S MIRAL R ASHINKAR

+918149633697 | rashinkar.smiral@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/smiral-rashinkar | github.com/smiraldr | India

P ROFILE
A Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Evangelist. I relish designing and building for ML solutions at scale. Generalist who’s always
looking out for challenging work and learning new tech. Currently pioneering ML Engineering, MLOps and Empowering user
generated content with State-of-the-art Applied NLP for for World’s second largest micro-blogging platform Koo India. In my spare
time, I consult and advise early-stage startups on machine learning solutions. Check out my blogs on Medium.
S KILLS
Languages - Python3, SQL Data Engineering tools - Apache Kafka, Airflow Cloud - Azure, AWS, GCP Devops tools - Docker,
Kubernetes, Prometheus-Grafana ML Engineering tools - BentoML, Ludwig, MLFlow Databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB,
ElasticSearch Frameworks - Tensorflow, Pytorch, Scikit learn, FastAPI, Node.js Knowledge - MLOps, Machine Learning, NLP,
Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Project Management, DevOps, Backend API Development, Cloud Architecture OS - Linux, OSX
E XPERIENCE
ML Engineer, Koo India Jan 2022 – Present
• Orchestrated ML Platform from scratch for model training, experimentation, evaluation and deployment with seamless CI/CD for ML models.
• Increased the topic coverage for high impact topics feature on platform by 70% and building the same for all indic and international languages.
• Implemented moderation measures for hate speech, disinformation, and offensive content across all forms of media on the platform.
• Deployed and scaled Deep Learning Models as real-time APIs on Accelerated pods having low latency to handle 2M+ Daily traffic on platform.
• Streamlined existing and new cron/batch jobs to use Apache Airflow.
• Established standards for code practices, alerting , deployment and document designs for new project proposals.
• Worked closely with Open source maintainers to report and resolve issues for Ludwig (link).
• Consulted part-time for two months before joining as FTE.
Associate Data Scientist, Bajaj Finserv Health Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
• Improved Search Intelligence Framework and App Search CTR from 55% to 67% through hypothesis testing and product analytics.
• Architected and built Communication Governance platform , Voice prescription and AI solutions to ease operations and reporting.
• Defined KPI Metrics Roadmap for Appointment Conversions using Google Analytics, Clever-Tap etc.
• Converted from Intern to FTE in June 2021.
Cloud Engineer (Freelance), Rivi.co May 2022 – Jul 2022
• Migration of the entire cloud ecosystem, comprising VMs, Kubernetes cluster, databases from Google Cloud Platform to Microsoft Azure.
ML Engineer (Freelance), Ireadrx.ai Mar 2021 – Jun 2021
• Built AI capabilities for patent research tool using NLP for fast tracking research and innovation in the field of life sciences.
• Worked on Topic Modelling , Keywords similarity and Similar Patents features using Gensim, Spacy, Fasttext, Annoy, and HuggingFace.
Technical Intern, Anheuser Busch InBev Jun 2020 – Dec 2020
• Completed Development, User Acceptance Testing, Hyper-care and Go Live Maintenance, End to End Intelligent Robotic Process Automation.
• Mentored other employees under the Citizen Developer Model to develop their own bots.

E DUCATION
SRM Institute Of Science and Technology, B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering Chennai, Tamil Nadu
CGPA : 9.0 2017 – 2021

C ERTIFICATES
AWS Certified: Cloud Practitioner, Cleared CLF-C01 Exam link
Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals, Official Astronomer Airflow Certification link
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate, Cleared AI-100 Exam link
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, Cleared DP-100 Exam link
Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate, Cleared DA-100 Exam link
Architecting with Google compute engine Specialization, Coursera link
ACHIEVEMENTS
BuildersCamp Hackathon Winner 2023 , BuildersCamp Linkedin Post
Built a Deep learning powered Resume Reranker on Intel One API Platform
Devfolio Web3 Hackathons - Bounty Wins, Devfolio Hackathons
Participated and won bounties in couple of Web3 hackathons. Ethernals, Buidl it
IBM Call For Code Bangalore Hackathon Winner 2019, IBM India
Proposed a Disaster Mitigation app which provides safe zones locally based on Geographical and Demographical Datasets.
AB InBev Beer Shot Award, Anheuser Busch InBev
Awarded during internship for exceptional work
Student Ambassador, AWS Educate
Official AWS Educate Ambassador selected among 350 Students globally to evangelise AWS Educate program
Alexa Student Influencer, Amazon Alexa India
Official Alexa Student Influencer selected among 10 PAN India, Founder and Team lead at Alexa Developers SRM
Technical Associate, Developer Student Club SRM
Delivered Talks and Hands-on Workshop for Machine Learning using Tensorflow, Google Cloud and Qwiklabs