About

Outside work, I'm always chasing something ambitious, like working up to 20,000 steps a day.

Experience

1. BuildOps

   2026–present·Founding Applied AI Engineer (Staff)

   I set a company-wide way to run AI agents, and a spec-first path into production.

2. UnitedHealth Group

   2022–2026·Principal Engineer, Data and AI

   I took generative AI workflows from discovery to production, and helped set the standards around them.

3. Publicis Sapient

   2022·Machine Learning Engineer

   I worked on the recommendation platform for Marcel.ai, and on a reference architecture other engineers could use.

   2021·Senior Data Engineer

   I designed the supply-chain move from Teradata onto Azure for Chevron.

4. Polaris Inc.

   2020–2021·Senior Data Engineer

   I automated how new data was onboarded into Snowflake.

5. Bosch Heating and Cooling, North America

   2020·Data Analyst

   I moved SAP reporting onto automated pipelines and built the sales KPI dashboards teams used for quoting.

6. PartRunner

   2019·Data Analyst

   I built the KPI dashboards and automated data extracts the operations team ran on.

Questions

Who is Rohan Kataria?

I'm a founding applied AI engineer at a field-services tech unicorn, based in Toronto.

What does Rohan Kataria do?

I build AI agents that do real work inside companies, and the pipelines that take them from prototype to production.

What is Rohan Kataria's background?

Data engineering, software development and machine learning, plus leading teams. I've worked in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, logistics and marketing.

Where is Rohan Kataria based?

Toronto. Before that, New York, Washington, DC, and Boston.

How can someone reach Rohan Kataria?

Email me at hello@rohankataria.com, or find me on LinkedIn and GitHub. My writing is at deploy.rohankataria.com.