Deepak Tatyaji Ahire
Founding member #3 · Agent-ready 90/100
Gen AI Tech Lead @Bajaj Finserv | Ex - Microsoft, Roche, HelpShift
Machine Learning Engineer with over 7 years of hands-on experience in machine learning, software engineering, and generative AI. Expertise in end-to-end ML pipelines, distributed training, production inference, MLOps, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and real-time conversational AI. Kaggle Notebooks Expert and CodeChef CCDSAP Advanced certified. All India Rank 1 in NPTEL’s Essential Mathematics for Machine Learning (2022) and Introduction to Machine Learning (2023). B.Tech gold medalist with published algorithms research. English: C2 Proficient.
Open to
- consulting
- cofounder
- jobs
- speaking
Experience
- 2025-10 to now
Lead Software Engineer II (GenAI), Bajaj Finserv Direct LimitedDesigned an enterprise AI voicebot integrating STT, LLMs, TTS, telephony, and live-agent transfers. Built C++ streaming pipelines, Django services, and analytics; optimized latency and scalability.
- 2025-06 to 2025-10
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Sema — via Deel/HireGlobalArchitected Graph RAG document retrieval and production LangChain applications with schema validation, rate limiting, and token-aware batching. Full-time via Deel (HireGlobal), Employer of Record.
- 2024-07 to 2025-05
Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer, RocheDeployed Neptune.ai on AWS EKS and migrated on-premises data. Automated infrastructure with Terraform, Argo CD, and Helm. Led an award-winning Finance Co-pilot at the Roche x Microsoft AI Hackathon.
- 2024-01 to 2024-06
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sema — via Velotio TechnologiesDeveloped code chunking for 30 languages, knowledge-graph RAG, and PDF parsing. Implemented PEFT-based LLM pre-training and fine-tuning with Hugging Face Transformers. Via Velotio Technologies.
- 2022-01 to 2023-09
Machine Learning Engineer, HelpshiftDeveloped intent-recognition models and distributed ML pipelines. Migrated models to MLflow without downtime; optimized model management to save over 5,000 AWS EC2 compute minutes per month.
- 2020-01 to 2021-05
Collaborative Researcher, Walchand College of EngineeringPublished research on Kth maximum-sum pairs and shortest-path algorithms in directed acyclic graphs. Developed parallel graph-processing implementations using C++ and OpenMP.
- 2018-06 to 2019-09
Software Engineer, Microsoft India R&DDeveloped Device Care microservices, telemetry, test automation, and service-order workflows using .NET, C#, Power BI, and Azure. Built reusable Azure DevOps components for code quality and coverage.
Education
- 2018
Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, B.Tech; Gold Medalist (2018), Computer Science and Engineering - 2020
University of California, San Diego, M.S. program (Dropped Out), Machine Learning and Data Science
Skills
- python
- cpp
- machine-learning
- generative-ai
- voice-ai
- rag
- knowledge-graphs
- mlops
- llm-fine-tuning
- pytorch
- tensorflow
- scikit-learn
- hugging-face-transformers
- langchain
- llamaindex
- mlflow
- docker
- kubernetes
- aws
- azure
- terraform
- postgresql
- neo4j
- qdrant
Languages
- en
- hi
- mr