Dushyant KashyapDushyant K..
Open to senior / principal roles·Vancouver, Canada·18+ yrs

Dushyant
Kashyap

Principal AI/ML Engineer— Agentic SystemsCreative Technical Director — Generative AI

Applied AI engineer with 18+ years building production software for real users, now focused on agentic systems, tool-using workflows and reliable applied AI. I turn brittle, high-pressure workflows into inspectable systems — typed contracts, eval harnesses, audit trails and human-in-the-loop review.

Creative Technical Director and principal engineer with 18+ years across VFX production technology, generative-AI pipelines and global studio workflows. I translate ambiguous creative briefs into production-ready technical plans — leading TDs and engineers, estimating feasibility, and shipping AI-enabled image, video and 3D systems.


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Selected work

Shipped → Building → Next
Ayudh.

My vehicle for building tech products — applied-AI product R&D, studio-grade systems, and pipeline consulting.

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ShippedIn production
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Coca-Cola Content Engine MVP · via Hogarth

FastAPI service mesh with SDXL Diffusers image generation on AWS A6000 GPU nodes and an NVIDIA Omniverse RTX web viewer, wired into production-facing review workflows. Owned architecture from prototype through production MVP — API design, GPU inference orchestration, asset storage and deployment.

FastAPISDXL · DiffusersGPU inferenceOmniverse RTXAWS
65% faster
review cycles
Building nowActive at Ayudh
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Wrap.Tech

Agent-assisted production-intelligence platform for VFX and animation studios. It reasons over bid, timesheet and production-tracking data to detect financial drift, explain operational risk, assemble change-order evidence, run scenario analysis and draft leadership-ready weekly reports — built around inspectable agent workflows with source-linked claims, human approval and an evaluation harness.

Multi-agentTool useEval harnessFastAPIPostgres
Agentic
analytics
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Aniso

India-hosted cloud render farm for VFX, animation and ArchViz studios — a FastAPI + PostgreSQL platform with a provider-agnostic Kubernetes / Argo Workflows render dispatcher, a prepaid credit ledger and a Next.js portal.

KubernetesArgo WorkflowsFastAPIPostgreSQLNext.js
Render
infrastructure
NextIn the pipeline
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Eikobo

Autonomous multi-agent media studio: a durable, model-agnostic orchestration platform where every consequential decision runs through agent committees (propose → critique → verify → adjudicate) under bounded autonomy — typed Pydantic contracts, a constitution-enforced governance layer with spend caps and a tamper-evident audit ledger, and a closed learning loop that promotes proven “plays” cycle over cycle.

Agent committeesPydanticSQLAlchemymypy --strictAudit ledger
Governed
autonomy
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Backlot

LLM-directed creative planning for production: typed planning, multi-agent orchestration, provider routing, image / video generation workflows, live logs and human-in-the-loop review.

LLM orchestrationProvider routingHITL review
Creative
planning
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Civic OS

A compliance-native election control-room operating system for political campaigns in the US, India and Canada — architected around a policy-engine kernel that enforces multi-jurisdictional election law (DPDPA · ECI · TCPA/FEC · BC PIPA · Quebec Law 25) at the data layer.

Policy engineMulti-jurisdictionCompliance-native
Govtech ·
compliance
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Praxis

Generative content engine that converts a text brief into an engine-ready 3D scene (Unity / glTF), orchestrating LLM + image + image-to-3D models behind typed pipeline contracts with full cost and generation lineage.

