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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.
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.
Decoder-only transformers trained on next-token prediction. State of the art for open-ended generation, reasoning, and instruction following.
Bidirectional transformers that produce rich contextual embeddings. Best suited for classification, NER, and semantic similarity.
Seq2seq architecture mapping input sequences to output sequences. Used for summarisation, translation, and question answering.
Generative models that learn to reverse a noise process. State of the art for high-fidelity image and media synthesis.
Region-based and anchor-free detectors for localising and classifying objects in images. Applied in insurance claim assessment and industrial inspection.
Hierarchical spatial feature extractors. Backbone of most computer vision pipelines for classification and representation learning.
Recurrent architectures that model temporal and sequential dependencies. Applied in OCR, time-series analysis, and sequence labelling.
Attention-based architecture that unified NLP and vision. Trained via self-supervised objectives before task-specific fine-tuning.
Adversarial generator–discriminator framework for producing realistic synthetic data and high-quality image generation.
Message-passing networks that learn on graph-structured data — knowledge graphs, recommendation systems, and molecular modelling.
Policy optimisation through environment interaction. Underpins LLM alignment (RLHF) and sequential decision-making agents.
Compressing large teacher models into faster, smaller student models while preserving accuracy — critical for production deployment.
Classical algorithms for structured and tabular data. Fast to train, interpretable, and often the right tool before reaching for deep learning.
Hands-on experience with core AWS services for data engineering, ML workloads, and application infrastructure.
Deep production experience across the Azure ecosystem — from ML pipelines and vector search to DevOps and real-time compute.
Enterprise work at IBM is under NDA — these are the pieces I can show in the open.
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Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer AssociateDatabricksMay 2026
IBM Generative & Agentic AI Expert — Data ScientistIBMSep 2025
Deep Learning SpecializationDeepLearning.AISep 2020
Generative AI with Large Language ModelsDeepLearning.AIJan 2024Notes on shipping AI to production — fine-tuning, agents, evals, and the unglamorous MLOps in between.

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