Tharun Poobalan.

I've built and shipped Robotics and AI products for 3 years.

At World Bank Group, I was early engineer and helped build their agentic AI conversational platform to assist internal teams in navigating complex financial and development for better decision making system.

Earlier at ASU EPICS, I trained and deployed AI models that helped educational institutions automate daycare operations and handle routine parent inquiries.

For the past few months I've been going deep on post-training and contributing to open source and writing up what works and what breaks.

I believe agents will become more specialized, learn continuously from their environments and work together to solve much harder problems. There's still a lot to figure out around how we make these systems reliable, adaptive and useful in the real world and that's the part I find most exciting.