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Shridhar  Agarwal

Shridhar Agarwal

AI/ML Specialist
Bangalore

Summary

An AI/ML Specialist with 8+ years of experience and a keen interest in the space of Gen-AI, NLP & CV. I have also worked as AI Consultant and I enjoy solving complex business problem, guiding projects from initial conceptualization to production, consistently delivering impactful solutions.



Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

AI/ML Specialist

Cambridge University Press And Assessment
05.2023 - 07.2024

Worked as Lead AI Engineer for Online Course System of Cambridge University

  • Built a Student Companion System using RAG with capabilities to answer questions from courses (with multi-modal content), verify generated response (using agentic chain), semantic search course content (using vectordb), generate quiz and opt from pedagogical styles
  • Built a Automatic Marking System using few-shot prompting which scores short answers (~85% acc) & provides reasoning using CoT

AI Consultant

Ponderbot Analytics
9 2022 - 05.2023

I am the proprietary owner of this firm

  • For a travel business, built a chatbot which takes personality quiz and recommends places and activities most suited to their taste
  • For a cyber-security client, built an web-extension capable of parsing cyber-security related entities from new-articles
  • For a marketing client, built 15+ projects related to recommendation, retention, campaign targeting and customer segmentation
  • For a grocery business, built a chatbot which can fetch details about the products and availability from db and answer relevant questions
  • Built a sports business, built a Gym-Drill Analysis System recorded drill timing and accuracy using CV models like Mediapipe & YOLOv4

Senior Data Scientist

Cyware Labs
08.2021 - 09.2022

Operated as the sole ML engineer. Built end-to-end ML products.

  • Built an Entity Extraction Model using SPACY(~0.78 F1) for extraction of 12 cybersecurity entities. Used combination of NER, sentence classification and rule-based matching. Experimented w. BERT & STANZA models
  • Built a Tactic & Technique multi-label classification model using a custom ML pipeline of several LR models being used in sequence & parallel
  • Built the application using Python and Django to support ML models. Used multi-tread parallel processing to reduce inference time. Also implemented feedback mechanism for future retraining
  • Developed POC of a Text-to-NoSQL system for Elastic Search db using pretrained PICARD model modified to support ES db

Data Scientist

Dell EMC
04.2019 - 07.2021
  • Built Order Forecasting for capacity planning using FB-Prophet
  • Built ML Management System w. Airflow , MLFlow for Continuous Training , Registry & Tracking
  • Built Table Parser (~80% acc) for PO. Used FasterRCNN for table & row detection & BiLSTM to map column to headers
  • Built Prod Desc Matching w. BERT using Triplet Loss.

Data Scientist

SquareOne Insights Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2019
  • Built Transactional Anomaly Detection System on SMACK using rule based statistical models to return risk-score under 300ms
  • Built Credit Risk Model (~0.81 F1) with Random Forest on Spark.

Software Engineer

Loylty Rewards Pvt Ltd
07.2016 - 06.2017
  • Upgraded db entry system (Stored Procedures SQL) from single to double entry (credit & debit) across 18 banking clients

Education

B-Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
07.2012 - 2016.06

Class 12th -

John Milton Senior Secondary School, Agra
04.2011 - 2012.04

Class 10th -

The Scindia School
04.2009 - 2010.04

Timeline

AI/ML Specialist

Cambridge University Press And Assessment
05.2023 - 07.2024

Senior Data Scientist

Cyware Labs
08.2021 - 09.2022

Data Scientist

Dell EMC
04.2019 - 07.2021

Data Scientist

SquareOne Insights Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2019

Software Engineer

Loylty Rewards Pvt Ltd
07.2016 - 06.2017

B-Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
07.2012 - 2016.06

Class 12th -

John Milton Senior Secondary School, Agra
04.2011 - 2012.04

Class 10th -

The Scindia School
04.2009 - 2010.04

AI Consultant

Ponderbot Analytics
9 2022 - 05.2023
Shridhar AgarwalAI/ML Specialist