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Brijesh Kumar Karna

Bengaluru

Summary

A seasoned Senior Generative AI Engineer with 5+ years experience leading transformative AI projects at prestigious organizations like Ascendion and Jio Platforms. Expertise in the end-to-end development and deployment of AI/ML solutions, including large language models (LLMs) and privacy-centric AI frameworks. Recognized for designing and implementing cutting-edge AI solutions that enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. Proficient in Agile methodologies, with a proven track record of steering cross-functional teams towards achieving technological milestones. Published author on AI model optimization and active participant in AI industry workshops and conferences. Holds advanced certifications in Big Data, Python, Machine Learning, and AI from leading institutions.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Generative AI Engineer

Ascendion
11.2023 - Current
  • Member of the GenAI Core Team, focusing on the development of Responsible AI frameworks and tools for company-wide applications
  • Designed and implemented a Bias Detection model with integrated mitigation features specifically for large language models (LLMs)
  • Led the LLM Fairness Evaluation Project to assess and enhance fairness metrics within model operations
  • Developed a Privacy Scoring Model to identify and manage user-sensitive information in real-time LLM environments
  • Advanced the implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods to align compliance scoring algorithms with the latest AI principles
  • Created a Cyber-attack Forecasting Model utilizing the Prophet forecasting tool for daily, monthly, and yearly threat predictions.

AI Lead(Edge AI Team)

Jio Platforms Limited (JPL)
05.2022 - 10.2023

2nd Core Team Member, Reporting to VP, Dr. Pethru Raj

  • Leadership & Team Management: Hired, handled, and led a talented team of 5 AI Researchers and 8 Research Interns, focusing on multi-domain, multi-vertical AI-related projects
  • AI/ML Architecture & POC Creation: Designed and implemented AI/ML architectures and proof-of-concept for different Reliance Jio verticals, including CloudXP, Jio Security, Jio Eva, and Ajio
  • JioLLM Development: Received accolades for creating Jio's first JioLLM (similar to ChatGPT) for both internal and external use cases, recognized by Anish Shah, President, COO of JPL
  • Virtual Try-On (VTO) Model: Praised by Anand Thakur, CTO, Ajio, for successfully demonstrating a VTO model that enhanced customer experience and reduced returns, impacting 40cr of daily sales
  • Call Center Automation: Created a PaaS architecture for call center automation using LLM, supporting popular regional languages
  • Innovative Solutions for Various Teams: Developed a Log Analyzer/Anomaly detection POC for the CloudXP team
  • Created a POC for an AI-based intrusion detection system for the Jio Infosec team
  • Built and trained an end-to-end MLOps platform for the Edge AI Team
  • Distributed Edge Computing: Worked on distributed edge computing using Kubernetes (k3s) clustering mechanism on edge devices.

Platform & AI Engineer (Innovation Lab)

Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited
07.2020 - 04.2022

Core Team Member, Reporting to Head of Innovation Lab, Mr Shyam Seshadri

  • Building Template Agnostic OCR capabilities for various insured companies like TATA, RELIANCE, SBI, ACKO, GO-DIGIT, UNITED, DHFL, ORIENTAL & THE NEW INDIA
  • Building capabilities to onboarding new document types and maintained more than 95% accuracy
  • Developed an internal tool for OCR Validation, Which is used by our team to validate documents and generate a review report out of it
  • Build a POC for vehicle part detection project, an android app to serve our internal vdd api
  • Which was used by our internal team to assess various functionality like records, detect parts of the vehicle and save the video instances etc
  • Build a POC for email sentimental analysis for the Customer support team
  • Implemented end-to-end computer vision model in AWS sagemaker pipeline for vehicle part detection, and achieved an average 0.4-0.8 milisecond API response time which was previously 6-8 seconds
  • Build pipeline for fraud detection, for company wide document/image fraudulent activity tracking
  • Implemented multithreading/multiprocessing to build an automation script for parallel claims downloading, monitoring and storing.

AI mentor & consultant

BEPEC Solutions
08.2018 - 12.2019

Core Team Member, Reporting to CEO, Mr Rajeev Kanth

  • Mentoring students and professionals on ML/NLP/AI projects and helping them to understand and stay motivated in this field
  • Consulting tech-companies on the implementation of A.I and Machine Learning.

A.I Engineer & Co-Founder

Olva technologies Pvt. Ltd.
10.2017 - 05.2019
  • Team player who can also be independent, prioritize work and thrives in a fast-paced dynamic environment
  • Actively participate in challenging software and hardware research projects focused on applying a combination of Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Representation pipelines to design, analysis, and engineering workflows for real-world problems.

Full-stack Developer

MYANATOMY VENTURES
09.2017 - 11.2017
  • Working with the core team, and built the official website of the company from scratch
  • Increased website visibility and page ranking from 1,30,000 to 22,000 in 3 weeks around the Globe
  • Participated in pre-project analysis and technical assessments to develop a user-friendly interface and correct functionality to meet business objectives.

Education

StepUp, Engineering manager fellowship -

Interview Kickstart
06.2025

Software engineering fellowship -

Scaler Academy
01.2020

Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Computer Science

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University
01.2017

Skills

  • Generative AI
  • Deep Learning Framework
  • Language Processing
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Automation Testing
  • AI/MLOps
  • Docker
  • Cognitive Computing
  • Data Architecture/Systems Designs
  • Machine Learning Algorithms & AI
  • Python Coding, Debugging
  • Predictive Modelling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Version Control: GitLab, GitHub
  • Delivery Excellence
  • Pattern Matching & Recognition
  • Cyber Security

Awards

  • Ascendion AI Circle Star
  • Invited as a Guest Speaker for a National Seminar on AI & ChatGPT at Bharathidasan University(Tamil Nadu).
  • Received Spot Award For Vehicle Damage Detection Project (TATA AIG)
  • Got, 99.96% accuracy in "Medical Image Improving Global Challenge" Hosted By Microsoft
  • Best Ideation Startup form KIIT TBI
  • Received Google India Scholarship Recipient, 2018
  • Qualified for 2nd phase Microsoft NLP Challenge. 2018
  • Received invitation for Quora Partner Program Invite

Certification

  • MLOps Bootcamp | From Zero to Hero
  • Deploying Scalable Machine Learning for Data Science
  • Building and Deploying Deep Learning Applications with TensorFlow
  • Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack
  • Artificial Intelligence for Project Managers
  • Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics
  • Microsoft Professional Certification on Artificial Intelligence
  • UpGrad Entrepreneurship Program
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models

Publications

  • A New BERT-Inspired Knowledge Distillation Approach Toward Compressed AI Models for Edge Devices, Springer International Conference on Robotics, Control, Automation and Artificial Intelligence


  • Pruning and Quantization for Deeper Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model Optimization, Springer International Conference on Security, Privacy and Data Analytics

Languages

English
Oriya
Hindi

Timeline

Sr. Generative AI Engineer

Ascendion
11.2023 - Current

AI Lead(Edge AI Team)

Jio Platforms Limited (JPL)
05.2022 - 10.2023

Platform & AI Engineer (Innovation Lab)

Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited
07.2020 - 04.2022

AI mentor & consultant

BEPEC Solutions
08.2018 - 12.2019

A.I Engineer & Co-Founder

Olva technologies Pvt. Ltd.
10.2017 - 05.2019

Full-stack Developer

MYANATOMY VENTURES
09.2017 - 11.2017

StepUp, Engineering manager fellowship -

Interview Kickstart

Software engineering fellowship -

Scaler Academy

Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Computer Science

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University
Brijesh Kumar Karna