About

AI Lead with 4.5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML and GenAI systems in financial services. I specialize in translating complex business problems into scalable AI solutions, with hands-on expertise across LLMs, RAG pipelines, voice AI, and predictive modeling. Currently leading end-to-end AI initiatives—from architecture and model development to deployment—driving measurable business impact including multi-million value creation, improved customer experience, and operational efficiency. Experienced in working with global stakeholders and building AI systems on Azure and AWS. Passionate about solving real-world problems using data, and pushing the boundaries of applied AI in production environments.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

codex

cursor

opencode

Work experience

Global AI Engineering Lead at Pepper Advantage, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, As a Global AI Engineering Lead, the role involves driving AI strategy, leading the development and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions, and overseeing global engineering teams. Responsibilities include optimizing AI systems, ensuring scalability, collaborating cross-functionally to solve complex business problems, and aligning AI initiatives with organizational goals to deliver impactful results.

Machine Learning Engineer at Pepper Advantage, May 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Machine Learning Engineer at Pepper Advantage, Oct 2021 - May 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Implementation of web based automation for manual task which aiming in 80% workload reduction. Predictive modelling for credit card fraud detection aiming to reduce credit card frauds by about 70%.

Machine Learning Intern at Rieom AI Pvt Ltd, Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 · 4 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Managed to get a better working model on a historical dataset of loan risk prediction where I implemented a better functioning hyper-parameter tuning random forest model which resulted in 30% more accuracy than the existing model for Tata Motors Finanace Limited(TMFL).

Data Analyst Intern at The Sparks Foundation, Mar 2021 - Apr 2021 · 2 mos, Worked on a terrorism data where i performed data cleaning, data processing and exploratory data analysis where data visualization was heavily focused with the help of bar graphs, pie charts and lineplots. This resulted in analyzing most scariest countries across the world suffering from terrorism.

Wesite Owner and Administrator at Techups.us, Sep 2017 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, This was my own website with my one co founder where we delivered high quality tech content in the US market.

Intern Author at Technoclever, Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos, Pune, Contributed to 1000% more user engagement delivering high quality content.

Education

Master's degree, AI and ML, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Genba Sopanrao Moze College Of Engineering

Public links

github: https://github.com/abhinav-mane