2x Founder • Technologist • Author

Soum Paul builds AI-native cloud products that scale from zero to global impact.

High-velocity, product-driven leader with 18+ years across London, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune. Delivered launches in Cloud Telephony, ESG reporting, FinTech, EdTech, and agentic AI systems while leading engineering, product, and growth teams end-to-end.

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Agentic AI & LLM workflows Cloud & SaaS platform architecture Search, NLP, vision & audio AI Product strategy & growth marketing

Current Focus

Co-Founder & CTO at Superteams.ai, leading sovereign AI agents, vector search systems, and knowledge graph-driven workflows for enterprise-grade applications.

18+

Years in Cloud & AI

12+

Products Launched

10+

Teams Built

Countries Worked In

“Building resilient AI-native platforms that create measurable business outcomes.”

About

Soum Paul — Founder, Technologist & Author

I’m a high-velocity, product-driven technologist and 2x founder with 18+ years of experience building AI-native cloud platforms and venture-scale products. I’ve led engineering, product, AI, and growth teams to launch platforms in Cloud Telephony, AI-powered ESG/GHG reporting, FinTech, EdTech, and Agentic AI.

My work spans search technologies, LLM-powered workflows, audio and vision AI, and multimodal systems — with a strong focus on reliability, scale, and measurable business impact.

2x Founder & Product Technologist

Built and scaled AI-native cloud platforms across Cloud Telephony, ESG/GHG reporting, FinTech, EdTech, and Agentic AI.

18+ Years in AI, Cloud & SaaS

Deep expertise in search technologies, LLM workflows, multimodal AI, and high-scale cloud architectures.

Global Leadership

Led engineering and product teams across London, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, and San Francisco.

Key Metrics

18+

Years Experience

100+

Teams Built

$1M+

ARR Achieved

$2.2M

Fundraising

Focus Areas

Agentic AI systems & sovereign AI stacks
AI search, vector retrieval & knowledge graphs
Cloud telephony at 99.99% uptime
LLM-powered growth & product launches
AI-powered ESG/GHG reporting automation
Platform architecture & team scaling

Currently leading Superteams.ai, building sovereign AI agents and AI infrastructure for enterprise-grade deployment.

Experience

Leadership across AI, Cloud, and Product Innovation

A 20+ year journey building AI-native platforms, scaling global teams, and delivering enterprise-grade products across fintech, cloud telephony, edtech, and agentic AI.

Co-Founder & CTO

Superteams.ai · Delaware, US & Delhi, India

Apr 2022 – Present

Built TryThat.ai, a sovereign agentic AI system for real estate using open-source LLMs, vector search, and SQL across 100M+ transaction rows.
Architected Bevolve.ai’s AI stack for OCR invoice parsing, Scope 1–3 categorization, and ESG report generation.
Launched NextNeural for enterprise sovereign AI agents with reasoning models, vector search, SQL, and knowledge graphs.
Created NeuraSearch, a Rust-based open source AI search engine using TF-IDF and GraphBLAS for fast in-memory retrieval.

Founder & CEO

Spark.Live / Home Screen Network · Bengaluru, India

Aug 2017 – Jan 2022

Built India’s first vernacular live video & edtech platform, reaching $1M+ ARR and 1.5M+ downloads.
Raised $2.2M from Saama Capital and scaled a 50+ member multi-city team.
Formed partnerships with SonyLIV, JioTV, Sharechat, and Dailyhunt; generated 70M+ monthly views.
Designed video recommendation systems and scaled to 10K+ concurrent streaming sessions.

Technology & Product Consultant

Swadhaar FinAccess, MFIN India, Welthungerhilfe · Mumbai, India

Feb 2016 – Aug 2017

Led Swadhaar Saathi app development (MetLife Inclusion Award).
Built Swadhaar Dost for MFI field operations across 5000+ pincodes.
Launched MFIN Financial Literacy app with 15+ animated videos in 5+ languages.

