AI/ML Engineer · Bengaluru
Building applied AI for Indic languages — LLM pipelines, evals, and the backend that holds them up in production. Recently shipped Setu V2 at Pratilipi, a multi-stage LLM adaptation pipeline now in org-wide review for rollout across 12 Indic languages.
Reach me: rama.charan.official@gmail.com · LinkedIn · Resume
- Multi-stage LLM pipelines with evals — decomposition over monolithic prompting
- Multilingual NLP for Indic languages (translation, classification, TTS)
- Backend that makes ML actually ship — FastAPI, async, auth, deployment
- Eval and guardrail design for non-deterministic systems
Setu V2 (private, Pratilipi) — 3-pass source-blind LLM adaptation pipeline replacing a single-pass V1. Authored a 7-dimension evals benchmark; 58% fewer adaptation defects on blind A/B with LLM-as-judge validated against human reviewers. In org-wide review for rollout.
ContentClosureFlow (private, Pratilipi) — Multilingual author-abandonment classifier (multilingual-e5-large + logistic regression) productionized as a daily AWS Step Function. 90.5% cross-lingual accuracy after diagnosing and fixing a label-leakage issue that took the first-pass score from 44.5%.
KhetAI — Tool-augmented LLM assistant for Indian agriculture queries. Intent-classified routing across 6 live API tools (weather, mandi prices, plant disease ID, geolocation, news, LLM). Validated with 10 farmers near my college. Live as an Android APK.
SpeechT5 Telugu TTS — Fine-tuned SpeechT5 on 8,576 IndicTTS Telugu samples using a Telugu-to-Latin transliteration shim so the English-trained tokenizer could process Telugu. Validation loss 0.67 → 0.45. Open-sourced on Hugging Face; 600+ downloads. Loss-based evaluation only — see model card for limitations.
Python, TypeScript · PyTorch, Hugging Face, scikit-learn · FastAPI, Next.js, async · AWS (Step Functions, S3, ECR), GCP · PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Qdrant · Auth0, SQLAlchemy
B.Tech AI/ML, VVIT (2026) · AI/ML Engineer Intern at Pratilipi (Feb-Jun 2026, Firebolts team) · Full-stack AI Intern at AI4Bharat / IIT Madras (Oct 2025 – Feb 2026)
AWS Certified AI Practitioner · NPCI Bharat AI Quest 2025 finalist · ISRO Bharatiya Antariksha Hackathon 2025 shortlist


