Varun Saagar

AI Researcher

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India7 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in developing and deploying AI models.
Published author of two research papers.
Strong background in MLOps and data engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI specialist with a focus on MLOps and performance marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical WritingLlmopsGenerative AiMlopsPerformance MarketingMachine LearningComputer Vision

Other Skills

AirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkBedrockCausal InferenceData AnalyticsData EngineeringData ScrapingDeep Reinforcement LearningDjangoDockerFastAPIGPT-4GeminiGenerative AI Studio

About

As Artificial intelligence, LLM ,Machine Learning professional with expertise in ETL, DAG Airflow, CI/CD pipeline, and MLOPS, I excel in developing and deploying top-notch models using Docker, Kubeflow, and more. With backend API integrity development exposure, I ensure seamless integration and reliable performance for all my models also As a published author of two research papers, I thrive on innovation and stay at the forefront of emerging trends in the industry.

Experience

Verizon

Senior Engineer - AI /ML Engineering

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

Springer nature

Co Author - LLM IN PRODUCTION

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

Technical Writing

Asianet news media and entertainment pvt ltd

Lead Artificial intelligence

Jul 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading and Building a AI Capabilities for business . Closely working on LLM & Stable diffusion models at the moment.
Creating a Multilingual AI features across the verticals.
Implementation of Foundation Multimodel for Vernacular platform.
Fine-tuning/training Models( by following LoRa, QLora , PEFT, DPO, NEFTune techniques) for custom data. Controlling the Hallucinations and Improving the Reasoning /Knowledge of Data & Models via RAG + Langsmith Piplines.
#Langchain #Autogpt #Genai #Multimodel #RAG

LLMopsCausal InferenceBedrockStable DiffusionMicrosoft Azure Machine LearningGemini+7

Zee - technology & innovation

AI ML Research Engineer

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hybrid

Applied Machine Learning and Data Science for Performance Marketing, Consumer and Content Intelligence at ZEE5. Analyzed clickstream data with Mixpanel, Conviva, and build personalized video thumbnail model for Zee Entertainment OTT .
Implemented Personalized Ranking, Churn modeling for ZEE5 OTT app's AVOD & SVOD using GCP, bigquery, vertex AI, databricks, and AWS S3. Crafted personalized retention strategies through notifications and recommendation engines
Established MLOps and Data Engineering pipelines (Airflow, Kubeflow), managed Model Versioning, conducted thorough model evaluation, including cross-validation and data drift monitoring. Fine-tuned hyperparameters for over 10 models.
Conducted A/B testing, created metrics dashboards, and tracked experiments. Segmented user preferences based on engagement metrics to enhance business insights.
#RecommendationSystems #DeepLearning #AI #ML #ZEE5

Apache SparkTensorFlowAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesPerformance MarketingGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+11

Universiti brunei darussalam

Research Assistant

Dec 2020 – Feb 2021 · 2 mos

Tamil nadu e-governance agency

Machine Learning Engineer

Mar 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

Driven a impactful solutions which is a cataract deduction app via computer vision tech that propel government forward .
With backend API integrity development with full of privacy , Devloped mutli architure Face Reg model which helps School dropout students, Migration people in india , and various government training in institute to track and monitor them via app in Android mobile , including web app, edge devices like Arduino and Raspberry Pi which doesn't required internet

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Predictive ModelingPostgreSQLDockerMachine LearningImage Processing+3