Senior machine learning engineer

Turning frontier AI research into systems that ship.

Technical lead with 5+ years of experience building production-grade computer vision, generative AI and MLOps solutions — from first experiment to measurable impact.

The short version.

Research-minded. Delivery-focused. Always curious.

I’m a Senior ML Engineer and Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India. I bridge model research and production engineering, with a focus on making ambitious AI useful, reliable and ready for the real world.

FocusDiffusion models, vision-language models, LLMs, computer vision and ML system design
ApproachSmall experiments, rigorous measurement, clean interfaces and thoughtful teams
LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · German (A1)

Where I’ve made an impact.

Five years turning complex ML problems into dependable products.

Oct 2024 — nowBengaluru · Sindelfingen

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
  • Pioneered a synthetic data and GenAI solution for computer vision training, reducing acquisition and annotation costs by 95%.
  • Led diffusion-model pipelines for inpainting, stylization and domain adaptation, increasing interior scene segmentation mIoU by 30% without annotated segmentation data.
  • Fine-tuned CLIP ViT-B/32 with LoRA, improving Recall@10 by 15% while updating only 3% of model parameters.
  • Orchestrated five concurrent ML projects and led a team of four engineers; served onsite in Germany for four months across production deployments.

Stack: Diffusion Models · GenAI · PyTorch · Agile · System Design · Team Leadership

Aug 2021 — Sep 2024Bengaluru

Machine Learning Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
  • Developed a graph convolutional network for human stature and 3D head-position estimation.
  • Optimized GPU data augmentations, cutting training time by 25% and improving human pose performance by 5%.
  • Built an uncertainty-weighted multi-task loss, improving PCK@50 by 12% and mIoU by 7%.
  • Worked on PTQ and QAT for low-latency edge deployment.

Stack: Machine Learning · Graphs · Computer Vision · Quantization · GCP

Mar 2020 — Aug 2020Hokkaido, Japan

Artificial Intelligence Research Intern

AWL Inc

Built a semi-supervised MixMatch pipeline for image classification, increasing F1 score by 7% by learning from unannotated data.

Dec 2019 — Jan 2020Toronto, Canada

Data Science Research Intern

PredictivEye Inc

Developed a hybrid recommendation engine combining collaborative filtering and content similarity with contrastive user and item embeddings.

Problems worth solving.

A snapshot of the systems and research themes I keep coming back to.

01GEN / CV

Synthetic data for safer cars

Diffusion-powered inpainting, stylization and domain adaptation pipelines that create useful training data without manual segmentation labels.

→ 95% lower data costs
02VLM / PEFT

Efficient multimodal retrieval

CLIP-ViT-B/32 fine-tuning with LoRA adapters and curated multimodal datasets for better image-text retrieval.

→ +15% Recall@10
03GRAPH / 3D

Human geometry from vision

Graph convolutional networks and uncertainty-aware multi-task learning for stature, keypoint and head-position estimation.

→ edge-ready inference
04RESEARCH

Learning with less data

Semi-supervised learning and contrastive representations that help models extract more signal from imperfect, unannotated datasets.

→ better data efficiency

The things I use.

Tools are contextual. Strong fundamentals travel.

Frameworks & libraries

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Lightning · Lit-Serve · Python · JAX

AI & technologies

VLMs · LLMs · Diffusion Models · GenAI · LoRA · RAG · Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Quantization · Transformers · PEFT

Platforms & practice

Git · Docker · Kubernetes · GCP · MLOps · Agile · Jira · Confluence · GitHub · Flyte

How I work

Team Leadership · Product Ownership · Problem Solving · Decision Making · Communication

Built on strong fundamentals.

Engineering depth, research habits and a bias for action.

M.Tech · Industrial and Systems Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · Machine Learning, Deep Learning · 2020—2021

B.Tech · Industrial and Systems Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · 2016—2020

Technical member, Autonomous Ground Vehicle Research Group

  • High Impact Innovation Award — top 10 innovations at Mercedes-Benz R&D India
  • Two-time Silver Star Award winner for performance in the AI Algorithms team
  • Innovation and Implemented Patent Award for six AI and computer vision patent filings
  • Runner-up, IGVC Oakland University, Michigan

Still solving for fun.

Competitive programming keeps the problem-solving muscles sharp.

Have a hard problem? Let’s make it tractable.

I’m always happy to talk about applied AI, strong engineering teams, research that ships, or the next interesting problem.