agentic AI ERP at HostBooks (500K+ clients, 5K+ enterprises) to AI-native operations at Lifelong. A decade building platforms at scale. IIT (BHU) '16.

500K+

Clients Served

60+

Engineers Led

70%

Workflow Automation

10+

Years Building

Featured Work

Agentic AI ERP Suite (Zeno AI)

Led transformation from cloud ERP to AI-native platform. Conversational AI layer orchestrating RAG, AP/AR automation, MCP, and Financial Insights for enterprise workflows.

5K+ enterprises70% workflow reductionMulti-model LLM orchestration
LangChainClaudeLLMAgentsMCP

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Enterprise RAG System

Hybrid retrieval pipeline with Dense + SPLADE + BM25 and cross-encoder reranking. Processing 10M+ document embeddings at production scale.

10M+ embeddings95% resolution rateSub-50ms latency
QdrantSPLADEBM25Cross-encoderFastAPI

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MCP Integration Platform

Pioneered Model Context Protocol integration with 17 ERP tools across 6 categories. OAuth 2.1 + PKCE auth. Part of 50+ tool ecosystem.

17 MCP tools6 categoriesOAuth 2.1 secured
MCPFastMCPSSETool Use

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AP/AR Automation (GenAI)

Format-agnostic invoice processing replacing template-based OCR. PaddleOCR + NER + LLM pipeline reducing processing from 30 minutes to 20 seconds.

30 min → 20 sec95%+ accuracyFormat-agnostic
OCRNERLLMFastAPIPostgreSQL

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HostBooks ERP Suite

Built from first line of code as sole technical architect. Full platform: accounting, payroll, HR, CRM, POS, inventory, fleet management, compliance.

500K+ clients85% back-office automation5 continents
JavaSpring BootKafkaPostgreSQLAWS

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NN Whisper — macOS AI Voice Assistant

Native Swift macOS menu bar app: voice → STT → agentic AI (tool calling) → TTS. 50+ tools, MCP client, screen understanding, wake word, local-first.

50+ toolsMCP clientFully local option
SwiftWhisperKitCoreMLMCPAgents

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Other Projects

ML Bank Reconciliation

Automated bank transaction matching using XGBoost and scikit-learn. Pattern learning from historical reconciliation data with fuzzy string matching and confidence scoring.

XGBoostscikit-learnPython

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Product Recommendation Engine

Collaborative filtering-based recommendation system for e-commerce. User-item interaction matrices, cosine similarity scoring with content-based fallback.

Collaborative Filteringscikit-learnPython

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Invoice Processing v1 (OCR)

Template-based invoice extraction using PaddleOCR. Structured field extraction from scanned documents. Foundation for the later GenAI reimagination.

PaddleOCRNERPython

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Financial Insights Engine

AI-driven forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit analysis. Automated loan underwriting and risk profiling for enterprise clients.

PyTorchTime SeriesFastAPI

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Neural Neeraj Video Pipeline

Automated video generation: AI script, TTS (Kokoro/Qwen3), Whisper captions, Imagen backgrounds, Remotion render, YouTube/Instagram.

RemotionTTSImagenVeomlx-whisper

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Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Lifelong Online

Apr 2026 – Present

Architecting the AI-native operations backbone for one of India's largest consumer durables brands. Unified data and decision platform turning operational signals from commerce, supply chain, and partner channels into automated outcomes.

AI-native opsData platformsAgentic systemsEngineering leadership

VP of AI Engineering

HostBooks Limited

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026

Platform-wide LLM orchestration. AI-first engineering culture. Strategic scaling of agentic AI across the enterprise.

60+ engineersAI strategyLLM orchestration

DGM — Engineering & Product

HostBooks Limited

Jul 2023 – Aug 2025

Led AI-native transformation. Shipped Zeno AI, GenAI-powered AP/AR, Enterprise RAG (10M+ embeddings), and MCP integration. Managed Series B due diligence.

AI transformationZeno AISeries BRAG

Chief Manager — Engineering & Product

HostBooks Limited

Dec 2021 – Jul 2023

API-first architecture. Banking integrations. Scaled ML reconciliation. Built Invoice Processing v1 with PaddleOCR. Achieved 85%+ back-office automation.

API-first85% automationOCR pipeline

Senior Developer → Technical Project Lead

HostBooks Limited

Aug 2019 – Dec 2021

Designed core ERP modules: accounting, payroll, inventory, fleet, POS. Built first production ML model (bank reconciliation with XGBoost). 10,000+ concurrent tenants.

Platform architectFirst ML model10K tenants

Software Developer

CodeFire Technologies (HostBooks project)

Aug 2017 – Jul 2019

Sole technical architect — designed and built the HostBooks ERP from the ground up. Classical ML projects: recommendation engines, document classification, NLP tools.

Sole architectERP from scratchClassical ML

Software Engineer

Redian Software LLC

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017

Enterprise solutions for banking, finance, healthcare, and retail. Backtesting frameworks and wealth management platforms. First exposure to enterprise-grade system design.

Enterprise solutionsWealth managementSystem design

B.Tech

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi

2012 – 2016

Tech Stack

AI/ML

LangChainLangGraphRAGMCPClaudeGPTEmbeddingsQdrant

Backend

PythonFastAPIJavaSpring BootRustAxum

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptFlutter

Infrastructure

AWSKubernetesDockerKafkaRedisPostgreSQL

Observability

OpenTelemetryGrafanaPrometheusLangfuse

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