Engineering
Eighteen years at Google — from the Translator Toolkit and Scribe, through Docs and Google Research, to owning Cloud Search and then leading Search quality for India. Most recently, launching AI Overviews in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi, and building the evaluations that tell you whether an answer is any good. Now consulting on AI trust and safety.
The full recordPublic policy
A postgraduate programme in public policy at Takshashila, completed with distinction in 2026. The writing since has gone wherever the questions led — money and elections, caste, the right to protest, domestic work and labour law, and yes, how the state handles technology. The through-line is not a subject but a suspicion: of rules that sound protective and land as barriers.
The writingCo-host
A podcast about AI in and from India — what is being built here, what it changes, and what it asks of the people living with the results. Recent episodes run as a series on education and AI, with teachers, researchers and economists.
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Building now
Less admin. More mission.
Field staff send updates over WhatsApp — photo, voice or text, in whatever language they speak. MangoStack structures every update, tracks it against the project plan, and drafts donor-ready reports backed by the evidence behind them.
Long videos. Epic moments. Perfect reels.
Put a phone at the end of the court and let it run. Khel Vision finds every rally worth watching, hands you the shortlist, and cuts the reel on the phone itself — ready to save, share or post.
Also Gully Cricket Scorer and Sansad Search — see all projects.
Selected
A proposal to modernise how First Information Reports are registered in India — AI assistance paired with human police oversight, delivered through a public-private partnership and piloted across one urban and one rural district in Karnataka before any wider rollout.
An argument that a bill written to protect domestic workers would, in practice, price many of them out of the work it means to secure.
Election spending in India rose from ₹30,000 crore in 2014 to ₹1.35 lakh crore in 2024. E-TRAC is a system of monitored candidate accounts, transparent electoral bonds and state-matched small donations designed to lower the cost of standing for office.
I take on consulting work in search quality, AI evaluation, and trust and safety — and I am always glad to talk about public policy in India. The fastest way to reach me is email.
kartik.singh@gmail.com
