Founding AI Engineer · 5+ years

Pijush Pal

Founding AI Engineer · GenAI & MLOps Specialist

I build scalable AI systems — RAG pipelines, multi-agent clinical automation, LLM fine-tuning, and real-time computer vision. Proven impact in healthcare, SaaS, and edge deployment across USA, India & Europe.

New York, USA California, USA Bangalore, India Zurich, Switzerland Luxembourg,Switzerland

Years Experience

20+

AI Projects

10+

Certifications

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NYC · SF · BLR · ZRH · LUX

Selected Work

Featured Projects

Real-time Lane & Drivable Area Segmentation AI Project

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Edge AI

Multiple Disease Prediction System

This project aims to predict multiple diseases using health-related data sourced from Kaggle. The process involves several steps: Data Preprocessing, Exploratory Data Analysis, and visualization.

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Multi-Agent Clinical Workflow AI Project

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Agentic AI

Chicken-Disease-Classification--Project

This project builds a deep learning system to classify chicken diseases from images using CNN models. It includes data pipelines, training workflows, and deployment with DVC and AWS CI/CD.

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Enterprise Neo4j RAG Pipeline GenAI Project

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RAG

AI-Powered AR Product Placement System

A comprehensive AI system for realistic product placement in room environments, featuring two complementary approaches: traditional computer vision and advanced Stable Diffusion.

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💬 NLP

Medical Chat Bot

AI-powered medical chatbot for patient queries, symptom analysis, and healthcare information retrieval using LLMs.

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🔬 Healthcare AI

Medical Machine Learning

End-to-end ML models for medical diagnosis, clinical data analysis, and predictive healthcare outcomes.

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🤖 LLM Fine-tuning

DeepSeek 1.5B Fine-tune

Custom dataset fine-tuning of DeepSeek 1.5B model using LoRA/QLoRA for domain-specific task performance.

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📊 RAG + Voice

LiveKit App with RAG

Real-time voice AI application integrating LiveKit with RAG pipeline for intelligent conversational experiences.

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🎬 Recommender

Movie Recommendation System

Collaborative filtering & content-based recommendation engine with real-time user preference learning.

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💰 Prediction

Income Prediction

ML pipeline predicting income brackets using census data. XGBoost, feature engineering, and Streamlit dashboard.

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🧑‍🎤 Computer Vision

Celebrity Face Recogniser

Deep learning face recognition system using CNN and OpenCV, deployed with a Flask web interface.

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🛒 Web Scraping

Flipkart Scraping Project

Automated data extraction from Flipkart using BeautifulSoup & Selenium. Price tracking and product analytics pipeline.

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Career Path

Work Experience

Senior AI Engineer

ZS · Oct 2025 – Present

Lead GenAI apps (chatbots, RAG pipelines); LLM fine-tuning, CI/CD, cloud deployment on AWS & Azure. Mentoring junior engineers.

AI Engineer

Mangoes.ai · Mar 2024 – Feb 2025

RAG with Neo4j (+60% search speed); Whisper + TTS, LoRA fine-tuning; AKS & Azure ML; prompt engineering improved relevance by 30%.

ML Engineer

Univ. of New Haven · Jan 2023 – Jul 2023

Built admissions ML platform (Streamlit, 75-80% accuracy); led a team of 15, improved decision time by 40%.

AI Engineer

wekae.ai · Mar 2025 – Oct 2025

Referral matching +35% accuracy; patient wait -40%; agentic framework (MCP/SSE) +50% performance; HIPAA-compliant MLOps end-to-end.

Data Scientist

Welspot.inc · Oct 2023 – May 2024

ML pipelines on SageMaker + PowerBI; A/B testing, AutoML (DataRobot); serverless inference (Lambda) reduced compute costs by 20%.

ML Engineer

Ineuron Intelligence · Jan 2021 – Sep 2022

5+ ML/DL projects end-to-end; XGBoost, clustering, Tableau dashboards; improved model accuracy across projects by up to 35%.

