Our Berlin engineering team is thrilled to welcome Ranjith as our new backend software engineer, starting January 16, 2026. Ranjith's expertise was forged by completing a PhD in Deep Learning and six years of hands-on machine learning project experience. His arrival is perfectly timed as our product prepares for a major milestone: going live with 100 business users at our first enterprise customer.
In his words: "I am honored to join explai at such an exciting stage of its growth. Over the years, I have built AI systems end-to-end—from research prototypes to production deployments—and this journey has reinforced a core belief: the true measure of AI lies not in what it can demonstrate but in how reliably and transparently it performs when it matters most.
What draws me to explai is its mission to make data analytics genuinely accessible through intelligent agents. My experience spans real-time fire prediction systems and multi-agent orchestration for portfolio management, as well as designing systems that gracefully handle the inherent non-determinism of AI. This aligns closely with ensuring explai's agents operate faithfully, observably, and reliably for enterprise customers.
I've spent years working on the hard problems that make AI production-ready: CI/CD pipelines, observability, guardrails, and testing non-deterministic behavior. I find this challenge deeply meaningful—building AI systems that are not only powerful, but also trustworthy, grounded in real business context, and resilient at scale. At explai, I look forward to bringing this experience to ensure our agents don't just provide answers—they provide insights that enterprise customers can truly depend on. I am excited to contribute to a team that values technical excellence, responsibility, and a strong commitment to reliability, while continuing to push the boundaries of what dependable AI can achieve."
Welcome, Ranjith!