SLMs are being massively underestimated in the SME market
Newer frontier models ship weekly, but most SME workflows don't need frontier intelligence — they need cheap, reliable extraction, classification, and routing.…
BuilderBuilding agentic infra @ Sparkonomy
Naad Dantale — Software & ML Engineer
Building the agentic layer underneath the creator economy.
I'm Naad — a software and ML engineer in Pune. As founding engineer at Sparkonomy I build AI agents and the systems around them that take the admin off creators' plates. Previously co-founded StepNex. I write code that makes sense, not just code that works, and build for coherence over velocity.
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Smollan
Constituents AI
IEEE CS
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A system, not a résumé.
A snapshot of what I'm building, where I am, and what I'm into right now — rendered live where it can be.
Currently buildingFounding Engineer · Apr 2025 → now
Sparkonomy
The agentic intelligence layer underneath the creator economy — AI agents that don't just generate, but read, reason, call tools, and take admin work off creators' plates. I own the AI infra and scalable systems that turn capable models into dependable agents.
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Pune, India
Building for a creator economy with no postal code.
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Published research
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts LLMs for Efficient ICD Code Prediction
IEEE ↗Off the keyboard
Marathoner, rock climber, and mountaineer. The interesting part always starts after you think you're done.
6th · Vedanta Pink City Half Marathon
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Writing about how software actually gets built.
Mostly about AI, agents, and coherence over velocity. I try to post every week.
The MVP made sense when code was expensive — we need a Minimum Idea State now
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Trajectory
Where I've built.
From backend systems and ML internships to co-founding a SaaS company and now building agentic infrastructure.
Work
Founding Engineer
Apr 2025 — Present
Co-Founder
May 2024 — Present
Viridium AI
Software Engineer Intern
May 2024 — Jul 2024
Smollan
ML Intern
Dec 2023 — Mar 2024
Constituents AI
Back End Developer
May 2023 — Mar 2024
Communities
MUJ IEEE CS
Technical Secretary
Apr 2024 — Present
HackX, Manipal University Jaipur
Student Convenor
Apr 2024 — Sep 2024
MUJ IEEE CS
Tech Head
Apr 2023 — Mar 2024
Open to conversations
Let's build something legendary.
Agents, systems, the creator economy, or the long run — if any of it resonates, my inbox is open.