Headline

Published ML Engineer and Researcher | Ex-Microsoft & Sony. Ex-Data Scientist @ PwC | Python, PyTorch, LLM Inference, CUDA | Maintainer of KVBoost

About

fast LLM infra, Machine Learning and agentic workflows My website:https://pythongiant.github.io/ My email: srihari.unnikrishnan@gmail.com My Github: https://github.com/pythongiant

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

Work experience

Lead AI Engineer at Vault22, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, - Building the Shariah compliance manager that learned extraction patterns from 10-K filings for automated financial screening and compliance workflows. - Maintaining the tara chatbot serving an estimated ~300K daily active users, focusing on LLM and agentic orchestration.

AI Engineer at Freelance, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, Remote, - AI, RAG and LLM Research in 8 countries and 5 continents - Managed to pay college fees through this - Created AI Pipelines and products for more than 5M+ Users and SOTA performance

Researcher at Microsoft, Jul 2025 - Dec 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - LLM research and AI system design for the AIOps Team at Microsoft - Focusing on areas like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), explainable prediction architectures, and memory-augmented LLM workflows. - Developed ResearchMatch: A tool that helps research teams hire better candidates using agentic LLM workflows.

Quantitative Researcher & Developer at 2Cents Capital, Apr 2025 - Jun 2025 · 3 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, - Working for Dubai based hedge fund, 2cents capital in the Quant Development and Quant Research Divisions. - Working on building the team, expanding distribution and also enabling AI/ML automation and processes across the organisation.

Data Scientist at Sony Research India, Jul 2024 - Jan 2025 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Research Scientist and AI engineer and was awarded the best research team. - Doing Big Data Analytics for the Sony LIV platform. - Researched and Developed Dashboards to analyze the churn of customers from the Sony LIV platform - Working on heavily imbalanced customer churn data. Developed a Machine Learning pipeline for the same and achieved an f1 score of 0.78

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science with Spec. in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Vellore Institute of Technology

Apeejay Stya Education (Svran Foundation)

Public links

github: https://github.com/pythongiant