Aman Mundra (Amandeep Singh)
· Founder & CEO, Welzin
· Co-founder & CEO, CogNerd
Aman Mundra (Amandeep Singh) is the Founder & CEO of Welzin, a full-stack AI and data firm, and Co-founder & CEO of CogNerd, an AEO/GEO brand-intelligence platform that tracks how AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity describe brands. A machine learning engineer for 12+ years at PayPal, Koch Industries, TransUnion, HPE and HealthifyMe, he works on making brands visible to AI search, and is based in Chandigarh, India.
Now
Welzin is a full-stack AI and data firm — strategy, data engineering, and production ML/GenAI systems for companies that want AI shipped, not slide-ware. Think AI, Think Big.
CogNerd tracks how AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity see brands — answer-engine and generative-engine optimization (AEO/GEO) intelligence, measured as a GEO Score.
Writing
I write about AI engineering, the cloud-native AI stack, and how AI answer engines read the web — mostly on the Welzin blog. Longer-running personal writing lives at Life is a File, a decade of notes on data engineering, Spark and the markets.
- agentgateway: The Data Plane for Agentic Traffic
- How to Contribute to AAIF: The Real On-Ramp to MCP, goose, AGENTS.md and agentgateway
- Build a Karpathy-style LLM wiki in Obsidian: an advanced guide
- Cloud Native AI, Explained: When Kubernetes Met Machine Learning
- Claude Fable 5: what it is, how good it is, and when to use it
More at welzin.ai/author/aman-mundra · lifeisafile.com
History
- 2026 —CogNerd · Co-founder & CEO — AEO/GEO brand intelligence: how AI answer engines represent brands.
- 2025 —Welzin · Founder & CEO — full-stack AI & data firm.
- 2021–25PayPal · Machine Learning Engineer 3 — authorization-rate, retry and routing models (~$5M/yr added to auth rates), GenAI/RAG systems.
- 2014–21Koch Industries · TransUnion · HPE · HealthifyMe — ML and large-scale data engineering (Apache Spark), MLOps.
- 2010–14B.Tech, Computer Science
Talks
Children's Guide To LLMs on Kubernetes
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 · Hyderabad · with Saloni Narang (Kubesimplify)
TinyML at the Edge: Deploying and Optimizing AI Workloads on Zephyr RTOS
AI_dev + Open Source Summit Japan 2025 · Tokyo · Linux Foundation
GPU-Accelerated Workloads on KubeVirt: Scaling ML/AI in Kubernetes
KubeVirt Summit 2025 · virtual lightning talk · with Shivani Tiwari
Also spoken at
| Event | Talk | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ||
| KCD Delhi | KMCP and the Future of Agent-Native Kubernetes Control Planes | Abstract |
| CNCF Chandigarh | AAIF in Action: Live Demo of MCP, AGENTS.md and Goose for Cloud-Native Agent Platforms | — |
| 2025 | ||
| KCD Sri Lanka Colombo | Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence: Building Self-Healing Cloud Native Infrastructure with AI | Event |
| CNCF Chandigarh GenAI Meetup Infosys | Scaling LLM Inference with Kubernetes & vLLM | Glimpse |
| AI Hubs Meetup Chandigarh | LLM Beginner Workshop | Event |
| PHD Chamber IT Conclave Chandigarh | Insights that inspire businesses and professionals to embrace the future of AI and beyond | Glimpse |
| ASSOCHAM Punjab Chandigarh | Conclave on Skill Development for MSME Sectors | Glimpse |
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FAQ
Who is Aman Mundra?
Aman Mundra is the Founder & CEO of Welzin and Co-founder & CEO of CogNerd, an ex-PayPal machine learning engineer with 12+ years in ML who makes brands visible to AI engines, based in Chandigarh, India. He is legally Amandeep Singh; goes by Aman; publishes as Aman Mundra.
What is Welzin?
Welzin is a full-stack AI and data firm founded by Aman Mundra — data engineering, machine learning, and GenAI systems delivered end to end. Its products include Startin (a founder roadmap for Indian startups) and an AI/data bootcamp.
What is CogNerd?
CogNerd is an AEO/GEO brand-intelligence platform co-founded by Aman Mundra and Sakshi Dhawan. It tracks how AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite and describe brands, and scores that visibility as a GEO Score.