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title: "Sindhu Pawar - Machine Learning Engineer || in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sindhu Pawar, MLE @ LevelAI | OLA Krutrim | IIT Bombay ’22 CSE based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and gemini."
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# Sindhu Pawar on Tal

## Headline

MLE @ LevelAI \| OLA Krutrim \| IIT Bombay ’22 CSE

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

## Work experience

Machine Learning Engineer \|\| at Uber, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Machine Learning Engineer at Level AI, Jun 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Built an end to end voice agent from scratch using opensource LLM and OpenAI Streaming TTS \* Leading end\-to\-end deployment of real\-time ASR using Triton Inference Server and conformer ASR model optimizing inference speed by 10x for 300 concurrent clients and achieved 4x higher throughput \* Developed a BERT\-based punctuation model for partial ASR outputs with 95% accuracy

Founding Data Scientist at Krutrim, Jun 2022 \- May 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Worked on DPO\(Direct Preference Optimization\) in LLMs for solving neutrality, safety and biasness in responses\. Successfully trained a 7B parameter model using DPO and LoRA technique \* Optimized LLM training using ZeRO Stage 2/3, reducing training time significantly upto 4x on distributed machine \* Improved voice\-cloning in Text\-to\-speech\(TTS\) models for indian languages and built a voice assistant model for a chatbot \* Developed a real\-time multilingual live stream converter \(5 Indian languages\) with synchronized lip\-sync with a 10\-minute lag along with voice cloning \(dubbing of video and audio\) \* Voice Acivity Detection \(VAD\) Implemented a 1d cnn for VAD with an optimal decoding strategy \* Ranker Algorithm \(maps\) Implemented an xgboost ranker algorithm for the search recommendations in Ola Maps \* Built a Real Time Voice Command Detection bot to identify commands to operate the scooter os

Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jan 2022 \- May 2022 · 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, \* Worked on knowledge distillation for the fine grain classification of bird images with RESET\-50 \(student\) and RESNET\-158 \(teacher\) based on the difference in the distribution of heatmaps and divergence between logits

Research Intern at University College Cork, May 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 3 mos, Cork, County Cork, Ireland, \* Worked on classification of the tissue based on the presence of cancer or adenoma or other tumour with spectral information

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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