2026 →
Founder — Domogo AI
Bengaluru
Agent-to-agent commerce for service businesses. It starts with an AI voice agent that handles restaurant reservations and remembers regulars, and grows from there.
hello, I'm —
Assain Jaleel.
Engineer. Builder. Occasionally carries boxes up stairs.
I don't have a tidy story. I've stocked retail shelves, patched cryptography inside a framework that runs a good slice of the internet, scaled an F&B brand into a chain of around seventy-five outlets, and spent six years quietly holding together banking systems for a German fintech. The thread isn't a job title — it's that I'll figure out whatever the thing in front of me needs, and then do it properly.
These days the thing in front of me is agentic AI. Not the demo kind that lives in a notebook and dies on stage — the kind that answers a real phone call, books a real table, and remembers you next time. I'm building Domogo AI toward that, and helping a few people set up practical AI around their actual work along the way.
the long way here
What I've actually done
2020 – 26
Software Engineer — United Signals
Frankfurt · six years
Owned banking integration work across Rails, VBANK, Flowniq and Expersoft — drove the projects given to me without needing to be told how. Built the architecture end to end, mentored people on it, and designed an AI-assisted way to generate the trickiest mappings.
2018 – 21
Co-Founder — Foodwise Hospitality
Lassi Magic · Brew Cafe · Magic Wok · Smack Shack
Helped scale the Foodwise brands — Lassi Magic, Brew Cafe, Magic Wok and Smack Shack — to around seventy-five outlets across India, with Lassi Magic the largest. Built a distribution center and kept it profitable, launched a B2B line off the same infrastructure, hired and looked after the people running it.
2017 · 18
Google Summer of Code — Rails Core (twice)
Ruby on Rails
Rebuilt how Rails secures cookies: expiry and purpose baked into signed and encrypted messages, the cipher moved to AES-256-GCM, SignedGlobalID ported across. It runs in millions of applications now, including ones you used today.
2017
Eklavya Internship — IIT Bombay
Prof. D. B. Phatak (Padma Shri) & team
Selected for the Eklavya program under Prof. D. B. Phatak at IIT Bombay. I started, then made the call to leave and follow a different path. Not every prestigious door is the right room — knowing when to walk out of one matters as much as getting in.
2018
Software Engineer — Digital Product School
TU Munich · with Facebook & Daimler
An interdisciplinary team prototyping better support for people right after an accident or incident.
2012 – 15
Where it started — M.K. Retail
Bengaluru · during my undergrad
Asst. store manager and merchandiser. Jumped onto the floor during rush, watched competitors, learned that systems are just people and shelves until you make them work.
"Life's full of uncertainty, so I rolled up my sleeves. Once I carried a truckload of heavy boxes up to the first floor alone, fasting, just before dusk in Ramadan — the driver was a heart patient and my team was already deployed elsewhere. The work needed doing, so I did it."
where I trained
Education
2018
Technical University of Munich
Digital Product School · Computer Software Engineering
2015 – 18
NIT Bhopal
National Institute of Technology (MANIT) · Computer Science
2012 – 15
Bangalore University
Computer Science
2010
Cathedral High School, Bangalore
ICSE
a few nice things along the way
Recognition
Google India Challenge ScholarshipGoogle
Best Outgoing Student2014 – 15
Best Student Award2014
always learning, from the source
Certifications
I learn from the people who built these fields — Berkeley with Patterson & Fox, Stanford with Roughgarden, MIT with Tsitsiklis, Andrew Ng back in 2020. Not a recent convert to any of this; a decade of going to the source. Still going — right now, Stanford's frontier-systems work and Berkeley's agentic-AI courses, alongside whatever the next problem demands. The list below is a snapshot, not a finish line.
Agentic AI & LLMs
Agentic AI the frontierDeepLearning.AI
DeepLearning.AI
Multi-Agent SystemsCrewAI · DeepLearning.AI
CrewAI · DeepLearning.AI
MCP — Model Context Protocol agents, given toolsAnthropic
Anthropic
A2A — Agent2Agent Protocol agents talking to agentsGoogle Cloud · IBM Research
Claude CodeAnthropic
Anthropic
Building toward Computer UseAnthropic
Agent Skills with AnthropicAnthropic
Build Interactive Agents with Generative UICopilotKit
AI Agents for Image and Video GenerationGoogle
Spec-Driven DevelopmentJetBrains
JetBrains
RAG — Retrieval Augmented GenerationDeepLearning.AI · Zain Hasan
Agent Memory so it remembers youOracle
Oracle
Semantic CachingRedis
Redis
Voice Agents — ADKGoogle
Google
Document AILandingAI
LandingAI
SGLang Inference making it fastLMSys · RadixArk
LMSys · RadixArk
Fast & Efficient LLM Inference with vLLMRed Hat
Evaluating AI Agents making it reliableArize AI · DeepLearning.AI
AI / ML LabsAWS
AWS
Vector SearchWeaviate
Weaviate
AI For Everyone where it began, 2020DeepLearning.AI · Andrew Ng
DeepLearning.AI · Andrew Ng
Computer Science Foundations
Graph Search, Shortest Paths & Data StructuresStanford · Tim Roughgarden
Stanford · Tim Roughgarden
Algorithmic ToolboxUC San Diego
UC San Diego
Introduction to ProbabilityMITx · John Tsitsiklis
MITx · John Tsitsiklis
The Computing Technology Inside Your SmartphoneCornellX
CornellX
Programming Languages, Part AUniv. of Washington · Dan Grossman
Univ. of Washington · Dan Grossman
Software Engineering & Rails
Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails — BasicsBerkeleyX · Patterson & Fox
BerkeleyX · Patterson & Fox
Agile Development Using Ruby on Rails — AdvancedBerkeleyX
BerkeleyX
Rails with Active Record & Action PackJohns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins
Security
Unlocking Information Security I — Cryptography to Buffer OverflowsIsraelX · Tel Aviv University
IsraelX · Tel Aviv University
Unlocking Information Security II — An Internet PerspectiveIsraelX · Tel Aviv University
IsraelX · Tel Aviv University
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when I'm not at a screen
The rest of me
When I travel, I don't tour — I live there. A month in one place, the way a local actually lives it: the food, the culture, the rhythm of an ordinary day, fully immersed rather than passing through. It's the same instinct I bring to everything: all the way in, not wide.
🥊 Boxing
🏋️ Strength & conditioning
🧘 Meditation
🌅 Sunrises
📖 Business strategy, read like novels
I care about being a decent human with real values, and about doing honest work regardless of who's watching.
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