Tech Stack

Core Skills & Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Neo4j

Jupyter

Git

OpenCV

Pandas

NumPy

Linux

Bash

Grafana

Prometheus

Redis

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

React

Node.js

MongoDB

MySQL

Java

C++

Flask

Django

GCP

Jenkins

Tailwind

Figma

Kafka

Scikit-learn

Growth Arc

Skills growth journey

Foundation → Agentic AI & edge

Foundation

Python, ML basics, data

Deep Learning

PyTorch, TF, CV, NLP

LLMs & RAG

Langchain, LlamaIndex, Neo4j

Agentic AI

AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP

MLOps / Cloud

SageMaker, AKS, CI/CD

Academic Background

Academic Journey

Aug 2014 – Aug 2018

B.Tech · Computer Science

IIEST Shibpur, India

Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Networks, Operating Systems.

Football & Cricket · Community volunteer

Mar 2019 – Apr 2020

M.Tech · CSE (IoT) · CGPA: 9.64/10

IIT Madras, India

Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Networks, IoT.

Football & Cricket · Community volunteer

Jan 2023 – May 2024

M.S. · Data Science

University of New Haven, USA

GPA: 3.73 / 4.0 · Generative AI, Data Engineering, Advanced ML.

Data Science Club · GenAI research track.

🏅 Dean's List · Excellence in Data Science

Oct 2025 – Mar 2026

Professional Certificate · Atmospheric Chemistry & Climatology

Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment

Greenhouse gas dynamics, climate modeling, extreme-weather science.

Online cohort · climate-change research discussions.

Verified Credentials

Licenses & Certifications

Credential

Centaur AI Institute

Neuro Symbolic AI Summer School

Issued Sep 2025

Neuro-SymbolicReasoningAI

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Kaggle

Vamwire · Kaggle

Kaggle Competition Expert Track

Issued Feb 2025

ML CompetitionEDA

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Agents

Hugging Face

AI Agents Fundamentals

Feb 2025 · ID Pijush2023

AI AgentsTransformers

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Ethics

CITI Program

Conflicts of Interest

Oct 2024 · Expires Oct 2028

ID: 65972964

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Coursera

Introduction to Generative AI

Jun 2023 · ID 3TB3YEL3DDGJ

GenAILLMs

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Codebasics

Excel: Mother of Business Intelligence

Jun 2023 · CB-51-105461

Data TransformationFinance

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Social Proof

LinkedIn Recommendations

What colleagues & managers say about working with Pijush

Sridhar (Sri) A.

Chief AI Integrator · Founder & Advisor

Oct 2, 2025 · Senior to Pijush at Wekare Inc.

★★★★★

Pijush demonstrated a strong ability to learn quickly, take ownership, and deliver with consistency on challenging projects. He helped design parts of our client-server agentic framework, worked on AI/ML models for referral matching and patient triage, and contributed to NLP pipelines.

LinkedIn Recommendation

Umer Sami

Full Stack Engineer / Software Architect

Oct 1, 2025 · Same team at Wekare

★★★★★

I've had the chance to work with Pijush and was deeply impressed by his knowledge of ML, Deep Learning, and Generative AI. What stands out is not just his technical expertise, but his ability to understand how things really work — essential for building products with real business value.

LinkedIn Recommendation

Tom John

CIO | CTO | Technology Architect | AI Innovator

May 29, 2024 · Managed Pijush directly

★★★★★

Pijush is a knowledgeable and capable Data Scientist. I hand-selected him for our internship program and placed him into our AI/NLP and Data Science/ML project teams. He will be a valuable asset to any company.

LinkedIn Recommendation

Dhaval Desai

Healthcare IT Product Architect | RAG & Agentic AI

Oct 2, 2025 · Same team

★★★★★

Very hardworking, dedicated, and meticulous in attention to detail. Very good understanding of AI, Agentic model, Ambient listening, Designing custom LLMs, and OpenAI integration.

LinkedIn Recommendation

Michael Montenegro Lederman

Chief Risk Officer | FinTech | AI/ML Data Science

May 29, 2024 · Senior to Pijush at WelSpot

★★★★★

Pijush is a well-rounded data scientist. He built the AI/ML Framework for the firm while understanding strategic and operational implications. Shows keen interest in learning and applying AI/ML techniques.

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Let's build something intelligent

Open to Founding AI Engineer roles, consulting, and research collaboration globally.
New York · California · Bangalore · Zurich · Luxembourg
Email: Contact@pijushpal.online · 8217707328

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