Head of Special Projects & Acting CTO

Knowlarity Communications (acquired by Gupshup) · Bengaluru, India

Oct 2013 – Mar 2016

Co-led high-availability cloud telephony backend with Asterisk and WebRTC for 99.99% uptime.
Drove zero-downtime CI/CD and agile processes using Docker and Ansible.
Helped scale engineering to 100+ hires post Series A & B.

Head of Technology & Founding Engineer

State.com · London, UK

Oct 2008 – Jun 2012

Architected an AI-powered opinion analysis platform using NLP, semantic web, and graph data.
Co-led patent filing for interactive opinion networks (EP2745210A1).
Led engineering growth from 1 to 35 and supported a $14M fundraising effort.

Senior Architect & Founding Member

Mixercast Inc. (acquired) · San Francisco, USA & Pune, India

2006 – 2008

Built one of the first UGC video platforms for major media clients.
Formed a 16-person engineering team via acquihire and delivered platform in 6 months.
Managed migrations for 5M+ users and content from a competitor acquisition.

Software Engineer

Electronics for Imaging (EFI) · Foster City, CA, USA

Aug 2000 – Jun 2003

Designed memory management modules for embedded Linux and VxWorks.
Optimized EFI kernel modules for high-performance printer servers.
Delivered core systems for 4000 ppm high-speed color printers.

Expertise

Core highlights across AI, cloud, and product execution

A snapshot of focus areas built over 18+ years of leading engineering, AI, and growth teams across global markets.

Cloud • AI • SaaS

AI-Native Platforms & Agentic Systems

Designed and shipped sovereign AI agents and LLM-powered workflows across real estate, ESG reporting, and enterprise knowledge automation.

TryThat.ai
NextNeural
Bevolve.ai AI stack

Search, Retrieval & Knowledge Graphs

Deep expertise in modern search architectures, vector retrieval, and graph-powered ranking for fast, explainable AI search.

NeuraSearch (Rust)
GraphBLAS ranking
TF‑IDF + vector search

Cloud & SaaS Architecture

Built scalable cloud platforms with high availability, multi-tenant SaaS design, and automated deployment pipelines.

99.99% telephony backend
Sovereign cloud IaaS/DBaaS
CI/CD & DevOps

Founding & Product Leadership

2x founder with experience taking products from 0→1 and 1→scale, leading cross-functional teams and fundraising.

$2.2M raised
1M+ ARR
1.5M+ downloads

Publications & IP

A selection of books, patents, and research outputs focused on AI, media, and technology-led change.

Author • Inventor • Researcher

Books

Forthcoming 2026

Surviving the AI Future: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Intelligent Machines

Expected Publication

Published 2017

Flight Of The Unicorns: Lessons From India's Startup Bubble

HarperCollins India (Harper Business)

Published 2015

The Topper Prepares: True Stories of Those Who Cracked the JEE

HarperCollins India

Published 2011

Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change

Routledge India

Patents

Patent

System and Method for Managing Opinion Networks with Interactive Opinion Flows

EP2745210A1

2014

Research

Conference Paper

Virtual Kathakali: Gesture Driven Metamorphosis

Soumyadeep Paul, Sudipta N. Sinha, Amitabha Mukerjee

International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India

2003

Impact Documentaries

Storytelling projects created for social impact and brand advocacy.

Media & Storytelling

Including the Excluded

Documentary on microfinance and financial inclusion in India, sponsored by MFIN.

Grassroots Micro-Entrepreneurship

Produced in partnership with Welthungerhilfe and 5 NGOs to highlight rural enterprise.

Impact Films for Nonprofits and Brands

Produced and directed films for PETA India, Current.tv, IBM, WIPRO, and Ogilvy PR.

Contact

Work with Soum Paul

2x Founder, Technologist & Author • London • Delhi • Bangalore • Pune

Let’s collaborate on AI-native cloud platforms, agentic AI, and product growth.

Email Soum Paul Call +91-9769233295

AI-native product strategy

LLM-powered workflows & search

Cloud architecture & scale

Go-to-market & growth engineering

Email Phone +91-9769233295