Experience
Technical Lead — GenAI
Jan 2025 — Present
Elastiq AI · Bangalore, India
Lead the design and development of an enterprise RAG platform spanning ingestion, retrieval, ranking, and access control across cloud providers.
- Architecting scalable distributed-database solutions via Citus DB research and implementation for enterprise-scale workloads.
- Mentoring cross-functional team on robust data pipelines, complex LLM fine-tuning challenges, and enterprise deployment strategies.
- Collaborating with senior leadership on strategic product development and onboarded the first enterprise client for the Text2SQL solution.
- Evaluating emerging protocols like MCP for enterprise connectors.
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2024 — Jan 2025
Elastiq AI · Bangalore, India
Foundational AI engineering on Discover — Elastiq's flagship product — covering fine-tuning, retrieval, and agent design.
- Fine-tuned LLaMA 3.1 70B via advanced QLoRA and LoRA techniques, reaching 85% target accuracy.
- Built the foundational Text2SQL framework from scratch and shipped AI agents for natural-language to SQL plus unstructured file processing.
- Integrated multiple Graph DB backends offering Classic RAG, Cypher-based RAG, and GraphRAG — extending Discover with structural retrieval.
- Engineered custom datasets and context-aware chunking algorithms for unstructured-document RAG performance.
Senior Data Scientist
May 2023 — Aug 2024
Acuity Knowledge Partners · Bangalore, India
Senior Data Scientist at a research, analytics, and technology partner to the financial services sector — asset managers, investment banks, private equity, hedge funds, and consulting firms.
- Developed a versatile analysis dashboard for an investment firm enabling KPI monitoring and analysis experiments — 87% reduction in client analysis time.
- Built a web dashboard integrated with an ESG data engine for a top-tier investment firm, shaping their investment-strategy decisions.
- Shipped an end-to-end RAG system for parsing financial reports.
Associate, Data Scientist
Dec 2021 — Apr 2023
TheMathCompany · Bangalore, India
- Led a 5-person team shipping a flexible A/B Testing Framework for a leading pharmaceutical client to measure promotion success against revenue lift.
- Co-led a 7-person team on a sales-anomaly flag pipeline accounting for seasonality — drove customer outreach delivering +$125K revenue in Q1.
- Built an LSTM model forecasting customer return-to-purchase windows for supply and demand balancing — R² 0.9012.
Data Analyst
May 2021 — Dec 2021
Recruitment Smart Technologies · Ahmedabad, India
- Reduced new-client integration from 10 days to 3 hours (97% improvement). Operational reports from 5 days to 30 minutes; opportunity reports from 1 day to 30 minutes.
- Reduced advanced-analytics report generation from 7 days to 15 minutes (99% improvement). Automated Power BI dashboard refreshes.
- Awarded Star Performer of the Month.
Data Scientist
Aug 2019 — Apr 2021
Sumyag Data Sciences · Bangalore, India
- Designed a multi-phase pipeline enriching extracted document data points — generated 500+ features via NLP, data wrangling, and text mining.
- Co-developed a matrix-multiplication ensemble on the NumPy stack across 10+ unique sources for entity classification, plus custom Bayesian models for word embeddings.
- Shipped end-to-end claims-document pipelines for automobile and healthcare enterprise clients; built a geometric model for tabular-entity extraction using asymmetric graphs.
Data Science Mentor (Freelance)
Dec 2020 — May 2023
Independent · Topmate
- Mentored college students and working professionals transitioning into data science — career strategy, project review, and mock interviews for analytics and ML roles.