// NAVIGATE
// FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER @ C3.AI
TIRTH
SHROFF_
$ I build
4yrs
AT C3.AI
2B
SENSOR READINGS INGESTED
$165M
SAVINGS SURFACED
13
ENGINEERS LED
// ABOUT.EXE
Field engineer.
Full-stack builder.
I'm a Forward Deployed Engineer at C3.ai in Chicago, where I build data ingestion pipelines, full-stack applications, and GenAI-powered solutions for Fortune 500 industrial and energy customers.
Over the past four years I've led customer engagements end-to-end, built reusable integration patterns adopted company-wide, and mentored engineers at every level. I care about turning one-off delivery work into lasting, reusable infrastructure, and shipping things that actually get used.
// SKILLS.SYS
Loadout
[01] FRONTEND
[02] BACKEND & DATA
[03] LEADERSHIP & DELIVERY
// PROJECTS.DIR
Selected builds
+ To-Do List Application, Tindog, Dice Roll, Personal Finance Ledger & Analytics Platform → full archive on GitHub ↗
// WORK.LOG
Experience
C3.ai, Inc. · Forward Deployed Engineer
JUL'22 - PRESENT · CHICAGO
- Delivered a custom GenAI application end-to-end as the sole embedded engineer against an original two-person staffing estimate: backend integration, a fully custom React UI, and the company’s first 3D spatial visualization capability for physical assets.
- Designed and shipped an internal skills-tracking tool now used by 150-200 engineers and architects company-wide, built with AI-assisted development in parallel with an active customer engagement.
- Led two industrial IoT reliability engagements in parallel at roughly half the typical staffing: 6 facility deployments brought online, ~2 billion sensor readings ingested across 800 sensors.
- Designed and released reusable data-integration pipelines (industrial historian, Microsoft Fabric/Kusto, IBM Maximo) now adopted company-wide; one cut a partner customer’s live-data-ingestion timeline from months to about 2 weeks.
- Led a cross-functional team of 13 engineers and contractors through a system migration for a Fortune 500 customer in under 6 months. The delivered application now analyzes $4.5B in spend and has surfaced $165M in savings opportunities.
- Mentored 5+ engineers per cycle across four consecutive years and hosted weekly company-wide office hours.
Virginia Tech ARC Lab · Software Engineering Intern
MAY'21 - AUG'21
Mathematics Department, Virginia Tech · Grader
SEPT'19 - MAY'22
Engineering Department, Virginia Tech · Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
AUG'19 - DEC'19
Allied Digital Services Limited, India · IoT Intern
JUN'19 - AUG'19
// SCHOOL.SYS
More than a CS degree.
FALL 2018
// Started in General Engineering
SPRING 2019
FALL 2019
// Declared Computer Science
SPRING 2020
FALL 2020
SPRING 2021
FALL 2021
SPRING 2022
// Graduated
// UPLINK.OPEN
Let's connect.
Open to interesting problems, collaborations, and good conversations about building things that ship.
Hey, I'm Tirth's avatar 👋 Poke around — I'll tag along. (Psst: try the Konami code.)