Senior Data Scientist | 8+ years @ Apple, Walmart, IBM
Building production-grade AI systems that bridge cutting-edge research with real-world constraints. $50M+ business impact across roles.
📍 Bengaluru, India | Open to remote
GenAI & LLMs RAG • Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA/RLHF) • Claude/GPT/LLaMA • Prompt Engineering • Semantic Search
Computer Vision SLAM • YOLO • SAM/CLIP • 3D Reconstruction • Thermal Imaging • Edge Deployment
NLP Transformers • Embedding Models • NER • Multilingual Systems (built Telugu SLM from scratch)
MLOps AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda) • Docker • CI/CD • Model Monitoring • A/B Testing
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| RLHF Portfolio | 3 production-ready RLHF projects - DPO, Constitutional AI, Full RLHF Pipeline (SFT→Reward→PPO). 5,000 lines, Docker, AWS deployment | PyTorch, TRL, LoRA, Gradio |
| Telugu Agri SLM | 110M param Telugu language model with custom tokenizer for agricultural Q&A | PyTorch, SentencePiece, FastAPI |
| CV Defense Portfolio | 4,000 lines of production CV for defense: thermal, 3D, SLAM | Python, OpenCV, NumPy |
| Medical SAM-CLIP | Zero-shot medical image segmentation | SAM, CLIP, PyTorch |
| Multi-Modal RAG | Chat with documents (text + charts + images) | LangChain, Chroma, OpenAI |
| Neural SLAM | Real-time 3D reconstruction from video | PyTorch, Open3D |
| Company | Role | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Senior Data Scientist | GenAI systems for on-device AI |
| Walmart | Principal Data Scientist | $50M+ revenue optimization via ML |
| IBM | Data Scientist | Enterprise AI solutions |
- RLHF & AI Alignment - Preference optimization, reward modeling, constitutional AI
- Defense Foundation Models - SAM for thermal/surveillance applications
- Edge AI - On-device inference for defense hardware
- Visual Odometry - GPS-denied navigation systems
- 3D Gaussian Splatting - Real-time 3D reconstruction
- Mamba & State Space Models - Efficient sequence modeling
I'm always interested in:
- 🤝 Research collaborations in Defense AI, Computer Vision, Healthcare AI
- 💼 Senior IC roles - Data Scientist / Gen AI Engineer / Applied Research / ML Engineer
📧 vrc7.ds@gmail.com | LinkedIn
⭐ If you find my work interesting, let's build something together! ⭐