Aditya Mahakali
AI/ML Engineer @ IBM
Solving Problems with AI | Full-stack AI Engineer | Building impactful solutions by harnessing the power of Machine Learning and Generative AI
About Me
I'm a full-stack AI Engineer, building impactful solutions by harnessing the power of Machine Learning and Generative AI to deliver real value to users and clients.
As an innovative and analytical problem-solver with a keen interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, I'm well-versed in Python programming and machine learning. I'm committed to leveraging AI technologies to drive impactful solutions and optimize processes.
My expertise spans the full AI engineering stack—from architecting robust backend systems and developing secure APIs to building intuitive and user-friendly frontends.
Experience
AI Engineer
August 2023 - Present
IBM, Bangalore
- Piloted full-stack AI solutions using Watsonx for 12+ clients across healthcare, banking, and telecommunications, resulting in 95% client satisfaction based on post-MVP feedback surveys.
- Implemented expertise spanning the full AI engineering stack—from architecting robust backend systems and developing secure APIs to building intuitive and user-friendly frontends.
- Worked on many internal productivity tools for developer as well as managerial roles like OnePagerPro, Vulnerability Scanner, etc.
- Participated in research work over RAG Techniques, Knowledge Graphs, Multi Agentic Collaboration.
Software Development Intern
Jan 2023 - August 2023
Hughes Systique Corporation, Gurugram
- Built PoCs using LLMs on private business data by integrating Hugging Face transformers with vector stores (Milvus, Chroma, Weaviate) and LangChain-inspired tools like AI chat interfaces and web retrievers.
- Completed full-stack training and developed a Spring Boot + React + Docker project, published on GitHub.
Featured Projects
IBM - ElasticSQL (Networking Client)
Implemented a Custom RAG solution that can answer questions via semantic similarity(vectors) as well as SQL-like query. Using advanced full-text search and filtering capabilities of Elastic-SQL to deliver great customer value.
- Fine-tuning embedding models
- Developed high-accuracy query classifier
- Assisted in fine-tuning reranker
IBM - Virtual Assistant Banking MVP
Fully conversational RAG chatbot with custom UI
- Architected and developed a custom end-to-end RAG-based chatbot using Watsonx.ai LLMs and Watson Assistant, embedded in a React UI with features like deep links, card carousels, and map-based location queries.
- Deployed frontend and backend services as Docker containers on IBM Cloud.
IBM - Product Search and Virtual Assistant MVP
LLM based Summarisation and RAG chatbot
- Leveraged generative AI to create summarised product descriptions from FDA documents, significantly improving search relevance for a medicinal drug store.
- Developed and deployed a RAG-based Virtual Assistant on IBM Cloud, enabling customers to query product information and place orders, enhancing customer support and streamlining the purchasing process.
IBM - Retail NL2SQL
Created a Natural Language to SQL pipeline using watsonx.ai LLMs to answer natural language queries of workers managing orders and sales.
- Automated Metadata Dictionary Creator
- Created Custom Disambiguation
- Integrated with watsonx assistant via Backend APIs in python(FastAPI)
Other IBM Pilots & Projects
- Marketing Campaign / Image Generation: Using Flux, created an automatic image-prompt improving agent using state space search.Check Demo
- Document Generation: Created similar document based on a given template and a new Idea.
- Watsonx Challenge Project: VSCode Extension for Code Vulnerability Detection
- Knowledge Graph RAG: Using LLMs over neo4j, we automated ontology creation, triplet extraction and natural language to cypher query.
Personal - MedBot - HyDe
Leveraged hypothetical document embeddings to create good quality RAG answers on medical Question Answers.
Personal - Daily Research Paper Summarizer
Leveraging Gemini to create summarizer agents which generate summaries of popular research papers published each day.
My Skills & Expertise
AI Engineering
Backend Development
Database Systems
DevOps
Publications
SEARCHD - Advanced Retrieval with Text Generation using Large Language Models and Cross Encoding Re-ranking
IEEE - October 23, 2024
Study on how different RAG techniques can deliver greater faithfulness, context relevance, and answer relevancy.
Read PublicationEducation
MCA, Computer Science and Applications
2021-2023
Jawaharlal Nehru University
7.65/9 CGPA
Studied Advanced computer science concepts with ML and NLP
BSc, Computer Science
2018-2021
Central University of Rajasthan
7.74/10 CGPA
Studied computer science fundamentals, statistics, and graduate-level mathematics
Examinations & Certifications
Examinations Cleared
- GATE CS - IIT (2023)
- UGC Net CS - UGC (2023)
- IIT JAM Mathematics - IIT (2021)
- JNUEE - JNU (2021)
Certifications
- Coursera: Intro To Python, Algorithmic ToolBox
- Kaggle: Intro To ML, Intro to Deep Learning, Intro to Computer Vision
Interests
Contact Me
I'm always open to discussing new projects, opportunities, or collaborations. Feel free to reach out!
Ready to Collaborate?
I'm always looking for exciting projects and opportunities to apply my expertise in AI and machine learning.