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title: "Srihari Unnikrishnan - Lead AI Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Srihari Unnikrishnan, Published ML Engineer and Researcher | Ex-Microsoft & Sony. Ex-Data Scientist @ PwC | Python, PyTorch, LLM Inference, CUDA | Maintainer of KVBoost based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Srihari Unnikrishnan on Tal

## 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

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