Jayesh Bankoti

DevOps Engineer

India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a 9-member AI/DS team driving strategic AI execution.
Achieved 82% cost reduction through infrastructure optimization.
Architected core AI technologies securing $24M funding.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused AI and NLP engineering leader with a strong emphasis on strategic execution.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai StrategyMachine LearningNlp EngineeringTeam ManagementData Science

Other Skills

ElasticsearchRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)RAGTeam LeadershipSQLClassificationPython (Programming Language)ProbabilityGraph Neural NetworksApplied Machine LearningEngineering ManagementProblem SolvingRegression ModelsMachine Learning AlgorithmsArchitecture

About

Senior Staff AI & NLP Engineering Leader with 8 years driving high-impact AI systems, engineering excellence, and strategic AI execution that pushes products forward and unlocks measurable business outcomes. I build and lead high-velocity teams and architect systems that scale: • Spearheaded AI strategy, engineering execution, and delivery as de facto Head of AI — building and leading a cross-functional 9-member AI/DS org aligned with executive leadership • Drove 120% platform engagement growth by building and productizing narrative intelligence systems powered by advanced embeddings, RAG, and GenAI pipelines • Delivered 82% infrastructure cost reduction through architectural consolidation and optimized GPU/compute strategies • Integral to $24M Series A funding success by architecting and scaling core AI technologies that differentiated the product in market • Led migration of AI platform to Databricks, established robust ML-centric CI/CD and governance for reliable delivery at scale • Built production-ready retrieval systems (RAG, hierarchical retrieval), agentic pipelines, CoT reasoning, LLMS fine-tuned for mission-critical workflows • Proven success bridging research innovation with strong engineering discipline to deliver real products, not prototypes I focus on strategic AI execution, team leadership, and high-leverage technical delivery. If you’re building powerful AI systems or want to solve hard problems with sophisticated NLP/GenAI, let’s connect.

Experience

Logically

2 roles

Senior Staff Engineer - AI Lead

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · India

AI Strategy & Leadership: Promoted to Senior Staff to lead the 9-member AI/DS function, owning the roadmap and delivery with direct CEO alignment.
82% Cost Reduction: Re-architected the entire ML infrastructure, moving from reserved microservices to a monolithic, on-demand workflow, saving massive compute costs.
GenAI & RAG: Deployed Qwen3-based embedding pipelines and a GPU-accelerated clustering system (UMAP + HDBSCAN) to detect viral narratives in real-time.
Agentic Workflows: Designed a modular agentic chatbot (LangChain + SmolAgents) capable of complex, multi-turn analyst workflows with SQL and vector database integration.

ElasticsearchRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AI StrategyMachine Learning

Staff NLP Engineer - Division Head

Dec 2021 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · India

$24M Series A Tech: Architected and built the Narrative Intelligence System, the core technical asset that secured the company's $24M Series A funding.
45% Latency Drop: Standardized deployment on ONNX Runtime + TensorRT with BF16, significantly speeding up model inference across the organization.
Team Building: Built the NLP division from scratch, hiring and mentoring the founding engineering team.

ElasticsearchTeam LeadershipNLP EngineeringAI Strategy

Brane enterprises pvt ltd

2 roles

NLP Team Lead - Solution Leader

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Led 12-member team delivering NLP modules across internal tooling and production interfaces.
Built QA chatbot (BM25 + RoBERTa-SQuAD 2.0), achieving 80% accuracy impact.
Deployed FastAPI inference service with gRPC + TF Serving stack for real-time NLP.

SQLTeam LeadershipNLP EngineeringTeam Management

Data Scientist - Associate Solution Leader

Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Fine-tuned RoBERTa-base Masked LM Model combining merging broken texts into fluent sentence.
Employed Django web framework for API and TF serving for model inference with gRPC requests

SQLClassificationNLP EngineeringMachine Learning

Vmock

Data Scientist

Jul 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Classification models -
Built a classification model employing a Bi-directional LSTM network with attention for the detection of function for the resume sections.
Built a CNN model employing various n-grams pooling to obtain a classification model for the function of a job title.
Resume Optimizer ATS -
Implemented ensemble of a CNN classification model(sentence & section) for extracting role, requirement, and company sentences from JD achieving 92% F1 score, Further employed skills NER for extraction of skills on sentences.
Built Knowledge graph over skill ontology database to obtain relations between skills and their sub-skills.
Development of product (WOJ) -
Developed of Built the back-end logic in PHP from the automated sourcing of jobs with zero cost to prioritization logic for the user based on his preferences like location, industry with elastic-search.
Built a Recommendation engine based on a user’s activity on the platform using collaborative filtering.

SQLClassificationMachine LearningData Science

Boston scientific

Intern

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Analyzed force losses along with any endoscopy device, pioneering a mathematical model for force transmission with a remarkable 85 percent accuracy, further simulated model in Matlab with an interactive GUI.
Identified major factor responsible for the lower force transmission leading to a 35 percent increment in the same.

Python (Programming Language)Probability