Nijesh Kanjinghat — Co-Founder
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned AI Engineering leader in Fintech and Healthcare sectors.
Location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Experience: 16 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (ai)
- Generative Ai
- Multi-agent Systems
- Mlops
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
Career 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.
Work Experience
GSDC - Global Skill Development Council
Technical Advisory Board Member (6 mos)
IEEE Standards Association | IEEE SA
Vice Chair (10 mos)
IBM
AI Engineering Lead- watsonx APAC (2 yrs 9 mos)
Sr. Data Scientist, Client Engineering (1 yr)
Sr. Data Scientist, Data Science and AI Elite Team (3 yrs 10 mos)
Data Scientist (2 yrs 6 mos)
Tech Mahindra
Module Lead, Machine Learning (9 mos)
Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
Sr Software Engineer (3 yrs 8 mos)
Tata BlueScope Steel
Senior Associate (1 yr 9 mos)
Schenck Process
Trainee Engineer (5 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Cochin University of Science and Technology
AISSCE at D.A.V public school