Rehaan S.

AI Engineer

Pune, India

Experience

Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
4 months
Cardiff, United Kingdom

AI Engineer (Dissertation Project)

SimplyDo

  • Built a semantic idea retrieval system using Gemini embeddings + FAISS, reducing query time by 85%.
  • Added filtering and fallback mechanisms to handle vague/metadata-only queries.
  • Automated data pipelines with client-specific privacy controls.
  • Achieved 100/100 SUS usability score via client testing across diverse queries.
  • Collaborated with CTO to align tech with product goals for production readiness.
May 2024 - Jul 2024
3 months
India

Data Science Intern

Unified Mentor

  • Performed EDA on sales data, engineering features that improved forecasting accuracy by 15%.
  • Built ML models for classification and time-series forecasting in retail use cases.
  • Pre-processed raw data using Pandas/NumPy, reducing model error.
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
6 months
Pune, India

Data Analyst Intern

SkillReigns

  • Built a churn prediction model using scikit-learn on 30k+ e-commerce records; improved retention by 12%.
  • Delivered insights via SQL + Power BI, reducing reporting time by 40%.
  • Automated SQL workflows to speed up business reporting.

CRAG: Corrective RAG Chatbot

  • Built a RAG chatbot for cardiology using Chroma + FLAN-T5 + BGE-small; improved response accuracy by 40%.
  • Deployed with Mistral-7B, TinyLLaMA, fallback web search (Tavily API) on FastAPI + Streamlit.

Fine-Tuning BERTweet for Sentiment Analysis

  • Fine-tuned BERTweet on multiclass Twitter data using Hugging Face; achieved 63% accuracy, 58% F1 under class imbalance.
  • Benchmarked against CNN + Word2Vec and DistilBERT, highlighting transformer models’ edge for short-text sentiment.

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Analysis

  • Replicated BitFit paper; compared BitFit, LoRA, Diff Pruning on BERT, GPT-2, and T5.
  • Found LoRA offered best accuracy–efficiency trade-off on small datasets; BitFit was simplest.

Summary

AI engineer and NLP postgraduate at Cardiff University with hands-on experience in fine-tuning transformer models, deploying ML systems, and building RAG-based applications.

Focused on real-world impact through LLMs and end-to-end AI workflows.

Languages

English
Advanced

Education

Cardiff University

Masters · Natural Language Processing · Cardiff, United Kingdom

Modern College

Bachelors · Statistics · Pune, India

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