Sanket Gandhare — AI Researcher

Sanket Gandhare is an AI leader with over a decade of experience building high-scale intelligent systems. His career tracks the evolution of modern technology: from building the rigorous engineering foundations of cloud services to leading the current frontier of Agentic AI, Responsible AI (RAI) and Personalisation Systems. He combines a researcher's mindset with an engineer's focus on production grade reliability. Career Milestones : Adobe | Leading Agentic AI Currently leading Agentic AI initiatives at Adobe. Designing end-to-end frameworks for reasoning and inference while driving ML powered content relevance for global products. Microsoft | The Conscience of GenAI As a Senior Applied Scientist, he spearheaded Responsible AI for Bing and Copilot, developing multi-modal detection systems (GPT-4o/Vision) and GraphRAG-based threat intelligence system accepted at MLADS conference. Jio Platforms | Intelligence at Scale Led the News AI charter, where he architected and deployed Personalised Recommendation Systems and RAG-based query answering at scale. He managed a team of Data Scientists and Engineers. IBM Software Labs | ML Research Developed award-winning ML pipelines for financial due diligence at IBM, earning the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. Oracle | Engineering Foundations Started his journey building rigorous engineering backbone for enterprise cloud services. Academic Foundation He holds M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay where his research was focused on Spoken Language Translation. He completed his B.Tech in Computer Science from VNIT Nagpur. Core Expertise: • GenAI: Agentic Frameworks, LLMs (GPT-4o, Mistral), RAG & GraphRAG, Vector Databases • ML/Data Science: Responsible AI (RAI), Recommendation Engines, Multi-modal Signals, Emotion Analysis. • Engineering: System Design, Cloud Services, A/B Testing, and End-to-End Deployment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI and ML solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Agentic Ai
Ml/data Science
Responsible Ai
Genai
Recommendation Engines
Personalisation Systems
Ml Research
Data Science
Engineering Foundations

Career Highlights

Over a decade of experience in AI and ML.
Led major AI initiatives at Adobe and Microsoft.
Award-winning contributions to ML research and applications.

Work Experience

Adobe

Machine Learning Engineer (6 mos)

Microsoft

Senior Applied Scientist (1 yr 5 mos)

Jio Platforms Limited (JPL)

Senior Manager Data Science (2 yrs 5 mos)

IBM

Cognitive Data Scientist (3 yrs 5 mos)

Oracle

Senior Member Of Technical Staff (1 yr 4 mos)

Member Of Technical Staff (2 yrs 7 mos)

Education

Master of Technology (MTech) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

12th at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

Sanket Gandhare

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in AI and ML.
Led major AI initiatives at Adobe and Microsoft.
Award-winning contributions to ML research and applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI and ML solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agentic AiMl/data ScienceResponsible AiGenaiRecommendation EnginesPersonalisation SystemsMl ResearchData ScienceEngineering Foundations

Other Skills

Recommender SystemsLarge Language Models (LLM)Technical LeadershipGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)JavaTeamworkSystems DesignPeople ManagementPrompt EngineeringAutomatic Text SummarizationService OperationIndustrial ExperienceApplied Research

About

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

Machine Learning Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

1. Leading Agentic AI initiatives - Designing e2e framework for reasoning, core agent, inference and quality.
2. Leading Search initiatives for Adobe Learning Manager product, driving ML powered content relevance and user experience improvements.

Recommender SystemsLarge Language Models (LLM)Agentic AIML/Data Science

Microsoft

Senior Applied Scientist

May 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

1. Led data science use cases in Responsible AI - Bing RAI team (Search Technology Centre India,STCI) for giving responsible output for Bing, Copilot Search/GenAI by calculating appropriate metrics.
2. Social Attack Detection System - The objective is to analyse social posts on Microsoft products for RAI defect/attack detection. Led end-to-end system design and model/prompt development with usage of GPT4 Turbo, GTP4O, GPT4O-Vision models for multi-modal signals.
3. Threat Intelligence System - Worked on GraphRag system for detection and intervention of attacks. Got MLADS conference accept for the same.

Technical LeadershipGenerative AIResponsible AIGenAI

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

Senior Manager Data Science

Dec 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Managed a team of around 4 engineers and data scientists.
2. Led News charter in Jio Recommendations team
3. Worked in Jio AICoE team for -
a. Jio News - Personalised News Recommendation System
b. Corporate Communications System
c. Skills Extraction from Job Description
d. Content Moderation
e. JioTV Reviews Understanding
f. Generative AI usecases
4. Worked on Indian Language models.
5. Worked on Transformer models like BERT, BART, GPT3, GPT3.5, Mistral etc for various use cases.

Machine LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)Recommendation EnginesPersonalisation Systems

Ibm

Cognitive Data Scientist

Jul 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of IBM India Software Labs group.
1. Worked for the Watson Finance products -
a. Entity Research product for Negative News Ranking
b. Surveillance Insights
c. Insurance Analytics
d. Openpages
2. Experimented, designed pipelines, trained and integrated text based machine learning models as per requirements for the above products.
3. Worked on machine learning models like SVM, Boosting models, RNN, LSTM, BERT etc for various use cases.
4. Won Outstanding Technical Achievement Award(OTAA) for Negative News Ranking work.
5. CSR Activity - Worked on creating CBSE AI curricullum for grade 11 and 12.

Machine LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)ML ResearchData Science

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Feb 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

1. Worked for Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service product which is a secure, collaborative, and process driven service for defining, authoring, reviewing, and publishing financial, management, and regulatory report packages.
2. Formulated the API’s to develop a scenario to test via invoking sequence of API’s.
3. Worked on POC of new features.
4. Code reviews and suggesting ways for code maintainability.
5. Mentored freshers joining the team by helping them understand the team work.

JavaTeamworkEngineering Foundations

Member Of Technical Staff

Jun 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

1. Designed and implemented framework to customize Junit to enhance Reporting and Enable/Disable of testcases via xml configuration.
2. Developed a tool to convert the junit report into desired xml format to upload into other custom tools for viewing the report.
3. Enhanced Junit timeout to control it in centralized manner by configuring timeout via configuration.

JavaEngineering Foundations