Text → 3DUnity · glTFTyped pipelinesCost lineage
Generative
3D

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Experience

2005 — Present
Jan 2024 — PresentVancouver, Canada
Principal AI/ML Engineer & Co-Founding Director
Ayudh Inc.
  • Architected Wrap.Tech, an agent-assisted production-intelligence platform that detects financial drift, retrieves evidence, runs scenarios and drafts leadership-ready reports with human review.
  • Designed Wrap around inspectable agent workflows — source-linked claims, human approval/rejection, a failure-mode taxonomy, deterministic fallback reporting and an evaluation harness.
  • Built adjacent agentic prototypes (Backlot and others) exploring typed planning, multi-agent orchestration, provider routing, live logs and fallback paths.
Jan 2024 — Mar 2025Vancouver, Canada
Principal Machine Learning Engineer (VFX)
Hogarth
  • Shipped the Coca-Cola Content Engine MVP: FastAPI service mesh, SDXL Diffusers on AWS A6000 nodes, an Omniverse RTX web viewer and production-facing review workflows.
  • Owned architecture from prototype through production MVP — API design, GPU inference orchestration, asset storage, review integration and reliability trade-offs.
  • Tiered 100 TB of footage to cold storage and authored a deployment playbook adopted across global brand work; mentored six TDs on MLOps, USD and AI-assisted workflows.
Nov 2022 — Dec 2023Vancouver, Canada
Sr. VFX Pipeline Supervisor
The Embassy VFX
  • Oversaw pipeline delivery for commercials and streaming episodic work; automated QC workflows that saved an estimated 180 artist-hours / week.
  • Built and improved internal tools for artists, supervisors and production teams, strengthening hand-offs, review consistency and delivery confidence.
Aug 2018 — Nov 2022Vancouver, Canada
Domain Lead, Pre-Production — Pipeline TD
Cinesite
  • Led a developer team maintaining the compositing domain across 6 shows; migrated legacy pipeline tools to Ftrack and improved production stability.
  • Built studio-wide Nuke QC and delivery tools adopted across production teams; engineered a Photoshop-to-Linux bridge and pipeline suite via a Flask micro-service.
Aug 2016 — Aug 2018Mumbai, India
R&D Programmer
DNEG
  • Integrated USD into the lighting flow and built a suite of reusable PySide tools, cutting shot turnaround by 25%.
  • Partnered with lighting, pipeline and show teams to standardize artist-facing tooling and reduce manual scene setup.
Sr. Pipeline TDPrime Focus · London & MumbaiJul 2010 — Jul 2016
Sr. CompositorReliance MediaWorks · Mumbai2010
Mentor — CG ArtistAnibrain · Mumbai / Pune2006 — 2009
Consultant — AnimationWhite Animations · Mumbai2006
IllustratormPower Information Systems · Mumbai2005 — 2006

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Capabilities

Engineering focusCreative-tech focus

LLM & Agents

Tool useEval harnessesTrace logsFeedback eventsSource-grounded outputsProvider routing

Backend & Infra

FastAPIREST / micro-servicesDockerKubernetesGKEPostgresRedisJenkins

Languages

PythonTypeScriptC++CUDABashSQL

AI / ML

LLM workflowsSDXL · DiffusersGPU inferencePrompt workflowsTensorFlowRay

Creative Tech

OmniverseUSDNukeMayaHoudiniUnreal EnginePySide · Qt

Production

ShotGridFtrackRender workflowsReview systemsArtist-facing toolsDelivery / QC

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Education & recognition

Education

  • Diploma, Film Animation
    NIIT, Mumbai · 2003–2005
  • XR Development with Unity
    University of British Columbia · 2022
  • Project Management Certificate
    Google / Coursera · 2023

Certifications

  • Machine Learning Specialization
    DeepLearning.AI / Stanford · 2025
  • Intro to Game Design
    Vancouver Film School · 2022
  • Video Game Writing Essentials
    UBC · 2022

Affiliations


Also writing

Words, when I'm not shipping systems.

A published collection and two manuscripts in progress — plus essays on where AI systems, creativity and engineering converge.

Binary Breath (published) · I Still Remember (WIP) · The Odd One Out (WIP)
Read the writing

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Let's build something
worth shipping. Say hello →

Open to senior and principal engineering roles in agentic systems and applied AI. Also available for select pipeline and AI-product consulting through Ayudh.