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title: "Bharath Raj - AI Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Bharath Raj, Building AI for Education @ Lytmus AI based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, livekit, and huggingface. Explore public work links including github."
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# Bharath Raj on Tal

## Headline

Building AI for Education @ Lytmus AI

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

livekit

huggingface

llama\.cpp

vLLM

Weaviate

## Work experience

AI Engineer at Lytmus, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 y, Bengaluru, •Architected and shipped real\-time voice\-first AI tutor features, building a real\-time voice agent orchestration layer for audio\+visual tutoring and mentorship, resulting in 180k\+ minutes of engagement\. • Built and maintained video processing pipelines to facilitate AI doubt solving mid\-lectures, providing real\-time contextual conversations at any point in the video with sub\-2s latency\. • Designed context\-engineering workflows for AI tutors, integrating structured teacher knowledge, retrieval, and conversation evaluation pipelines to facilitate personable response quality\. • Conducted LLM fine\-tuning and R&D experiments across vision and pedagogical LLMs, focusing on AI adapted to Indian educational setting\. • Led end\-to\-end AI initiatives from prototyping to production, supporting the product’s growth to 20K\+ users\.

Machine Learning Engineer at Stealth, Jul 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, • Built foundational technology fine\-tuning speech LLMs & voice models on Indian languages to power voice agents with natural TTS and ASR systems\. • Led development of SaaS products offering AI analytics, TTS services, voice agents, etc built on in\-house technology for B2B\. • Built specialized and scalable TTS systems for BFSI industries for high\-throughput production use cases\.

Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Stealth, Jan 2024 \- Jul 2024 · 7 mos, Kerala, India, \- Worked on building robust conversational AI systems for Indian languages leveraging open\-source LLMs, ASR, TTS and Language Modelling frameworks on EC2 machines and Azure VMs\. \- Deployed chat applications powered by open\-source LLMs such as Llama\-3 70b and Mixtral 8x22b using Langchain & LlamaIndex for conversational memory, code generation & interpretation\. \- Prepared, pre\-processed/cleaned large\-scale ASR and TTS Datasets of Indian Languages using innovative methods\. \- Trained, tested and deployed competitive ASR models using frameworks such as NVIDIA NeMo and K2\-FSA Icefall as well as TTS models using StyleTTS2, MatchaTTS, Pflow, VITS and Piper, vocoders using VOCOS, HiFiGAN, etc\. \- Worked with relatively new architectures such as Conformer\-CTC/RNNT, Zipformer\-CTC/RNNT, Transformers, etc to achieve competitive performance\.

Machine Learning Research Intern at Irish Centre for High\-End Computing ICHEC, Jan 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 6 mos, Galway, County Galway, Ireland, \- Conducted research studying and fine\-tuning pre\-trained CNNs for photovoltaic detection\. \- Compiled, prepared and pre\-processed datasets for photovoltaic semantic segmentation and object detection\. \- Trained, tested and evaluated numerous CNN models on HPC clusters for geospatial machine learning research\. \- Presented "Investigating the viability of convolutional neural networks for photovoltaic detection using remote\-sensing images" paper at InGARSS 2023\.

Machine Learning Intern at Across The Globe \(ATG\), Nov 2022 \- Jan 2023 · 3 mos, Remote, Built ML models for sentiment analysis of customer reviews\. Provided marketing leads through web scraping using Selenium\. Trained and used automatic speech recognition models for call recordings analysis for marketing insights\.

## Education

BTech, AI&ML, Jain University Bangalore

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/bharathraj\-v

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