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Nijesh Kanjinghat

Co-Founder

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore16 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 16 years of experience in AI and Machine Learning.
  • Expert in Large Language Models and Generative AI.
  • Leader in AI Engineering initiatives across APAC.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned AI Engineering leader in Fintech and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Generative AiMulti-agent SystemsMlopsNatural Language ProcessingMachine Learning

Other Skills

AI EngineeringReinforcement LearningAgentic AIStatisticsDeep LearningPyTorchTransformersFederated LearningC++Pandas (Software)Model MonitoringTerraformDockersKubernetesScikit-Learn

About

Seasoned Artificial Intelligence practitioner and thought leader with 16 Years of core experience with a focus on Big data Analytics, Machine Learning/Deep Learning with a proven track record to architect, develop and deliver customised analytical solutions to clients at scale and precision. Nijesh leads an AI Engineering Team in APAC, driving APAC clients' AI initiatives using Generative AI. His expertise spans MLOps, LLMOps, and specialized governance and evaluation of LLM applications. Industry Exposure: Banking and Finance, Retail , Healthcare, Public Sector , Telecommunication and Manufacturing . Cloud Experience: IBM, AWS, Azure ,GCP TechStack: Languages : Python, C++, JavaScript , Java MLStack : PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Sklearn Large Language Model 1. Building LLM applications using Langchain , LlamaIndex,watsonx,Huggingface and OpenAI models. 2. Prompt Engineering Techniques : Chain of Thought and Tree of Thought etc 3. Retrieval Augmented Generation using Vector stores like chromaDB, milvus, FAISS or SingleStore. 4. Multimodal models 5. Function Calling and Multi Agentic workflow implementation 6. SFT, RHLF, prompt engineering, data synthesis, automatic evaluation 7. Knowledge Distillation and Model Optimisation 8. Attention Optimisation and Speculative Decoding 9. Reflection and Critique LLMs. 10. Reasoning and Introspection 11. Ethical and Responsible AI Core Interest : Large Language Models, Visual Language Models , Code generation and Multi Modal Foundational Models Some of the Core Skills include: 1) Statistical Analysis and Hypothesis testing. 2) Supervised ,Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Solutions. 3) Recommender systems. 4) Scalable Forecasting. 5) Distributed Machine Learning. 6) Machine Learning Operations(MLOps). 7) Contextual Search Engine and Ranking. 8) Explainability and Drift detection in ML Models. 9) Detecting Inherent bias and debiasing in ML Models. 10) Model Metadata capturing and AI Governance. 11) Building Trustworthy AI Models. 12) A/B Testing and Multi Armed Bandits. 13) Reinforcement Learning. 14) Mathematical Optimization using Linear, Integer and Mixed Integer Programming. 15) Federated Learning. 16) Large Language Models 17) Tuning and Quantization of LLM

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Gsdc - global skill development council

Technical Advisory Board Member

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos · Singapore · Remote

  • 🔹 Bringing industry perspectives from my work in AI Engineering, Responsible AI, and Governance
  • 🔹 Contributing to the evolution of high-quality, globally recognized certification programs
  • 🔹 Supporting a broader ecosystem of professionals who are advancing their careers in next-generation technologies
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIAI Engineering

Ieee standards association | ieee sa

Vice Chair

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Remote

  • Non -profit collaboration in personal capacity .
  • IEEE SA IC25 - 003™ Evaluation of Multi Agent System
Multi-agent SystemsReinforcement LearningGenerative AIAgentic AIStatistics

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4 roles

AI Engineering Lead- watsonx APAC

Promoted

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • AI Engineering Lead at IBM APAC, driving the design and deployment of Foundation Models, including LLMs and multimodal systems, across Banking, Telecom, and Financial Services. Specializing in scalable LLMOps, ML Powered Search, GenAI optimization, and AI governance — with hands-on leadership in RAG, quantization, and self-reflective agents for safe, high-performance AI delivery.
Deep LearningPyTorchMLOpsGenerative AITransformersArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Sr. Data Scientist, Client Engineering

