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Senior AI Engineer · Los Angeles, CA

gupta.saksham98@gmail.com · GitHub · embedding.one

Work experience

Senior AI Engineer

TWG AI Los Angeles, CA September 2025 – Present
  • Driving GenAI innovation and business transformation, in association with Palantir, across industries — on a portfolio encompassing the LA Dodgers, Lakers, Guggenheim Investments, Group 1001 Insurance, Cadillac Formula 1, etc.
  • Embedded with lawyers, investment bankers, and asset managers where I understand how they work, and design custom agentic workflows based on their needs.
  • Working on pushing the limits of agentic capabilities, scaling to hundreds of tools, long term memory, and agentic RAG/document understanding over millions of documents, all while maintaining latency SLAs.

Machine Learning Engineer

Deloitte Los Angeles, CA January 2024 – September 2025
  • Working with the Audit and Assurance group to help accelerate audit processes using generative AI applications. Implementing long term memory for chat agents, along with fine tuning using RL for more efficient function calling and tool usage.
  • Deployed Deloitte's flagship GenAI chatbot for audit professionals — DARTbot / Research Assistant.
  • Benchmarked LLM tools like Llamaindex, Langchain, etc. and vector DBs like Chroma, Milvus, Pinecone, etc. for production use cases.

AI Governance Machine Learning Engineer

nFactor Technologies Remote September 2023 – December 2023
  • As a founding ML engineer, I led the development of an AI/ML Governance platform that enables customers to use the latest LLM services/applications with the assurance of enterprise grade compliance and safety policies.
  • Built and scaled RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines, along with spearheading AI safety research.
  • Optimizing LLM inference and deployment using techniques like model pruning, quantization, and CUDA kernel optimizations.

Pharma Manufacturing Data Science Intern

Biogen Durham, NC June 2023 – August 2023
  • Deployed end-to-end pipeline for detecting contradictory statements (NLI) in clinical trial protocol documents using generative AI.

Data Science Associate Consultant

ZS Associates Bangalore, India August 2020 – August 2022
  • Led efforts in propensity modeling, market segmentation, and linear optimization for leading bio-pharma clients using EMR and insurance claims data; used explainable algorithms like SHAP, LIME to automate model output explanations from models like XGBoost, Random Forests; expanded project scope to cater to three varied drug portfolios.
  • Designed nationwide transportation optimization platform using agent-based simulation for a premier Japanese pharma client, creating a solution for transport scenario simulation, using geo-spatial ML algorithms for optimal treatment center identification.

Product Engineering Intern

Stylumia Intelligence Bangalore, India February 2020 – June 2020
  • Applied deep learning for segmentation/attribute extraction from fashion image datasets and developed a data labeling tool for SMEs.

Technology Intern

American Express Gurgaon, India May 2018 – July 2018
  • Deep learning-based financial forecasting, integrating time-series ensemble methodologies to enhance forecasting accuracy.
Education

Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis

December 2023

Master's degree (MS), Applied Data Science · GPA 3.96 / 4

  • Coursework: NLP, Biostatistics, Computer Vision, Quantum Computing, Remote Sensing, Database Design, Cloud Computing.
  • Research Assistant: fine-tuning LLMs as part of a pipeline to extract adverse drug event data from clinical trial notes.
  • Research Assistant: evaluating and improving gender/ethnicity based bias detection and mitigation algorithms to make LLMs safer.
  • Research Assistant: designed and 3D-printed lab containers using Autodesk GenAI and constraint optimization tools — decreased wastage by 30%.
  • Teaching Assistant: 2D Animation, Advanced 2D Animation, Motion Graphics.

Vellore Institute of Technology

September 2020

Bachelor's degree (BS), Computer Science and Engineering · GPA 3.8 / 4

Skills
  • LLMsLangchain, Llamaindex, MCP, Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI Agent SDK
  • ProgrammingPython, R, PySpark, Git, LaTeX, MATLAB, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • ToolsPostgres, SQL, RESTful web services, Neo4j, Hadoop, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI, Django, Flask
  • ML EngineeringMLFlow, Sagemaker, Kedro, BentoML, Dask, Airflow
  • Scientific MLNumpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch, JAX, Huggingface, Scipy
  • VisualizationTableau, Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn, D3.js, Power BI, Alteryx, Streamlit, Gradio, Chainlit
  • OtherGoogle Earth Engine, GitHub, Microsoft Office
  • LanguagesEnglish (native), Hindi (native), German (intermediate), Russian (beginner)
Research & projects
  • Worked with Lakera, a Zurich-based AI firm and the creators of the Gandalf challenge, as an AI safety evangelist.
  • Participant in the Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG’24), an online think tank for the exploration of code and digital culture.
  • Participated in the International Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Applications, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  • Paper on Explainable ML accepted at the Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications conference, NIT Surathkal.