Saiteja Dommeti

Founder & CEO · AI Engineer · Former CTO · Tech Enthusiast · Nature Lover

From writing flight software for an IIT Madras satellite to building AI tutors for India’s classrooms.

Hyderabad, India · teja.3b@gmail.com · LinkedIn

A one-page résumé leaves out most of it. Here’s the long version.

2012 – 2017

01 Launch

It started with a satellite

At IIT Madras I studied Engineering Design, majoring in mechatronics, robotics and automation, and spent two years heading the Command & Data Management System of IITMSAT, the student-built nano-satellite. That’s the on-board computer: it decodes telecommands from the ground station and sends back time-stamped telemetry.

Systems engineering under hard constraints: international space standards, fixed hardware, a fixed budget.

Ran a team inside a student satellite programme: planning, sourcing, delivery.

Where I learned that learning technology is about people, not the technology.

32-bit ARM, embedded C, telecommand decoding, telemetry packets. The IEEE paper has the design.

CDMS Head

Mar 2015 – May 2017

IITMSAT — IIT Madras student satellite · Chennai

Headed the Command & Data Management System — the satellite’s on-board computer — and its flight software.
Designed software within international space standards and hardware limits; built the module in-house, well under budget.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2012 – 2017

Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Engineering Design · Mechatronics, Robotics & Automation

Beyond the one-pager

IITMSAT’s mission: study how high-energy protons and electrons from the Van Allen belts rain down into low Earth orbit, using the SPEED payload, and look for links with seismic activity.
The on-board computer ran on a 32-bit ARM microcontroller (Freescale KL46Z); I wrote its flight software in embedded C and sourced the space-grade hardware.
Co-authored “Design of Command and Data Management System for IITMSAT”, IEEE IconSpace 2015, Langkawi, Malaysia.

An invention on the side

A variable-speed mechanism that removes chain shifting from bicycles: a mechatronics student’s itch, scratched.

My first lesson in learning tech

I built an app that helped students with cerebral palsy navigate friendships. It taught me that technology in learning is about people. That lesson is why Trivo AI Labs exists.

IEEE paper

Skills unlockedEmbedded C / ARMSpace systems

Illustration: telecommands go up, telemetry comes down.

2017 – 2018

02 First orbits

A year of helping other people launch

After graduating I spent a year as the technical hand for first-time founders in Chennai: writing the software, modelling the business, getting it out the door.

Shipped full-stack products end to end, from code to launch.

Early exposure to four zero-to-one launches across very different markets.

My first brush with ed-tech: helping Mask Academy launch.

Full-stack generalist year: whatever the launch needed.

Startup Consultant

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018

Early-stage startups · PutPeace.com, FoodStreet.in, Mask Academy (ed-tech), a pub aggregator · Chennai

Wrote software, modelled businesses and helped first-time founders launch across student services, food-tech and ed-tech.

Beyond the one-pager

PutPeace.com (student services), FoodStreet.in (food-tech), Mask Academy (ed-tech) and a pub aggregator.

Skills unlockedFull-stack & front-endProduct ownership

Four launches in a year.

2018 – 2021

03 Seeing

Teaching machines to see clothes

Fashion is a wildly vast and subjective domain, and that makes it a hard computer-vision problem. At Piktorlabs, a product lab later acquired by UST, I led the vision work for a virtual fitting room, built 2D virtual try-on, and built an engine that finds products that look alike.

Three years of production computer vision: try-on, fitting, visual search.

Deep technical grounding in vision before founding a robotics-perception startup.

Learned how much ‘subjective’ data needs human judgement, a theme that comes back in assessment.

GAN + CNN hybrids, CBIR, and a TensorFlow-GPU source build for RTX 2080.

Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2018 – Feb 2021

Piktorlabs · product lab, later acquired by UST · Bengaluru

Led computer-vision work on a Virtual Fitting Room for fashion retail, using custom GAN and CNN hybrid models.
Built 2D-image Virtual Try-On and a Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) engine for visual product discovery.
Applied and adapted CNN architectures to a vast, subjective domain.

Beyond the one-pager

Content-based image retrieval: search a catalogue by what an item looks like, not what it is tagged as.
Built TensorFlow-GPU from source for an RTX 2080 and published how on Medium.

Medium notes

Skills unlockedComputer VisionDeep Learning (CNNs)Retrieval & matchingTensorFlow (GPU/CUDA builds)PythonRetail

Illustration: a garment fitted onto a figure; look-alike products grouped together.

2021 – 2022

04 Building

Self-cooking kitchens

Entrepreneur First selected me into its deep-tech founder programme. Alongside it I co-founded EatX: an AI brain to scale and automate commercial kitchens, the way self-driving cars automate roads.

Architected and built a full SaaS suite as co-founder, plus the AI for robotic cooking.

First company: deep-tech, hardware-adjacent, and a 25% cut in operating cost for kitchens.

Building a company taught me how teams learn fast under pressure.

Perception ideas from self-driving cars plus general-purpose industrial robotics.

Co-Founder

Feb 2021 – Jul 2022

EatX · AI for autonomous commercial kitchens · Bengaluru

Designed, architected and built the company’s SaaS suite for restaurant and food businesses.
Developed AI tools for self-cooking kitchens, combining perception from self-driving cars with industrial robotics.
Reduced operational costs by 25% through autonomous-kitchen solutions.

Founder in Residence

Feb 2021 – Jun 2022

Entrepreneur First · deep-tech talent investor · Bengaluru

Selected into EF’s highly competitive deep-tech founder programme.

