Sounak Mukherjee

Hi — I’m Sounak, a backend and infrastructure engineer based in Bangalore.

I work at the intersection of applied AI and backend systems — currently building infrastructure at Staple, where we extract structured data from invoices, contracts, and claims with cryptographic audit trails, so regulated teams can defend every figure to an auditor.

Before that, Pratilipi — a self-publishing platform for stories in Indian languages — where I worked on the data science side and built the recommender system.

AI gets interesting when it stops being a model and starts being a system — when a dozen small pieces have to agree on what just happened, what to do next, and how to remember it tomorrow. That’s the part I work on.

See /about for the longer story, /posts for writing, and /projects for things I’ve built.