Darshil Kapadia / AI EngineerOpen to conversations

10+ years at IBM India, M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur. I architect end-to-end AI solutions for global enterprises — MLOps, model train & fine-tune, and orchestrating AI agents at enterprise scale, secured under a responsible-AI framework, on AWS and Azure.

10 yrs
At IBM India
M.Tech
IIT Kharagpur
7+
Enterprise clients
CV · NLP · Agents
Full AI stack
01 — About

A full-stack AI engineer, data to deployment.

My work spans the full stack of applied AI — classical ML and deep learning, computer vision and OCR, NLP, and Generative AI with RAG and AI agents. I've taken these to production for global enterprises — PepsiCo, Bacardi, Dow Chemicals, JSW, the FAA, NedBank, and Iffco-Tokio — owning the lifecycle end to end: data pipelines, training and fine-tuning, MLOps, AI evaluations, and responsible-AI guardrails, deployed on AWS and Azure.

Generative AI
LangGraphLangChainOpenAI Agents SDKRAGGraphRAGRLHFPEFT / LoRA / QLoRAFine-tuningMulti-Agent SystemsPrompt EngineeringDSPyVector DBAutomated Prompt Generation

Decoder-only transformers trained on next-token prediction. State of the art for open-ended generation, reasoning, and instruction following.

OpenAI ModelsClaudeLLaMA 3.3LLaMA 3.1

Bidirectional transformers that produce rich contextual embeddings. Best suited for classification, NER, and semantic similarity.

BERTRoBERTaDistilBERT

Seq2seq architecture mapping input sequences to output sequences. Used for summarisation, translation, and question answering.

T5BARTmT5

Generative models that learn to reverse a noise process. State of the art for high-fidelity image and media synthesis.

Stable DiffusionDALL-EImagen
ML & Deep Learning
TensorFlowPyTorchTransfer LearningComputer VisionMLflow

Region-based and anchor-free detectors for localising and classifying objects in images. Applied in insurance claim assessment and industrial inspection.

YOLOR-CNNFaster R-CNNMask R-CNN

Hierarchical spatial feature extractors. Backbone of most computer vision pipelines for classification and representation learning.

CNNResNetVGGEfficientNet

Recurrent architectures that model temporal and sequential dependencies. Applied in OCR, time-series analysis, and sequence labelling.

RNNLSTMCRNNGRU

Attention-based architecture that unified NLP and vision. Trained via self-supervised objectives before task-specific fine-tuning.

Self-Supervised LearningMasked LMContrastive LearningMulti-Head AttentionViTCLIP

Adversarial generator–discriminator framework for producing realistic synthetic data and high-quality image generation.

GANDCGANStyleGANCycleGAN

Message-passing networks that learn on graph-structured data — knowledge graphs, recommendation systems, and molecular modelling.

GCNGraphSAGEGATGraph Transformer

Policy optimisation through environment interaction. Underpins LLM alignment (RLHF) and sequential decision-making agents.

PPODQNA3C

Compressing large teacher models into faster, smaller student models while preserving accuracy — critical for production deployment.

Knowledge DistillationDistilBERTTinyBERTQuantisation

Classical algorithms for structured and tabular data. Fast to train, interpretable, and often the right tool before reaching for deep learning.

Supervised
XGBoostLightGBMRandom ForestAdaBoostSVMDecision Treesk-NNLogistic Regression
Unsupervised
PCAK-MeansDBSCANt-SNEUMAPIsolation Forest
NLP
Hugging FaceText ClassificationNERStarCoderCodeLLaMAWatson Speech-to-TextWatson Visual Recognition
Languages
PythonC++SQLGremlinCypher
Python Ecosystem
FastAPIPandasscikit-learnOpenCVNetworkXBokeh
Cloud & Infrastructure
DockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDOpenTelemetryWebSockets

Hands-on experience with core AWS services for data engineering, ML workloads, and application infrastructure.

EC2S3RDSVPCDynamoDBSageMakerBedrockLambdaEKSFargateIAM

Deep production experience across the Azure ecosystem — from ML pipelines and vector search to DevOps and real-time compute.

Azure MLAzure DatabricksAzure AI StudioAzure AI SearchCosmosDBAzure FunctionsAzure Form RecognizerAKSAzure DevOps
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBCosmosDBNeo4jRedisMySQLSQLite
02 — Selected work

Things I've built.

Enterprise work at IBM is under NDA — these are the pieces I can show in the open.

No projects yet.

03 — Experience

A decade in the field.

Aug 2016 – Present
Data Scientist / AI Engineer
IBM India
IBM IndiaData Scientist / AI EngineerAug 2016 – Present
  • Built end-to-end computer vision, NLP, and agentic AI solutions for global enterprise clients.
  • Fine-tuned large language models using PEFT techniques (LoRA, QLoRA) and aligned models with RLHF; deployed RAG and GraphRAG pipelines in production.
  • Designed and deployed ML systems on AWS and Azure with Docker, Kubernetes, and full MLOps practices.
PepsiCoBacardiDow ChemicalsJSWFAANedBankIffco-Tokio
IIT KharagpurM.Tech — Telecommunication Systems Engineering2014 – 2016
Dharmsinh Desai University (DDIT)B.Tech — Electronics & Communication Engineering2009 – 2013
06 — Contact

Let's build something.