The engineers behind the writing

Shaun Kollannur

Senior AI Engineer, Unico Connect

Shaun Kollannur is a Senior AI Engineer at Unico Connect, where he takes AI systems from working prototype to production service. He builds retrieval augmented generation pipelines on LangChain, FAISS and PostgreSQL, and agentic workflows that run multi step reasoning and exception handling against real enterprise data. Before Unico Connect he worked as an AI and machine learning engineer in Chicago, shipping classification pipelines that cut manual email processing by more than 90 percent, architecting multi tenant single sign on with OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0, and putting MLOps practice around experiment tracking and model versioning with MLflow. His research background is applied computer vision and natural language processing, including a convolutional recurrent network for reading handwritten medical prescriptions that reached clinical pilots, and work on the FHIR based National Digital Health Mission framework. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago. He writes about evaluation, observability and the measurement that tells you whether an AI system is actually working.

Malay Parekh

CEO & Director, Unico Connect

Malay Parekh is the CEO and Director of Unico Connect, an AI-native software development company building intelligent digital products for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises worldwide. He leads the company as a global engineering partner with an engineering hub in Mumbai and a US presence. Malay works closely with founders and engineering leaders, combining deep product thinking with the latest in AI, no-code, and cloud-native development.

Vasim Gujrati

Solutions Architect, AI & Platforms, Unico Connect

Vasim Gujrati is a Solutions Architect for AI and platform engineering at Unico Connect, with 8+ years owning the full SDLC across backend, AI-native, no-code, and cloud systems. He builds production AI with LLMs, RAG, GraphRAG, embeddings, and multi-agent orchestration, and architects backend-heavy systems in Node.js, Python, and Go alongside no-code backends on Xano. He has delivered enterprise AI platforms across healthcare, telecom, and SaaS, running cloud-native delivery on Kubernetes with 20–40% cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He writes about agentic AI, RAG, and shipping AI products that survive real-world scale.

Saurav Jagdale

Technical Lead, Unico Connect

Saurav Jagdale is a Technical Lead at Unico Connect and a GCP Professional Cloud Architect. He built Unico's DevOps practice from the ground up — CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and the certifications behind the company's Google Cloud partnership — and now drives AI enablement across engineering through R&D and tooling. Before Unico he spent four years as Lead Backend Developer at Jio Tesseract, with earlier backend roles at Eros International and Gilbarco Veeder-Root. He writes about cloud architecture, deployment, and putting AI into engineering workflows.

Zubin Gala

Principal Mobile App Engineer, Unico Connect

Zubin Gala is Principal Mobile App Engineer at Unico Connect, with 11 years building and scaling mobile platforms. His foundation is iOS — Swift, SwiftUI, modular architecture — with hands-on Flutter and a clear view on cross-platform strategy (Flutter vs KMM vs React Native vs native). He has built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Fastlane, and Shorebird that cut release times by 40%, and sustained 99.8% crash-free sessions across production apps. He writes about mobile architecture, cross-platform decisions, and on-device AI.

Anurag Kurmi

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Unico Connect

Anurag Kurmi is a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Unico Connect and a frontend technical lead with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and Next.js. He has led high-traffic SaaS builds — including EcommPulse and Choice Digital — pairing performance work with data visualization and reusable component systems. He is certified in the Model Context Protocol and Vertex AI prompt design, and architects frontend deployments on AWS. He writes about frontend architecture, web performance, UI/UX, and bringing AI into the interface.