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Senior ML Engineer @ Scrut | LLM & Agentic Systems, RAG, Evals | Building production AI on frontier models

About

Senior ML Engineer with 7+ years of experience building and deploying production AI systems across enterprise SaaS, recommendation systems, and Generative AI applications. I am a founding member of the ML team at Scrut Automation, where I own the end-to-end LLM stack, including agentic copilots, RAG systems, evaluation frameworks, and production deployment. My expertise spans the full AI lifecycle—from problem definition, evaluation design, and model selection through to deployment, observability, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement. I have a proven track record of translating ambiguous business problems into scalable AI solutions that improve operational efficiency, user engagement, and decision-making. My core focus areas include LLMs, agentic workflows, evaluation systems, recommendation engines, and production ML infrastructure.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior ML Engineer (Founding ML Team Member) at Scrut Automation, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • As a founding member of the ML team at Scrut Automation, I spearheaded the development of an end-to-end LLM platform for compliance automation. • Designed and launched an agentic Copilot for InfoSec analysts, achieving a 72% reduction in research effort. • Developed a policy and evidence gap-analysis system, decreasing manual review effort by 65%. • Engineered a schema-driven extraction pipeline, cutting token costs by 95% while maintaining high accuracy.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Rooter.gg, Mar 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Delhi, India, • Led the machine learning team at Rooter.gg, developing a robust recommendation platform from the ground up. • Shipped recommendation models to 15% of users, resulting in a 56% increase in time spent on the app. • Managed the entire recommendation lifecycle, including candidate generation, ranking, and continuous optimization. • Partnered with product and engineering teams to define success metrics and translate user-behavior insights into measurable engagement improvements.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at VerSe Innovation, Oct 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Rebuilt a next-generation recommendation engine, enhancing item scoring and collaborative filtering systems, resulting in a 22% increase in engagement. • Developed and deployed multilingual comment moderation models, improving moderation coverage by 76% and reducing manual review efforts. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance recommendation quality and platform safety through machine-learning-driven decision systems.

Senior Data Scientist at ACTO, Aug 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Technical Consultant at ValueLabs, Aug 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Developed a production knowledge-base assistant, enhancing information retrieval efficiency by 65%. • Served as the primary data scientist for ACTO, leading reporting and predictive modeling initiatives. • Delivered innovative machine-learning solutions in NLP, computer vision, and AR-assisted workflows, collaborating closely with clients.

Data Scientist at ValueLabs, Jul 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Master's degree, Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore