Rohan Balkondekar

Founder of Vibegrow · AI Lead at Xsolla

I build AI products and grow them in public.

About

I’m an AI engineer from Pune, now AI Lead at Xsolla between Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles. I’ve built with language models since GPT-2 in 2019 and shipped generative-AI systems end to end for the past three years: support automation covering 92,000+ monthly questions at 99.9% resolution, agent SDKs, fine-tuning pipelines, and a company-wide AI assistant.

I founded OutSight AI, an AI growth platform for small businesses; Xsolla acqui-hired the founding team in 2025, and I continue its product line as Vibegrow. I’ve worked with teams at Tesla, Microsoft, Tata Neu, Reliance, MIT, RWTH Aachen, UC San Diego, and YC-backed startups.

Vibegrow runs Instagram growth through an agent: audits, reels, outreach, and you approve what ships. I use it on my own accounts first: I grow this audience with the product I’m building.

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    AI Lead · Xsolla

    Leading AI strategy and productization across product, engineering, and enablement: a company-wide AI assistant, Shop Builder AI, Xsolla CLI, MCP strategy, and AI-SDLC systems from code review to sandboxed background agents.

    • LLM agents
    • MCP
    • Python
    • TypeScript
  • 2025 - Present

    Founder · OutSight AI / Vibegrow

    Founded OutSight AI, an AI growth platform for small businesses; Xsolla acqui-hired the founding team in 2025 and I continue the product line as Vibegrow. Shipped the platform, extension integrations, production auth and commerce flows, and the AI marketing workflows behind them.

    • AI agents
    • SaaS
    • Growth
  • 2024 - 2025

    Generative AI Lead · Air Arabia

    Led four generative-AI projects across customer support, development, internal operations, and engineering; built support automation covering 92K+ monthly interactions at 99.9% resolution (CSAT +20pp) and owned LLM delivery from prototype to production.

    • RAG
    • AI agents
    • Azure
    • Python
  • 2023 - 2024

    SDE-2, Generative AI · Lyzr AI

    Designed a conversational data-analytics agent SDK and a one-click fine-tuning pipeline covering 13 language and diffusion models.

    • SDK design
    • Fine-tuning
    • PyTorch
  • 2023 - 2024

    Expert AI Trainer · Scale AI

    Evaluated prompts, model outputs, reasoning traces, and code generation for ML workflows; advised startups, YC companies, and Fortune 500 teams on applied AI delivery.

    • Evals
    • AI consulting
  • 2023

    Software / ML Engineer · Iauro Systems

    Fine-tuned and deployed generative models for banking, fintech, and HR-tech clients, cutting delivery cost 80% and shipping 3.5× faster; built Python, Rust, and JavaScript systems for LLM products and production ML tooling.

    • PyTorch
    • Rust
    • MLOps
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Projects

  • 2025 - Present

    Vibegrow

    Instagram growth run by an agent: it drafts audits, reels, and outreach, and you approve what ships. I grow my own audience with it, starting with this site.

    • AI agents
    • Instagram
    • SaaS
  • 2025 - Present

    Instagrow, Creator Toolkit

    The Chrome-extension side of Vibegrow: creator workflow tools for Instagram drafts, downloads, DM exports, scheduling, and publishing.

    • Chrome extension
    • Instagram
  • 2026

    agent-loop-patterns

    A pattern catalog and reusable queue-loop template for coding agents.

    • AI agents
    • Patterns
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