Hi, I'm Jitesh.
AI/ML engineer. Eight years across Japan and India. I build things at the intersection of computer vision, agentic LLM systems, and the cross-cultural delivery work that makes them ship.
The arc, briefly
I grew up in India, studied electrical engineering at IIT Bombay, and moved to Japan straight after graduation in 2017. I wanted to learn the language and live somewhere that would change how I think. It did both.
Six years later I came back to India to lead engineering work at Sony's software center in Bangalore, where I bridge teams across both countries. I'm JLPT N2 in Japanese, and the language is one of the most valuable tools I carry into engineering rooms.
What I work on
Computer vision and synthetic data are my home turf. I've trained object-detection and segmentation models for autonomous trucks at Hino, for CAD blueprints at Pasona, and for camera systems at Sony. When the training data didn't exist, I built it from scratch using Blender, Unreal Engine, and OpenCV, often visiting customer sites to teach the method.
Lately I'm spending more time on agentic LLM systems and applied NLP.
I've published an open emotion-classification model on Hugging Face that
is widely downloaded, and I ship Python tools on PyPI:
secscan-tool,
an automated web security scanner with AI-tailored remediation, plus the
small utilities (printj, pyjeasy, jaitool)
that the friction in my own work called for.
Why cross-cultural work matters to me
The hardest part of shipping ML is rarely the model. It's the conversation between the people who define the problem and the people who solve it. That conversation is harder when one side speaks Japanese and the other speaks English, and when both sides assume the other group fully understands what they meant.
My career has lived in that gap. At Honda Research Institute I coordinated partner teams in Spain, Australia, and Japan to ship three apps on the Haru social robot, now deployed at 10+ research institutions globally. At Sony, I help teams in Tokyo and Bangalore actually understand each other.
Outside engineering
I sketch, model, and animate in 3D. I play chess, badly but enthusiastically. I read philosophy because the patterns there often clarify how I think about systems. I travel when I can, and I keep a small Japanese-learning project alive at japanesecompass.com for fellow learners taking the JLPT.
You'll find more of me scattered around the internet: 3D models on Sketchfab, videos on YouTube, chess games on Chess.com, and the occasional photo on Instagram.
What I'm looking for now
I'm open to AI Product roles and technical leadership conversations, especially with teams shipping at the edges of computer vision, agentic systems, or robotics. I work best on problems that are genuinely cross-functional, where translating ambiguity into a working thing is half the job.
The fastest way to reach me is email, or via the contact page.