Making things happen
I enjoy pursuing underlying truths in systems. Math and meditation being the tools of choice!
About Me
Bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical business solutions.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 6 years of experience delivering measurable business impact through AI innovation. I specialize in deep learning for computer vision & NLP, agentic RAG systems, RLHF, vector database pipelines, and scalable MLOps. My proven track record includes delivering revenue & profit lift while leading cross-functional teams and managing complete ML/AI pipelines from ideation to production.
I have architected enterprise-grade AI solutions that transform how businesses operate. My expertise spans the full spectrum of modern AI technologies—from traditional machine learning to cutting-edge large language models—with a focus on product-driven research that drives real business outcomes. I have maintained ISO 42001, ISO 27001 & SOC2 compliant ML lifecycles, ensuring both innovation and regulatory excellence.
My recent work centers on next-generation AI applications: agentic RAG pipelines, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and vector database optimization for personalized experiences. I'm passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and practical business solutions, leading AI initiatives that not only push technological boundaries but deliver tangible value to stakeholders and end users.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2018 - May 2019
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics
Aug 2013 - May 2017
Key Expertise
Systems Thinking & Requirements Engineering
Breaking complex business challenges into actionable ML solutions, translating ambiguous business needs into precise technical specifications and success metrics while identifying root causes vs. symptoms
Rapid Prototyping & Experimental Validation
Quick proof-of-concept development with iterative improvement cycles, A/B testing frameworks, statistical significance testing, and bias detection for fail-fast experimentation
Research Translation & Model Optimization
Evaluating and adapting cutting-edge research into production systems, selecting optimal model families and architectures, implementing fine-tuning strategies (RLHF, LoRA, QLoRA) to achieve specific business objectives
Data Strategy & Governance
Building data pipelines from scratch, ensuring data quality and lineage, privacy-preserving techniques
Communication & Organizational Impact
Upskilling teams through mentorship and documentation standards, creating reusable frameworks and best practices while translating technical complexity into business value propositions to secure executive support
Experience
My professional journey in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer science.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Automated core business workflows with agentic RAG pipelines, reducing manual processing time by 15%.
Architected client-specific vector-database stacks that powered real-time personalization across products, boosting CTR by 10%.
Engineered a deep-clustering segmentation model that improved audience-profiling relevance.
Built a next-best-action recommender (reinforcement-guided) that raised credit-line utilization by 7% in early-access.
Designed an automated evaluation pipeline (LangSmith, Weights & Biases) that cut model-benchmark cycle time by 40%.
Prototyped generative-AI use cases and briefed the C-suite, authored a company-wide AI roadmap.
Maintained ISO-42001-aligned ML-lifecycle documentation, resulting in zero audit findings.
Facilitated cross-functional alignment—frontend, backend, product, and domain SMEs—securing consensus on AI feature scope and acceptance criteria, which cut scope churn and kept key releases on schedule.
Software Engineer – Machine Learning II
Spearheaded AI/ML use-case discovery and kicked off a data-infrastructure overhaul (AWS Glue, Delta Lake, Airflow)
Built an automated vendor-selection recommender that trimmed 10 min / relocation and saved ~$500 K per year.
Engineered a forecasting model that raised business-projection accuracy by 8 % driving downstream gains in staffing efficiency and customer satisfaction score.
Directed development of a client-expense prediction model, beating the legacy baseline by 14 %.
Launched a client-facing Gen-AI chatbot. Also, an internal HR and RFP assistant reducing processing time by 20%.
Led all AI initiatives, coordinating a six-person team (2 DS, 2 DE, 1 UI dev, 1 scrum master).
Research Associate II
Improved fine grain classification accuracy across 13k SKUs from 76% to 90.5%
Revamped data augmentation & annotation of bot captured images
Led a team to develop fixed camera system as an alternative to robot mounted cameras
Pruned facial landmarking models for embedded applications
Skills
Comprehensive overview of my skills across modern AI, machine learning, and software development.
Programming
Data & Big Data
Deep Learning Frameworks
Generative AI & LLM Ops
MLOps / DevOps
NLP & CV
AI/ML Techniques
Electronics Engineering
Soft Skills
Projects
A showcase of my work in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
End-to-End Differentiable Co-reference Resolution System
A neural co-reference resolution system integrated into conversational agents to improve dialogue understanding and context tracking.
GAN-Based Translation Between Medical Image Modalities
Advanced GAN architecture for translating T1-weighted MRI to T2-weighted MRI using Self-Attention GAN and Spectral Normalization.
Cooperative Visual Dialog with Reinforcement Learning
Multi-agent system with Q-bot and A-bot cooperatively learning to play an image guessing game using REINFORCE algorithm.
Navigate, Fetch and Find: 2D Environment Navigation with Double Q-Learning
Autonomous navigation agent using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-Learning, heuristics, and reward shaping.
Explore more of my research and development work on GitHub.
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Thoughts and insights on machine learning, AI, and abstract topics.

All Zeros are Not the Same
Mathematical silence surrounding zero poses a fascinating contrast: while infinities vary, mathematics insists zeros do not.
Explore more articles and insights on my Medium profile.
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