Karthik Kaiplody
AI Engineer
Passionate 𝐀𝐈/𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 6+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 of working experience across 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡. I focus on creating data-driven solutions by developing scalable ML systems and deploying models into production environments. Believer of "Being passionately curious."
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into production, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝟐𝟓%.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for AI products, 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝟓𝟎%.
- Implemented MLOps best practices to successfully deploy transformer-based models to production.
- Redesigned and implemented scalable Micro-Service Architecture using AWS Lambda for Serverless operations.
Experience
AI Engineer | CCC Intelligent Solutions, Chicago
Designed and built a CI/CD pipeline for AI products. Worked on AWS migration of machine learning models and packages.
Research Assistant | Scalable Computing Software Lab
Creating onboarding tool for the nutritional data. Worked on designing the end to end machine learning pipeline.
Machine Learning Engineer - III | Acuity Knowledge Partners Ltd
AI & ML practitioner. Contributing with NLP tasks for company's product.
Senior Engineer, ER&D | Mindtree Ltd
AI & ML practitioner. Contributing with NLP tasks for company's product.
Engineer, ER&D | Mindtree Ltd
Contributed towards automating and building AI tools for clients and thus increasing the productivity.
Projects
Machine Learning API
Flask API For Bank Note Authentication Prediction
The objective of the project is to identify whether the given bank note with the selected features are authentic or not. A binary classification problem.
MLFlow pipeline
Tracking and Serving the ML models using MLFlow
Tracking and Serving the ML models using MLFlow. Implements ElasticNet Model for Regression.
Skills
Languages & Tools
Core Competencies
- Data Pipeline Development
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- NLP & NLU
- Deep Learning
- API Integration & Development
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Masters in Data Science
Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore
PGD - Machine Learning and AI
2020 - 2021
GM Institute of Technology - VTU
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
2012 - 2016
Certificates
- Creating Multi Task Models With Keras (Coursera)
- AWS S3 Basics (Coursera)
- Fine Tune BERT for Text Classification with TensorFlow (Coursera)
- Transfer Learning for NLP with TensorFlow Hub (Coursera)
- Using Databases with Python (Coursera)
- Introduction to Data Science in Python (Coursera)
- Data Structures (Coursera)
- Django 2.2 & Python | The Ultimate Web Development Bootcamp (Udemy)
- Build a Python REST API with the Django Rest Framework (Udemy)
Achievements
- Finished top 29% of the leaderboard, Kaggle Competition, TPS - Jan 2021
- Ranked 110th out of 3363 participants, Hacker Earth Deep Learning Challenge
- Awarded 'Project of the Year-2016' from KSCST & IISc, Bangalore