Skills unlockedSaaS architectureFounder & CEOFood-tech & robotics

Illustration: a robot arm, perception boxes, and a lower operating cost.

2022 – 2024

05 Language

When words became data

YourStory is India’s leading startup media platform. I built the NLP pipelines that helped create, categorise and check its content, with people in the loop where judgement mattered, just as large language models arrived.

53% more automated content and 50%+ AI-tool adoption in two quarters.

Saw from inside a newsroom how fast GenAI changes real work.

Human-in-the-loop by design: the machine drafts, people judge. Same principle as Trivo.

Production NLP: generation, classification and QA pipelines with review loops.

Machine Learning Engineer

Oct 2022 – Jun 2024

YourStory Media · India’s leading startup media platform · Bengaluru

Built NLP pipelines for content creation, categorisation and quality assurance with human-in-the-loop review.
Increased automated content creation by 53%, and grew AI-tool adoption by 50%+ within two quarters.
Mentored junior engineers on ML methods and tooling; researched emerging AI to guide company strategy.

Skills unlockedNLP & GenAIHuman-in-the-loop QATeam mentoringMedia & content

Illustration: headlines sorted into categories, with an editor in the loop.

2025 – 2026

06 Leading

From building systems to running them

As CTO of WellOSity I owned the technology strategy and tied the roadmap to the business. Then, independently, I helped startups decide what AI to adopt, what to build versus buy, and how to get ready for SOC compliance.

C-level technology ownership: strategy, roadmap, delivery practices, stakeholders.

Has sat in the CTO seat, and has advised founders on AI and compliance.

Build-versus-buy is exactly the decision colleges face with AI today.

Architecture and integration for customer networks; deployment practices that stuck.

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

WellOSity · SaaS for the wellness industry · Hyderabad

Owned technology strategy and aligned the roadmap with business objectives.
Designed and integrated technology solutions for customer networks, improving operations and user experience.
Introduced project-management and deployment practices that improved delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.

Consultant — AI & SOC Compliance

Sep 2025 – Jul 2026

Startups (independent) · including Zoniqx · Hyderabad

Advised startups on AI adoption strategy, build-vs-buy decisions and SOC compliance readiness.

Skills unlockedCTO / tech strategySOC compliance

Illustration: an architecture coming together along a roadmap.

2026 –

07 Now

Building AI for how India learns

Before writing any code, I spent time with students, faculty and decision-makers at tier-2 and tier-3 colleges, where most of India studies. Students already learn with AI. Teachers are asking what their role is when explanation is free. Leaders are weighing placements, assessment and budgets without a playbook. And most of the AI they use was built elsewhere.

Current role: founder and CEO, setting product and technology from the first line of research.

Fieldwork-led, early, and focused on the trust, assessment and access layers.

We build with institutions: tutors in Indian languages, assessment AI can’t fake, teacher upskilling.

Teacher agents and phone-first tutors in Indian languages: hard multilingual and low-bandwidth problems.

Founder & CEO

May 2026 – Present

Trivo AI Labs · AI for education in India · Hyderabad

Ran field research with students, faculty and decision-makers at tier-2 and tier-3 colleges across India before writing any code; findings defined the product brief.
Building teacher agents and phone-first AI tutors in Indian languages for institutions.
Designing assessment AI can’t fake — oral defences, live builds and portfolio reviews — plus skill credentials an employer can actually read.
Running teacher-upskilling programmes so human time goes to mentoring and judgement.

Beyond the one-pager

Vision: a world where learning stays a human practice, amplified by AI and open to everyone.
Mission: build the trust, assessment and access layers for the agent era, starting with AI as an add-on to how India teaches and learns, and working toward an AI core designed and trained in India.

Step into the thought experiment

Skills unlockedAI agents & tutorsEducation & skilling

oral defences
live builds
portfolio reviews

Illustration: fieldwork first, then a tutor that speaks the student’s language.

Impact

53%more automated contentYourStory Media

50%+AI-tool adoption in two quartersYourStory Media

25%lower operating costEatX

9years of production AIresearch → shipped products

2startups foundedEatX · Trivo AI Labs

The toolbox

Collected along the way. Point at a skill to see where it was earned.

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Tech enthusiast · Nature lover

Beyond work

An ardent believer in an optimistic future, where technology meets efficiency and raises the happiness of all species, giving back to humanity and to nature.

Speaks English, Telugu and Hindi.

Hiring for AI leadership or senior ML?

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Leading a college, teaching, or shaping policy?

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Want to build something together?

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Let’s talk

Whatever brought you here: hiring, building, backing, or teaching, I’d like to hear from you.

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Saiteja Dommeti

It started with a satellite

CDMS Head

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

A year of helping other people launch

Startup Consultant

Teaching machines to see clothes

Machine Learning Engineer

Self-cooking kitchens

Co-Founder

Founder in Residence

When words became data

Machine Learning Engineer

From building systems to running them

Chief Technology Officer

Consultant — AI & SOC Compliance

Building AI for how India learns

Founder & CEO

Impact

The toolbox

AI & ML

Engineering

Leadership

Domains

Beyond work

Hiring for AI leadership or senior ML?

Building or backing AI for education?

Leading a college, teaching, or shaping policy?

Want to build something together?

Let’s talk

Saiteja Dommeti

Profile

Experience

Impact

Skills

Education

Publications & inventions

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