Ashwin Baluja

Founding Research Engineer @ Poetiq

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Founding Research Engineer at Poetiq
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Building AGI via recursive self improvement.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon
    Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

    Built a campaign marketing campaign visibility tool for the Prime Video notification system.

  • AI Engineering Intern at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Implemented a comprehensive fuzzing-based for data engineering in a consumer goods company's digital transformation. Led knowledge transfer sessions with the client team.

  • Summer Scholar, National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Jun 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Developed radiography analysis tools for images of nuclear fusion taken by the Crystal Backlighter Imager at the National Ignition Facility.

  • Founder, CEO, Technical Lead at Convoice
    Mar 2023 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr

    Led startup direction, ran customer inteviews, decided strategy. Built telephony services, adapted machine learning models in speech, LLM, and NLP for production use.