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Machine Learning Engineer @ Guidewire

5+ yrs of ML experience bridging 3D Computer Vision and LLM optimization, spanning foundational research to enterprise production. Proven track record of shipping optimized spatial pipelines and architecting large-scale agentic AI systems. Skilled in translating cutting-edge prototypes (NeRFs, Gaussian Splats) and fine-tuned language models into scalable, production-ready workflows for complex computing challenges.

LLM Optimization 3D Computer Vision Agentic AI Systems Production AWS ML
  1. Experience Apr 2024 - Present

    Machine Learning Engineer II

    Guidewire

    San Mateo, CA, USA • Full-Time

    Leading enterprise ML systems across OCR-RAG-LLM optimization, claim summarization, geospatial hazard intelligence, digital twin simulation, and production AWS pipelines.

    RLHFQLoRAQwenRAGAgentic AIAWSGeospatial CVDigital Twins
    • • Automated prompt-prefix tuning for OCR-RAG-LLMs using RLHF, Bayesian optimization for LLM hyperparameter tuning, and CMA-ES for RAG hyperparameter tuning across five lines of business, reaching an average score of 0.875 across Levenshtein, F1-score, and ROUGE-L.
    • • Finetuned and deployed a Qwen-3-4B claim-summarization QLoRA adapter with a 0.76 score, improving 6% across ROUGE-L, BERTScore, and domain-based evaluation after comparative analysis against GEMMA 3-4B QLoRA and base models.
    • • Innovated an auto-annotation pipeline for community outline segmentation with hazard-based SatelliteMAE optical/SAR modeling, improving average Dice coefficient to 0.92 with late fusion for public safety buildings derived from news text and imagery.
    • • Developed an agentic AI workflow with tool calling, chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, and graph-of-thought reasoning across branched SFT DocLLM, OCR-RAG-LLM, and BDA systems to reduce false positive rates in Year Loss Tables for cyber risk modeling.
    • • Architected digital twin simulation infrastructure to model complex cyber risks on network infrastructure, analyzing phase-shift signals and packet captures to simulate and predict multi-stage attack vectors.
    • • Built batch and on-demand feature stores and pipelines with S3, Step Functions, DAGs, ECS services, and TeamCity CI/CD, using CodeLLaMA for HCL generation with evacc 81% and integrated Mann-Whitney U gate plus z-score temporal drift monitoring.
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  2. Research Jan 2022 - Jul 2024

    AI/ML Computer Vision Research Engineer & Graduate Research Assistant

    University of Southern California (USC ISI and USC IMSC labs)

    Los Angeles, CA, USA / Remote • Full-Time

    Combined USC research work across neural rendering, 3D reconstruction, split computing, and applied computer vision from lab experimentation through survey publication.

    NeRF3D ReconstructionSplit ComputingCVATComputer VisionWeights & Biases
    • • Published the survey “Neural Radiance Fields: Past, Present, and Future” on neural rendering and 3D graphics compression, and created tutorial material that translated research papers into implementation guidance.
    • • Applied 3D reconstruction techniques across astronomy, geospatial analysis, medical imaging, and autonomous-vehicle settings.
    • • Annotated 2.5 hours of heavy-vehicle video using CVAT in Pascal VOC format for different lighting conditions.
    • • Benchmarked MobileNet, EfficientNet, and ResNet for street cleanliness classification, improving accuracy to 0.71.
    • • Demonstrated the I-SPLIT split-computing algorithm on edge devices using cumulative importance and Grad-CAM-based CUI maps.
    • • Implemented Img2Pose, 3D Dense Face Alignment, 3D Dense Face Alignment V2, Position-map Regression Network, and Volumetric Regression Network pipelines, evaluated with normalized mean error on Weights & Biases.
  3. Experience Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

    Senior CV Engineer (Founding)

    Remix Inc

    Palo Alto, CA, USA • Full-Time

    Built real-time novel-view-synthesis and rendering systems for dynamic 3D telepresence.

    NeRFLeRFCOLMAPCUDAUnity HDRPMulti-GPU
    • • Reduced virtual teleporter latency to 38 ms / 27 fps under real-time dynamic and lighting conditions.
    • • Trained LeRF with ViT-L/14 embeddings for 12 custom scenes, reaching 97.56% recognized scenes from COLMAP pipelines.
    • • Built multi-GPU rendering and visualization systems using Gaussian Splatting, YOLO, GPT/VLM integrations, Unity HDRP, Node, and React.
  4. Research Jan 2023 - May 2023

    AI/ML Research Engineer

    KNOW Systems, Inc

    Los Angeles, CA, USA • Full-Time

    Worked on GenerativeQA, evaluation pipelines, and neural rendering proof-of-concepts for research-driven products.

    GPT-JGPT-NeoXFastAPINLP EvaluationCI/CD
    • • Personalized GenerativeQA models with GPT-J and GPT-NeoX prompt engineering, improving METEOR to 22.34 and STS to 0.87.
    • • Compared model-based approaches and loss functions using BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR, and STS-driven evaluation.
    • • Prepared FastAPI-ready avatar and neural rendering PoCs and added CI/CD workflows for monitoring and version control.
  5. Experience May 2022 - Aug 2022

    Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    Guidewire

    San Mateo, CA, USA • Internship

    Built data-quality tooling, automated reporting, and geospatial hazard proof-of-concepts for insurance data science teams.

