Résumé

As of 24th April 2024

Raj Patil | contact@rajpatil.dev

Education

B.Tech: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2018-2022)

All India Rank (JEE Advance 2018) - 658

- Major (2018-2022) : Computer Science and Engineering  : 9.26/10
- Minor (2020-2022) : Artificial Intelligence           : 9.50/10

Technical Skills

Languages:

- Primary           : Python, Golang, Mojo
- Lisps & Schemes   : Common-Lisp, E-lisp, Hy, Racket
- Non-Trivial Exp   : C, C++,  Prolog, Eiffel, Vimscript
- Trivial Exp       : Haskell, Rust, Lua, Java, Javascript

Current Envs:
 1. Personal  : Debian, I3WM, Emacs
 2. Work      : Multiple headless Linuces , Tmux, Neovim
                (Debian & red hat family, Qubes OS)

Tools and Frameworks:

 - Generic
	- Cloud Compute         : AWS (EC2, S3), Paperspace, GCP
	- Version Control       : git, git-lfs
	- Containerization      : docker
	- Orchestration         : kubernetes
	- Virtualization        : qemu, KVM, virtual box
	- CI/CD                 : Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins

 - AI
	- DL                     : Pytorch, spaCy, nltk, fastai, hugging-face
	- ML                     : Scikit-learn, LightGBM, XGBoost
	- MLOps                  : MLFlow
	- Monitoring             : Visdom, Tensorboard
	- Data Wrangling         : Pandas, Xarray
	- Scientific Computing   : Numpy, Scipy
	- Dashboards             : Streamlit, Gradio
	- Visualization          : Matplotlib, Seaborn

 - Databases
	- Relational             : PostGres, SQLite
	- NoSQL                  : MongoDB, Redis
	- Graph                  : Neo4j
	- Multi-model            : SurrealDB

 - Web
	- SSGs                   : Hugo, Jekyll, Quarto, Org-export
	- Hypermedia             : HTML, CSS, HTMX
	- ReST                   : FastAPI
 
 - Domain Specific
	- Lexers,Parsers        : Lark, yacc, lex
	- Quantum Computing     : Qiskit
	- Convex Optimization   : CVXPy
	- Quantum Computing     : Qiskit
	- CLI                   : regex, sed, awk, grep
	- Text-Editing          : Emacs, Vi
	- Markup                : markdown, latex, org files
	- Visualization         : mermaid.js
	- Testing               : Selenium

Experience

ESDS Software Solutions : Principal Engineer

March 2024 - Present

exploring the vast cloud computing problem space as a whole, rather than just the artificial intelligence perspective as in my previous role.
overseeing interdisciplinary research and development across departments, with the opportunity to work in relatively larger and technically varied teams.

ESDS Software Solutions : AI Research Engineer

Nov 2022 - March 2024

developed a comprehensive sentiment analysis portal from the ground up, focusing on customer satisfaction within the ticketing portal.
- now crucial within the organization, used to quantify customer satisfaction and identify areas of improvement with regards to customer experience.
headed AI integration across diverse departments, identifying and implementing multi-model pipelines (natural language processing, computer vision and traditional machine learning solutions)
served multiple client facing AI-related requests, most promiment of which resulted in the School Education and Sports Department of Maharashtra winning a Guinness World Record, for which ESDS was the technical facilitator.
Mentored individuals across domains and began honing my managerial/leadership aptitude.

Personal Sabbatical

Aug 2022 - Nov 2022

deliberate decision to take a hiatus to address health concerns.
- diagnosed with severe deficiencies in several micronutrients and minerals.
consumed several epistemological works to further my personal pursuits.

Goldman Sachs: Analyst

July 2022 - Aug 2022

briefly worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, gaining valuable exposure to the financial industry.
Although a shorter engagement, had the opportunity to gain insights into the organization and its operations.

IIT Hyderabad | KLA Tencor: Research Assistant

Aug 2021 - May 2022

Collaborated with Prof. Vineeth N.B. on research to develop a generic transferability score for inter-domain transfer-learning tasks.
Focused on computer vision applications within chip technologies.
Leveraged knowledge in Domain Adaptation (Transfer Learning) to address relevant challenges.

Goldman Sachs: Summer Analyst

June 2021 - July 2021

worked towards enhancing (unsupervised) clustering interpretability.
developed a versatile multidimensional hyperparameter grid search framework to automate model optimization and fine-tuning.

CVPR 2021 Workshop paper | AUTONUE 2021 : Research Assistant

helped organize a domain adaptation challenge for semantic segmentation, contributing to a workshop paper.
Guided and mentored by Prof. Vineeth N.B. and Prof. C.V. Jawahar

Projects

project	desc.	tools and skills
Guinness world Record : Deduplication, Anomaly Detection, Tampering Detection	was responsible for filtering the collected images (scale of 1.4e6) (checkout blog link for more context)	signed an NDA
Quantum Error Correction Codes	created a framework to test efficacy of qubit allocation strategies for noise-resistant quantum computation	Qiskit
Tic-Tac-Toe Reinforcement Learning	tested out RL algorithms with random and heuristics based agents	Pytorch
Option Pricing via Monte Carlo Simulations	delved into monte carlo option pricers, while comparing results with conventional stochastic calculus models (Black Scholes)	Python, Stochatic Calculus
Secure Multiparty Computation (for Deep Learning)	Survey on how cryptographic techniques are used to maintain secrecy during multiparty computation (neural networks in this case)	—
WDGAF(We Do Give a Figure)	Created plotting DSL using principals of compilers and published it to pip	python, lark, package publishing
Relational Databases and Data Hygeine	Executed complex relational database queries on the imdb movie database; implemented scraping scripts to fetch relevant data	PostGres, SQL, python, shell scripting
Optimizing scheduling algorithms	researched into tweaks to optimize the scheduling algorithms BOCC, BTO, MVTO	—
Musical Chairs: inter-process coms	Simulating a game of musical chairs using modern concurrency constructs from C++11 onwards	C++, Make
Chat Room App	created a command line chat room app using principles of socket programming	computer networks, python
Custom Deep Learning Framework	created a deep learning library from scratch	Pytorch, numpy, git
3D-printed pin ball machine	designed the individual components from scratch in CAD and assembled the same (star wars themed - had a millenium falcon) into a functional pin ball setup	SolidEdge, CAD, 3d-printing

Extracurricular

Teaching Assistance

Prof. Vineeth N.B. - CS5590 : Foundations of Machine Learning
Prof Srijith P.K. - AI1100 : Intro to Artificial Intelligence

FitSoc 2021-2022

Established a fitness community dedicated to supporting college students in balancing their fitness and academic pursuits through a hybrid athleticism approach.
Organically bootstrapped and grew the community, currently comprising over 200 active members.

Founding Core Member Epoch (The ML club of IIT Hyderabad) - 2019

Conducted the inaugural session of the club.
The session centered on exploratory data analysis utilizing key tools and libraries, including Pandas, NumPy, SciPy and matplotlib.

National Service Scheme

participated in several cleanliness and plantation drives during my time at IIT-Hyderabad
created several social awareness posters regarding various societal issues