Aravind Pai

Aravind Pai

+•• ••••• •••••••••••@•••••.com

7 yrs

  • Bangalore
  • Open to Bangalore · Hyderabad · Gurgaon
  • Hybrid

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Skills

Claimed

AI Tool Knowledge IngestionWork EthicTaking OwnershipGuidanceRemote Team ManagementDelegation and Work AllocationTeamworkProblem SolvingStrategic PlanningModel Metric Selection & InterpretationTensorRT UsageData Tagging

Proof of Experience

Senior Data Scientist Generative AI R&D Technical Lead

Caterpillar · Apr 2024 – Aug 2026

  • Led development of two flagship Generative AI products - Cat AI Assistant and In-Cab Assistant - owning architecture, fine-tuning small language models, prompt optimization, evaluation and production deployment.
  • Increased parts sales conversion by 30% using Cat AI Assistant, a unified conversational interface serving millions of customers and dealers across Caterpillar applications, using a LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent architecture.
  • Enhanced operator productivity by 85% with In-Cab Assistant, a real-time voice assistant deployed on NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge hardware, serving fine-tuned LFM 350M Small Language model via vLLM for complex tool-calling and multi-turn dialogue at ~30 ms inference latency.
  • Addressed the ~10% of machine-down failures caused by delayed fault-code diagnoses by building CMA AI Recommendations, a RAG pipeline to auto generate fault-code diagnoses and recommended steps in real time.
  • Mentored data scientists and partnered with product and engineering teams to move prototypes into production-grade, monitored services.
Analytics Vidhya

Senior Data Scientist

Analytics Vidhya · May 2021 – Mar 2024

  • Doubled lead generation (2x) and boosted revenue by 30% with DHSGPT, a RAG solution for resolving queries of DataHack Summit Conference using an auto-merging retriever and hybrid search that reached 98% context and answer relevancy.
  • Lifted sales revenue by 2x for AI/ML Blackbelt program with lead quality engine, a machine-learning classifier lifting its selection performance through advanced feature engineering and ensemble learning techniques.
  • Delivered a 50% improvement in pages per session on the blog platform via high performant recommendation engine surfacing most relevant articles with cross encoders, evaluated with recall@k and precision@k.
  • Generated $100K+ in B2B revenue by driving end-to-end client engagements for enterprise partners-including American Express, WNS, and Sevilla FC-delivering custom Data Science Hackathons on the DataHack platform

Data Scientist

Spektacom · Jul 2020 – Apr 2021

  • As a Founding Engineer, I developed an end-to-end computer-vision pipeline detecting front-foot no-balls in cricket, by finetuning the keypoint detection model, analysing live camera streams for real-time detection on RTX 3070 hardware.
Analytics Vidhya

Data Science Intern

Analytics Vidhya · Dec 2019 – Jun 2020

  • 1.Lead contributor to the Natural Language Processing using Deep Learning program.
  • 2.Contributed to various technical articles in the domain of Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and Computer Vision.
Analytics Vidhya

Data Science Intern - Summer

Analytics Vidhya · May 2019 – Jul 2019

Probyto

Data Science Intern

Probyto · Jun 2018 – Nov 2018

  • 1.
  • Developed a system for capturing the Adverse Drug Reactions from the user comments via Natural Language Processing techniques.
  • 2.
  • Designed and built a streaming data pipeline to collect, transform, and explore the data using Amazon Web Services.

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Proof of Education

M.Sc., Data Science

PSG College of Technology · 2019 — 2021

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