Jul 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr

Natural Language ProcessingPyTorchFederated LearningMLOpsGenerative AIC+++2

Sr. Data Scientist, Data Science and AI Elite Team

Sep 2018Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • A Senior Data Scientist in the Data Science Elite Team of Software labs under IBM Analytics Hybrid cloud Team, Singapore:
  • Recent Work includes:
  • 1. Built a Solution to Explain and explain the ML Model using Watson Openscale and techniques like SHAP, Shapely, LIME ,ELI5 and Partial Dependency Plots.
  • 2. Architected a supervised machine learning solution to predict the breach
  • detection using unstructured data with an accuracy of 95%.
  • 3. Built a Patient Hierarchical Model to predict the ranked list of patients in the
  • order of cardiac risk with 94% accuracy.
Machine LearningPandas (Software)Deep LearningModel MonitoringPyTorchFederated Learning+8

Data Scientist

Mar 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • 1. Building machine learning induced Data pipelines
  • 2. Scalable Machine learning and development of machine learning algorithms from scratch viz Artificial Neural Networks.
  • 3. Distributed Computing and Big Data Analytics with Spark and Python.
  • 4. Advanced Neural networks including Recurrent Neural Networks,Convolution Neural Network and Efficient Back-propagation algorithms
  • 5. Development of Scalable machine learning algorithms like Artificial Neural Networks from Scratch.
  • 6. Development of Industry Standard Interfaces and APIs for Machine learning algorithms.
  • 7. Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis at Scale .
  • 8. Building Interfaces to Interactive Machine Learning Platforms.
  • 9. Natural language Processing with Recurrent Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks.
  • 10. Unsupervised Learning with textual corpus using techniques like Topic Modelling.
  • 11. SVD and Latent Semantic Analysis for Dimensionality reduction and Search Models.
  • 12. Formulation of Model Evaluation using Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain.
Pandas (Software)Scikit-LearnArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Tech mahindra

Module Lead, Machine Learning

Jun 2015Mar 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Lead Machine Learning Engineer .. Some of the work includes:
  • 1. Built a Scalable Article Author Disambiguation model in Python using NLP &
  • Machine learning to help disambiguate author citation issues.
  • 2. Designed and built a Customized Neural Network Library in Python for a
  • Banking Client.
  • 3. Trained and built time series models to predict the energy demand for a
  • Utility Client for next 6 months using Markovian Model.
  • 4. Working on Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Models using Scikitlearn & R.
  • 5.Building drivers to handle Hadoop file output for compatibility with Unix environment.
  • 6.Tweaking Natural language Processing Engines using Watson Analytics and Opensource APIs
  • 4.Multiprocessing with Python.
  • 8 Evaluating and cross validation of models using Inferential statistics.
Pandas (Software)C++Scikit-LearnArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Bosch engineering and business solutions

Sr Software Engineer

Sep 2011May 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Job role highlights included:
  • 1. Built and Trained a machine learning model to predict the likelihood of
  • sensor failure in consumer boilers.
  • 2. Developed software for consumer boilers using state-machines and Python.
  • 3.Implemented an image classification model using Convolutional Neural
  • Network to detect the different boiler types across 9 categories with an
  • accuracy of 81 %.
  • 4.Automation and Tool development using Java and Python
  • 5. Using CNN for Image Detection of Boilers inside a custom made Bot by Bosch GmbH.
  • 6.Text Mining, Web crawling at Scale using Python.
  • 7. Performance Enhancement of already developed Tools using multiprocessing and structured and
  • efficient algorithms viz. heavy use of generators.
  • 8.Extending Python with C at times for performance enhancer.
  • 9.Using R for Statistical Modelling and Analysis.
  • Environment: Windows 7, Python, Java, Finite State Machines,SQL
Python (Programming Language)Pandas (Software)C++Scikit-LearnArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Tata bluescope steel

Senior Associate

Aug 2009May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Jamshedpur Area, India

  • 1.Built an ARIMA-TimeSeries model to predict the sales of Steel coils over a
  • quarter.
  • 2. Built a preventive maintenance model using sensor data to predict the
  • likelihood of temperature sensors in plant.
  • 3. Data Querying using SQL.
  • 4. Statistical Data Analysis using Plant Automation data.
  • 5. Inferential reporting using Excel and Python

Schenck process

Trainee Engineer

Mar 2009Aug 2009 · 5 mos · Ranchi Area, India

  • Primary responsibilities included the following:
  • 1.Scripting and report generation with Python for legacy tools
  • 2.Automation Tools for UI based experience for weighing system.
  • 3.Interface of the tool to existing server database.
  • 4. Data Analysis on Weighing system performance.

Education

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics and Instrumentation

Jan 2004Jan 2008

D.A.V public school

AISSCE

Jan 1989Jan 2004

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