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VISHAL KOLKI

VISHAL KOLKI

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Artificial Intelligence Engineer with a proven track record at IBM, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI. Successfully developed and deployed LLM-based chatbots, enhancing client interactions. Adept in SQL and Python, with strong collaboration skills, driving impactful data engineering solutions in diverse projects.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

IBM
Bengaluru
08.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: AI projects
  • Explorations and setup of various products of IBM viz. DB2, SQLDI
  • MongoDB and Hazelcast for various Unstructured data analytics projects
  • Data Engineering, Model development, implementation and inference for Railway department and other prediction projects.
  • Synthetic data generation product for an insurance client
  • Training, building and deployment of LLM based chatbot for the internal product that helps clients to get answers

Data Engineering Consultant

Accenture
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 08.2022
  • Company Overview: Life Sciences client
  • Drug Discovery and COVID data analytics
  • Life Sciences client
  • Continous interation with client's team
  • Automated the legacy excel work which had 10s of excels and sheet within in python

- Writing complex SQL scripts and Python codes to automate the processes and deploy for scheduling and reporting using Tableau.

Data Engineering Analyst

Kogentix-DBS
Hyderabad
07.2018 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: Banking Big Data project - DBS bank Project migration from SQL ecosystem to Hadoop ecosystem
  • Data from SQL database moved to Hive and HDFS
  • Complex Logic writing from PLSQL to Spark-Java
  • Data verification and validation, Code coverage etc

Big Data Engineer

Kogentix - Nielsen
Hyderabad
06.2017 - 06.2018
  • Company Overview: Big Data Engineer
  • Being a Big Data Engineer, I worked on Neilsen data project included Hive and Kudu for data retrieving.
  • Made hands dirty on skills like SQL, Scala, Spark, HDFS, Hive, PL/SQL
  • Write Spark-Scala code just based on PL/SQL logics available then validate the data from source system to target HDFS storage.

Big Data Engineer-Intern

Kogentix Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
03.2017 - 05.2017
  • Explored various Data Science uses and studied case-studies required for the product of the company.
  • Contributed in product development which needed ML knowledge and Big Data Knowledge.
  • My module was mainly for finding a suitable algorithm for the provided dataset based on the efficacy metrics.

Data Science Intern

ZettaMine Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 02.2017
  • My Responsibility is to handle particular module of the product, which becomes the major task and Final thesis Project of my Masters
  • Included Machine Learning algorithms to be executed for data feed and return the analyzed and predicted results based on inputs provided.
  • Wrote Sentiment analysis code on speeches by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, needed for the website of the organisation.

Education

Master of Technology (MTech) - Computer Science (Specialization in Big Data Analytics)

Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai
04.2016

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

Sri Tontadarya College of Engineering
GADAG
04.2013

Skills

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Generative AI
  • LLMs and RAGs
  • SQL
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Python, Scala, R and Java
  • Spark, HDFS, Hive
  • Databases: Oracle
  • DB2, PostgreSQL, Redshift
  • MongoDB, Hazelcast
  • Cloud: GCP
  • Data engineering

Certification

Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals, Databricks, 08/01/23, 08/01/25, 79616074

Awards

  • Star of the Month, IBM, Mar/23, for all the Data Engineering tasks on a Data Science project
  • Star of the Month, IBM, Aug/24, for Synthetic Data generation product and leading the validation process
  • Best Performer, Accenture-AI, and multiple appreciation emails from client leaderships from BMS client.

Languages

  • English, Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
  • Kannada, Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
  • Marathi, Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
  • Hindi, Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
  • Telugu, Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

IBM
08.2022 - Current

Data Engineering Consultant

Accenture
01.2020 - 08.2022

Data Engineering Analyst

Kogentix-DBS
07.2018 - 12.2019

Big Data Engineer

Kogentix - Nielsen
06.2017 - 06.2018

Big Data Engineer-Intern

Kogentix Pvt. Ltd.
03.2017 - 05.2017

Data Science Intern

ZettaMine Labs Pvt. Ltd.
07.2016 - 02.2017

Master of Technology (MTech) - Computer Science (Specialization in Big Data Analytics)

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

Sri Tontadarya College of Engineering
VISHAL KOLKI