CV

Tejas Parthasarathi Sudarshan

tejas@fandesk.ai · tejassuds.com · Chennai, India

Experience

Independent ML ResearcherMar 2026 - Present

Published "Neural DNA: A Compact Genome for Growing Network Architecture." A 258-parameter genome that learns to grow neural network topology across MLPs, CNNs, and Transformers. Beats random sparsity on every experiment. Transfers across tasks without retraining. Compression ratios up to 8,384:1. Paper on Zenodo, code on GitHub, genomes on Hugging Face.

Founder, FanDesk2026 - Present

One unified workspace replacing Slack, Notion, Linear, Gmail, and Calendar. All native, not integrations. Knowledge, chat, tasks, docs, email, calendar, and contacts live in one shared memory. 400+ MCP tools so you can run it from Claude Code or any AI app. The goal: AI employees that operate with full organizational context. Not chatbots. Employees that actually do work, because they can see everything.

Founder, Fanpit2025 - Present

Brand infrastructure platform. CRM, loyalty, stores, events, memberships. Worked with Sony Music India artists, Metal Chennai, The Chennai Scene, and communities across Chennai. Learned that the brands that grew had the strongest communities, not the best tools. Fanpit became a community management platform.

KPMG India, Financial Risk ManagementFeb 2023 - Sep 2024

Advised banks and NBFCs on enterprise risk frameworks. Promoted to Assistant Manager ahead of track. Led a risk transformation engagement as in-charge with one of the largest public sector insurance companies in India. Left after five total years across BSR and KPMG.

BSR & Co. LLP, Audit & AssuranceSep 2019 - Feb 2023

Three and a half years across audit and assurance. Automobile OEMs, ship management, tech companies. IPO audits, merger transactions, private equity takeovers. Staff Accountant to Senior Associate. Employee council member. BSR is where I learned how to think about problems.

Education

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)May 2022

Associate Chartered Accountant. CA Final cleared in first attempt.

Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary SchoolMar 2018

Grade: 94%. Represented India at World School International Forum 2016.

Side Projects

SkillGraph - Open-source agentic AI framework for LLM agents.
letsfindsanity - Anonymous journaling for founders.
MIDICode - MIDI keyboard as a macOS controller.
Kodart - Transforming code into visual art.

Newsletters

Wednesday Waffle - Building, music, and life.
The Future of Work - Where work is heading.

Skills

Python, PyTorch, Node.js, Next.js, Machine Learning, AI/LLM Systems, Product Management, Financial Modelling

Languages: English, Tamil (native); Hindi (fluent)