    SageMakerAthenaDockerData QualityGeospatial CV
    • • Developed a data-quality framework across SageMaker, Athena, PostgreSQL, and S3 that improved team velocity by 8%.
    • • Automated dashboard and report generation with Docker-based ML test suites, statistical drift checks, and scheduled processing jobs.
    • • Built a fire-hydrant detection proof-of-concept on super-resolved geospatial rasters and presented a NeRF survey across internal teams.
  6. Research Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

    Student Research Worker

    USC Marshall School of Business

    Los Angeles, CA, USA • Part-Time

    Supported quantum-computing research discovery and researcher-clustering pipelines.

    Topic ModelingBERTopicSciBERTResearch Mining
    • • Worked on topic modeling with LDA, LSA, HDP, and BERTopic using SciBERT and OAG-BERT embeddings.
    • • Planned a Fastlink-based EM pipeline on researcher and ORCID data to cluster investigators by research area.
  7. Education Aug 2021 - May 2023

    Master of Science in Computer Science

    University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, CA, USA • Graduate Study

    Completed an MS in Computer Science while working across USC research labs on computer vision, AI systems, and machine learning problems.

    Artificial IntelligenceDeep LearningApplied NLPAdvanced Computer VisionInformation Retrieval
    • • MS in Computer Science.
    • • Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Deep Learning, Applied NLP, Advanced Computer Vision.
    • • Additional coursework: Autonomous Cyber Physical System, Information Retrieval, and Web Search Engines.
    • • Balanced graduate coursework with research roles at USC ISI, IMSC, and Marshall School of Business.
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  8. Education Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

    Summer School and Quantum Computing Programs

    Qiskit Global Summer School and QxQ by Coding School

    Remote • Certificate Programs

    Completed focused quantum-computing programs alongside machine-learning work and graduate-school preparation.

    Quantum ComputingQiskitIBMQxQ
    • • Qiskit Global Summer School (QGSS'21) certificate, completed May 2021 - June 2021.
    • • Introduction to Quantum Computing by QxQ by Coding School, completed October 2020 - May 2021.
  9. Experience Sep 2020 - Aug 2021

    Data Scientist

    Sociometrik Infer Private Limited

    Delhi, India • Full-Time

    Led geospatial machine-learning pipelines for roof detection, super-resolution, feature extraction, and terrain classification.

    AirflowPyTorchHorovodAWS LambdaGIS
    • • Led a metal roof-detection pipeline on AWS EC2, achieving average IoU of 0.698 with model rollback and update workflows.
    • • Orchestrated Landsat super-resolution with Airflow DAGs, PyTorch UDFs, and Horovod-enabled training.
    • • Built CI/CD-driven feature extraction and multi-label terrain classification systems with AP 0.8699 and building-wise IoU 0.78464.
  10. Research Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

    Research Engineer

    Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    Delhi, India • Full-Time

    Developed cybersecurity learning games, blockchain-training systems, and user-feedback pipelines for an IIT Delhi research lab.

    UnityGraphQLReactSeq2SeqFirebase
    • • Built Unity WebGL applications and sequence-to-sequence chatbot flows for blockchain and cyber-threat prevention education.
    • • Implemented feedback-clustering algorithms with Firebase and REST APIs, improving accuracy to 76.32%.
    • • Presented interaction-design recommendations that increased average user interactivity by 27%.
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  11. Experience Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

    Full Stack Engineer

    UVA Institute

    Delhi, India • Full-Time

    Migrated an e-learning platform, integrated low-latency streaming, and automated analytics for course delivery and sales insights.

    ReactWebRTCFFMPEGKafkaSelenium
    • • Migrated the website from Angular to React and integrated RTMP, WebRTC, and online exam/video-class workflows.
    • • Added FFMPEG-based lecture capture, Kafka video pipelines, and automated publishing flows that reduced latency by 27%.
    • • Used Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and EDA on course/review data to support analysis that contributed to 15% revenue growth.
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  12. Education Aug 2015 - May 2019

    Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

    Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

    Delhi, India • Undergraduate Study

    Completed undergraduate study in computer science and engineering with a strong systems and machine-learning foundation.

    Operating SystemsComputer NetworksMachine LearningData MiningC++
    • • Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.
    • • Rank: 6.
    • • Courses: Operating Systems, Compiler Design, Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning (Python), Discrete Mathematics, and C++.
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  13. Experience Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

    Data Science Intern

    Delhi e-Governance Society

    Delhi, India • Internship

    Worked on analytics, visualization, and forecasting systems for public-sector e-services.

    SQLASP.NETForecastingData Visualization
    • • Collaborated with the National Informatics Centre on an auto-scaled analytics platform for 478 e-services.
    • • Extracted and modeled SQL data to build analytical visualization interfaces for service operations.
    • • Deployed a transactions predictor and visualization tool with 81.74% accuracy using ASP.NET.