Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · 6 mos · India · On-site

Sep 2024 – Nov 2024 · 2 mos · India · On-site

• Taught a comprehensive course on AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI system deployment. The course combined theoretical deep dives with hands-on challenges, culminating in a 2-day hackathon where students developed innovative AI projects. Open-sourced the course materials through AI Engineering Academy to make practical AI education more accessible.

Sep 2024 – Nov 2024 · 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Jun 2024 – Nov 2024 · 5 mos · Remote

Sep 2023 – Jan 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Currently engaged in cutting-edge research on Vision Transformers, exploring applications in Video Surveillance. OCR, RAG Optimisation
• Developed a prompt testing and optimization application, resulting in a notable 15% increase in model performance and testing.

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr · India · On-site

• Lead a team of executives to organize workshops, events and activities to promote learning about Google technologies.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative environment for students to explore latest technologies.
• Work closely with industry professionals to provide insights and opportunities to members.
• Promote innovation, skill development and growth mindset among current club members.
• Aim to positively impact college's tech culture and empower students to pursue technological passions.

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 2 mos · India · Remote

• Built an end-to-end generative AI application that utilizes the latest generative AI models and tech stack.
• Optimized the application for production, ensuring efficient and scalable performance.
• Deployed an enterprise-level document query system and hosted the application on Azure, optimizing costs while ensuring 99% uptime and 100% consistency in the AI pipeline.

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• CognitiveLab is an open-source-first research lab based in India, dedicated to building state-of-the-art AI models.
• Notable Open-Source Projects
• Ambari: India’s first Kannada bilingual Large Language Model.
• Omniparse: A scalable data ingestion platform.
• VARAG: A research project exploring advanced AI capabilities.
• AI Engineering Academy: A platform for structured learning in applied AI.
• Worked with enterprise/business clients to solve real-world problems using Generative AI as the backbone. This involved training models from scratch, fine-tuning them, testing, and evaluating them to meet benchmarks.
• Developed Ambari, India’s first Kannada bilingual Large Language Model, advancing linguistic capabilities.The model is fully
• open source, fostering collaboration and innovation in the AI community.
• Engineered Cognitune, an enterprise-grade LLMops platform, significantly reducing time to production for companies deploying
• LLMs by an impressive 60%, coupled with a 30% reduction in deployment testing costs.
• Pioneered fine-tuning as a service, successfully fine-tuning over 50 models for various use cases, including domain/language adaptation, personality injection, instruction following, and function calling.

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · India · Remote

• Worked on AI-generated report generation using Language Models (LLMs) to evaluate and test employees.
• Researched and implemented robust video generation pipelines and face recognition pipelines optimized for
• cloud-based deployments.
• Developed a video generation pipeline that maintains style consistency and prompt relevance

Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 · 4 mos · Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Created and Maintained a FOSS Repository
• WORLD OF AI : An open-source repository for AI-based projects 🚀, from beginner to expert level, helping contributors start their journey in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. Our projects provide hands-on experience to real-world problems👨‍💻. Join our community and contribute to the development of AI-based solutions 👥.

Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 · 4 mos · India · Hybrid

Mar 2023 – Jun 2023 · 3 mos · India · Hybrid

• Worked on building the MVP for Placify, an early stage startup aiming to bring transparency to university placement processes.
• Built dashboards for students to view available placement opportunities and track their applications
• Gained hands-on experience with rapidly evolving requirements of an early stage startup product

Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 · 2 mos · India · Hybrid

• Developed a professional website for the Pocket Coach team - https://pcsports.in/.
• The website played a pivotal role in establishing the team's online presence and providing vital information to potential investors.
• Worked as a developer on a high-performance backend to support a cross-platform app based on Flutter.
• Worked on deployment of server on google cloud platform(GCP) to be highly scalable but cost efficient.

Oct 2022 – Nov 2022 · 1 mo · India

Sep 2022 – Mar 2023 · 6 mos · India · Hybrid

• Led the creation of an intuitive and visually pleasing app for the target audience.
• Collaborated closely with the frontend team, facilitating seamless alignment.
• Conceptualized user flows, resulting in 70 % increase in user navigation efficiency.
• Crafted 30 number of wireframes and prototypes, refining the design iteratively.
• Successfully fused creativity with functionality, enhancing user engagement significantly.
• Internship experience refined my design sensibilities for greater proficiency.

Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 · 3 mos · India · Hybrid

• As a full-stack developer intern at Enable Upcycling, I designed and developed their e-commerce website, https://enableupcycling.com/, from scratch. This website allowed the company to sell bags online while providing a seamless shopping experience for customers. I integrated features to track the number of orders and stay in contact with the upcyclers.
• I optimized the website for performance, accessibility, and SEO, resulting in a Lighthouse score of 90 for each category. This demonstrated the website’s high standard of functionality and user experience.
• In addition to designing and implementing the front-end interface, I also developed the back-end architecture and database design, achieving a 99.9% uptime rate during load testing.
• This was a paid internship, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with Enable on this project.

Aug 2022 – May 2023 · 9 mos · India

• Led a team of student developers to build an official website for [Club Name] using modern web technologies like React, Node.js.
• Instituted development best practices like code reviews, testing protocols and CI/CD pipelines to deliver a high quality product.
• Mentored team members, managed project timelines, and liaised with stakeholders using agile methodologies.

May 2022 – Sep 2022 · 4 mos · India · Remote

• Contributed to open source IoT and deep learning projects during Social Summer of Code, ranking #12 internationally.
• Submitted meaningful pull requests to repositories including IoT-Spot (IoT & Automation) and DL Simplified (ML and DL).
• Enhanced existing functionality, fixed bugs and implemented new features in Python and JavaScript based repos.

Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · India

• Designed and developed a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with a tri-copter configuration for efficient
• medicine delivery to rural clinics.
• Utilized advanced flight control systems, such as GPS and computer vision, to ensure accurate and safe delivery of
• medicines.
• Successfully demonstrated the VTOL’s capabilities through a series of field tests and prototype iterations

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · India

• Led a team of student developers to build an official website for [Club Name] using modern web technologies like React, Node.js.
• Instituted development best practices like code reviews, testing protocols and CI/CD pipelines to deliver a high quality product.
• Mentored team members, managed project timelines, and liaised with stakeholders using agile methodologies.