Indrajeet Patil

I build software for work, and read, write, and watch fiction to keep the rest of my attention honest.

At Carl Zeiss AG, I own the GenAI-based application layer of the company's AI platform — the architecture, security model, and guardrails that every business unit builds on when shipping LLM applications. I also drive the organisation's adoption of agentic engineering best practices, helping teams work productively with AI coding agents while staying within compliance and cost constraints. Earlier, I studied moral decision-making at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute, after a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste.

That path has left me with two recurring interests: how people decide what matters, and how to build tools that survive contact with real work. I have authored open-source libraries for data analysis and code quality, published peer-reviewed research in neuroscience and psychology, written a screenplay adapted from Marathi literature, and am finishing a collection of speculative fiction about technology's quiet costs.