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title: "Nishant Kumar - AI/ML Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Nishant Kumar, AI @ Instabase | prev - MasterCard, Microsoft | IIT BHU based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Nishant Kumar on Tal

## Headline

AI @ Instabase \| prev \- MasterCard, Microsoft \| IIT BHU

## About

\*\*Key Skills:\*\* Languages: Python, C\+\+, TypeScript, JavaScript ML Frameworks: PyTorch, OpenCV, Transformers, CNNs Generative AI & LLM Ops: Prompt Engineering, Chain\-of\-Thought, RAG, Agents, LangChain, Langfuse, MCP, LLM fine\-tuning, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Azure, Llama Embeddings / Vector DBs: ChromaDB Computer Vision: OCR, document extraction, OpenCV, CNNs Data & Infra: FastAPI, Flask, Next\.js, Streamlit, MongoDB, AWS, GCP, Azure MLOps: LLM monitoring, automated evals, prompt versioning, LLM benchmarking Deep & RL: SAC, DQN, Rainbow, multi\-agent RL, federated RL, Inverse RL Dev Tools: Git, Linux/Unix \*\*Interests:\*\* • Agentic LLMs, multi\-agent systems, RAG • Document AI, OCR, provenance, LLM evaluation • Healthcare AI, conversational agents • Reinforcement Learning, adversarial ML • GenAI productization, MLOps \*\*Responsibilities & Achievements:\*\* LLM & GenAI Pipeline • Multi\-agent LLM systems, RAG, conversational memory, document extraction, OCR grounding, LLM benchmarking, Mixture\-of\-Experts Applied ML & RL • Adversarial ML, gradient\-free attacks, SAC, Rainbow DQN, multi\-agent RL, federated RL Safety, Eval & MLOps • LLM evaluation, prompt versioning, automated evals, provenance, sequence evaluation Systems • C\+\+, multithreading, cache optimization, Vowpal Wabbit Leadership • Mentorship, workshops, hiring, architecture discussions

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

hugging face

## Work experience

AI/ML Engineer at Instabase, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Benchmarking and improving the document intelligence engine of AIHub at Instabase\.

Founding AI Engineer at CodyMD, May 2024 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Oregon, United States, Building the foundation of an AI doctor, with a team of doctors and engineers\. Scaled to more than 1M users

Data Scientist Level 2 at Mastercard AI Garage, Mar 2024 \- Apr 2024 · 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Data Scientist Level 1 at Mastercard AI Garage, Jul 2022 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hybrid, Worked on fraud detection in transactions\.

Google AI Research Week Scholar 2022 \(Computer Vision Track\) at Google, Feb 2022 \- Feb 2022 · 1 mo, Among the 150 select candidates from India and Singapore to attend and participate in the 4\-day AI symposium by Google Research

Joint Secretary at Club of Programmers, IIT BHU, Aug 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Organized fests, workshops, talks, hackathons to promote the coding culture at our university\.

## Education

BTech \- Bachelor of Technology, Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology \(Banaras Hindu University\), Varanasi

ICSE, Computer Science, Carmel junior college

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/nishantkr18

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