Founder & Builder

Founder of Nine Lab — an AI platform rethinking how India's engineering students get placed. Business Analyst. Published researcher. Builder of tools that replace hours of manual work with one click.

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42→85%
ATS improvement, validated
2
Live products shipped
IEEE
Best Paper 2026
Ritesh Shriram Raut
Founder · Nine Lab · Pune
What I'm Building
Two products.
Real problems. Live.

Not side projects. Not proof-of-concepts. Actual tools used by actual people.

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Nine Lab — AI Placement Platform
India's tier-2/3 engineering colleges have a broken placement system. Nine Lab fixes it — ATS resume builder, interview prep, company cheat sheets, and a multi-agent AI pipeline that gives students an unfair advantage.
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02
Resume Screener — AI HR Automation
HR teams spend hours manually screening resumes. Upload 50 resumes + a JD, get back a ranked shortlist with scores, flags, and contact details in under 5 minutes. ~70% reduction in screening time.
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Experience
Where I've
done real work.

Consulting, research, and building — all hands-on.

Jan 2026 — Apr 2026
Quantum Quest Insights
Business Analyst Intern
  • Conducted market research on DDoS mitigation — synthesized 20+ sources into structured opportunity briefs.
  • Built comparative vendor scorecards on pricing, capability, and risk.
  • Identified market opportunities through demand analysis and competitive benchmarking.
  • Prepared client-ready reports enabling data-driven recommendations to senior stakeholders.
2024 — Present
Nine Lab
Founder & Product Lead
  • Identified structural gap in India's placement ecosystem — built AI platform from zero to live.
  • Developed B2B GTM strategy targeting TPOs at tier-2/3 colleges.
  • Owned full product lifecycle: roadmap, stakeholder feedback, pricing, payment integration.
  • Validated AI resume framework — 42% to 85% ATS improvement. Published at IEEE.
About
Ritesh.
Builder by default.

Final-year MCA at G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Pune. I stopped thinking of myself as a student a while ago. I think of myself as a builder with a business brain.

I find problems worth solving — like the fact that 1.5 million engineering graduates come out of India every year, and most have no idea how to get placed. Nine Lab is my answer to that.

My IEEE paper on AI-driven resume optimization is the foundation of Nine Lab's core product. Also open to Business Analyst and Product roles in fintech, automation, or B2B SaaS.

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I find the problem firstEvery product started with talking to real users — not assumptions.
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I ship fast, then improveBoth products went live while I was still in college.
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I measure everything42% to 85% ATS improvement — tested on 20 real profiles, not projected.
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I talk to stakeholdersBuilt B2B pipeline by directly engaging TPOs and college leadership.
Recognition
The work
speaks for itself.

Published research, industry recognition, and measurable results.

2026 · IEEE
Best Research Paper Award
IEEE Kaveri ThinkFest 2026 — awarded for AI-driven resume framework that demonstrably improved candidate outcomes.
Best Paper
2026 · NLPC
National Level Presenter
Presented Nine Lab's AI methodology and product vision to academic and industry audience at NLPC 2026.
NLPC '26
Validated Research
ATS Score Improvement
15-step AI framework tested across 20 real engineering student profiles — measured, validated, and published.
42% → 85%
Contact
Let's build
something together.

Whether it's a role, a collaboration, or feedback on what I'm building — I'm always open.

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rautriteshshriram@gmail.com
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+91 84598 03734
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Pune, Maharashtra, India
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