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title: "Akash Kirodiwal - AI Engineer I in Darjeeling | Tal"
description: "Meet Akash Kirodiwal, AI Engineer | Agentic AI, RAG & Voice AI | Philips | IIT Kharagpur based in Darjeeling. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and hugging face."
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# Akash Kirodiwal on Tal

## Headline

AI Engineer \| Agentic AI, RAG & Voice AI \| Philips \| IIT Kharagpur

## About

AI Engineer with 5\+ years of hands\-on experience in machine learning and deep learning\. I currently work in the Data & AI R&D team at Philips, building solutions with LLMs and multi\-agent systems\. Earlier, at LG, I built voice and speech AI that runs efficiently on edge devices in real time\. An IIT Kharagpur M\.Tech graduate with two peer\-reviewed publications in medical AI, I enjoy solving complex problems and exploring what's next in AI\.

## Location

Darjeeling

## AI stack

claude code

codex

hugging face

langgraph

Blackbox AI

Firecrawl

## Work experience

AI Engineer I at Philips, Nov 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Philips, I work on applied AI for R&D, building Agentic RAG systems and Deep Agents, and using AI/ML techniques to automate support workflows and resolve consumer issues faster\.

Research Engineer at LG Soft India, Nov 2022 \- Oct 2025 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built speech and voice AI solutions for LG smart appliances, deploying a Speech Language Understanding model with 97\.7% accuracy in a compact 3\.78 MB TFLite model for real\-time edge inference\. Designed a wake\-word detection model with ultra\-low false triggers and reliable performance in noisy environments\. Automated dataset creation using Whisper and Mistral 7B, reducing annotation effort by 90%\. Developed an emotion\-aware voice interaction pipeline for LG ThinQ ON devices\.

Senior Software Engineer at LTI \- Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Oct 2021 \- Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built an intelligent runbook recommendation system for enterprise IT support, using an NLP pipeline and an XGBoost classifier with 88\.7% accuracy\. Reduced incident resolution time by 40% and deployed the solution as a Django web application, giving support engineers automated script recommendations and improving first\-call resolution rates\.

Post Graduate Engineer Trainee at LTI \- Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Jul 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 4 mos

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Jul 2020 \- Apr 2021 · 10 mos, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Instrumentation & Signal Processing, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electrical Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal \(MAKAUT, WB\)

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