Mihir Suvarna · Wise

Building software for the world's money.

Product-focused engineer blending regional research with pragmatic systems craft to keep global balances calm.

Collaborate Request CV
Fintech Java • K8s • Envoy AI/ML Distributed systems Autonomy & C++
Portrait of Mihir
MSCS '24 | BSCS '23 | UT 🤘 Austin, TX

10M+

devices touched

2

published papers

8

years shipping

Focus

Minimal surface. Sharp systems.

Wise Account 🏦

Building the future of Accounts at Wise – a calmer home for international money.

AI/ML background 🤖

Work on autonomous vehicles, human-in-the-loop robotics, and scaling ML tooling.

Notes & Ops ✍️

Documenting experiments in assets/data/blog.json, chasing delightful design details.

Story

Finance work rooted in autonomy research.

Robotics labs taught me to obsess over guardrails; Wise needs the same calm for people’s money.

Guide rails

Iterative Alignment

Inspired the observability + drift monitoring that now protects global balances.

Bias audits

Sensor-rich fairness

Those testing muscles now keep risk + compliance happy when shipping ML in fintech.

Education

CS at UT Austin 🎓

M.S. Computer Science

2022–2024 · GPA 3.84

Autonomy, perception, systems, and design ops.

B.S. Computer Science (AI/ML)

2020–2023 · GPA 3.76

Core systems, architecture, databases, and product engineering.

Experience

A tour.

Software Engineer · Wise

Aug 2024 – Present

Owning Wise Account balances, interest, and onboarding bank partners.

  • Onboarding new bank partners to broaden our Local Account Details product.
  • Shipped LLM's to production, tightened onboarding guardrails.

Machine Learning Engineer · Trustwise

Jun 2023 – Sep 2023

Fine-tuned 10B+ parameter LLMs and shipped embedding APIs for healthcare & finance.

  • Boosted model performance 23% by cleaning 200K+ files and tuning supervised pairs.
  • Deployed production LLM endpoints on AWS with 99.9% uptime while preventing hallucinations.

Software Engineer · Autonomic

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022

Architected monitoring for Total Mobility Cloud supporting 10M+ vehicles.

  • Streamlined Kafka + Kubernetes flows for near real-time telemetry.
  • Led an intern squad focused on reliability-first delivery.

AI Consultant · Responsible AI Institute

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022

Operationalized Microsoft/Google RAI playbooks for partner orgs.

  • Automated ethical AI reports used by 5+ partner teams.
  • Collaborated with Cambridge researchers on certification pathways.

Publications

Recent Papers 📂

arXiv · 2025

GigaAPI: Simplifying Multi-GPU Programming

Introduces a user-space API that abstracts low-level CUDA/C++ work, delivering modular building blocks for cross-GPU image processing and compute so researchers can prototype faster.

Selected Work

Projects & Prototypes 🛠️

Thoughtful experiments that mix systems, developer tools, and playful polish.

Graphics

Seam-Carving

Content-aware image resizing experiment using energy maps and live visualization.

Seam carving prototype

iOS

Parstagram

Privacy-forward social app exploring content creation flows — with in-memory cache & DB.

Parstagram mock

Playground

Twitter Clone

Swift client experimenting with feed architecture + micro-interactions, with multi-user support.

Twitter app mock

Writing

Recent articles.

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Contact

Let's build fast and design responsibly.

Austin coffee, remote collabs, critique swaps.

mihirsuvarna@utexas.edu (512) 710–8188 Austin, Texas