Charangan Vasantharajan

Iterate.ai via Rippling Canada Services Inc. — Toronto, ON

• Lead a 12-engineer cross-functional organization spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, and AI/ML; scaled the team from 6, led 6 hires, promoted 2 ICs to Senior Applied AI Engineer, and mentored 4 engineers plus 3 interns.
• Drive engineering execution for Generate, Iterate.ai's flagship AI platform — winner of Pinnacle AI Product of the Year 2025 and TMC Generative AI Product of the Year 2025, with Iterate.ai named to the CRN AI 100 (Top 20 Hottest AI Software Companies, 2026).
• Launched Generate for healthcare revenue recovery via an IBM reseller partnership with Hutchinson Regional Healthcare as the flagship customer; featured in IBM's product blog.
• Own end-to-end architecture across cloud, on-prem, and edge (AWS, IBM Cloud, Intel/AMD/NVIDIA), enabling both SaaS and air-gapped enterprise deployments.

Iterate.ai — Remote, Canada

• Joined as engineering manager on a direct contract; took ownership of a 5-engineer cross-functional team and defined the engineering roadmap that scaled Generate into Iterate.ai's primary enterprise revenue product.
• Set technical strategy, architecture standards, and development practices in collaboration with the CTO and product leadership; established the engineering operating model later inherited by the full-time team.
• Architected an event-driven microservices platform (Kafka, FastAPI, LangGraph) supporting high-throughput AI workloads across SaaS and air-gapped enterprise deployments.

Iterate.ai — Hamilton, Canada (Remote)

• Led a 5-engineer team for Project Generate, an edge-deployed AI for private document search on Intel AI PCs, shipping through the Intel Software Advantage Program.
• Architected an Outlook RAG plugin for email automation; presented at the Intel Vision 2024 keynote.
• Developed a novel table extraction system using Non-Maximum Suppression with Vision Language Models; filed US Patent App. No. 18/590,347.

ExentAI — Sri Lanka (Remote)

• Designed and deployed a newspaper digitization service for historical documents with automated pipelines for article separation, metadata extraction, and OCR text processing.
• Built a multilingual translation layer over the OCR pipeline, normalizing Tamil, Sinhala, and English content for downstream classification and search.
• Architected cloud deployment on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS) supporting large-scale data volumes.

Simplyfai, Inc. — Sri Lanka (Remote)

• Analyzed acoustic and time-series sensor data from rotating machinery (gearboxes, wheels, fans, valves, belts) to identify fault signatures; built Python fault-classification models wired into the diagnostic product pipeline.
• Implemented an anomaly detection system for industrial equipment, supporting predictive maintenance and reducing unplanned downtime.

ExentAI — Sri Lanka (Remote)

• Built end-to-end LLM pipelines for sentiment and emotion analysis on customer product reviews, surfacing aspect-level issues for product enhancement.
• Developed multi-class, multi-label hate-speech detection models for mitigating abusive content on social platforms.

Nanyang Technological University — Sri Lanka (Remote)

• Pre-trained MedBERT, a domain-specific biomedical language model for clinical entity extraction; released on HuggingFace with 50,000+ downloads.
• Engineered a biomedical entity extraction system from clinical notes, generating automated clinical summaries for medical staff review.
• Released NERP, a Python framework for transformer-based NER models, on PyPI to streamline research pipeline development.

SSN College of Engineering — Chennai, India (Remote)

• Collaborated with professors and graduate researchers across India and Ireland to build a large-scale Tamil emotion detection dataset (30+ classes, 60,000+ annotated sentences) for a public shared task.
• Co-organized the Dravidian-CodeMix-FIRE 2021 shared task on sentiment analysis for low-resource Dravidian languages.

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

• Digital Signal Processing (COMP ENG 4TL4) — Labs, grading, and exams.

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

• Image Processing (COMP ENG 4TN4) — Tutorials and lab sessions on computer vision.

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

• Electromagnetics II (ELECENG 3FK4) — Lab sessions, tutorials, and grading.

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

• Programming Fundamentals (CS1033) — Lab sessions, grading, and quizzes.

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

• Introduction to Data Science (CS3121) — Graded quizzes and assignments.

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

• Deep Neural Networks (CS3630) — Graded quizzes and assignments.