Alston Mendonca

AI/ML Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI, NLP, and computer vision systems in production-like environments. Strong in Python, FastAPI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, AWS Bedrock, and end-to-end model-serving workflows. Built production-oriented ML pipelines and AI-enabled applications with a focus on scalability, reliability, and business outcomes.

Co-Founder and CTO at ViperCore (2026-04 – Present)

• Co-founded and shipped an offline-first restaurant POS platform adopted by 50+ cafes across Karnataka.
• Architected backend and data workflows for billing, inventory, reporting, and sync-safe local-first operation in low-connectivity environments.
• Drove product roadmap, release cycles, and customer feedback loops to improve stability, feature adoption, and operational reliability.

Backend Developer and Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Aquera (2025-11 – 2026-03)

• Built and improved ML pipelines for Identity and Access Management (IAM), focused on service-account discovery and classification.
• Fine-tuned BERT-based text classifiers and evaluated model behavior using precision-recall tradeoffs for imbalanced, weakly labeled data.
• Applied CatBoost, LightGBM, RuleFit, LLM-assisted features, and Elkan-Noto positive-unlabeled learning for production-oriented classification tasks and model evaluation.

Software Developer and AI Intern at Heritage Safety Training Centre (2024-10 – 2025-10)

• Built and launched the corporate website using React and Vite to improve accessibility, navigation, and content maintainability.
• Developed a full-stack Learning Management System for training operations, course workflows, and administrative tracking.
• Implemented an LLM-powered support chatbot to automate responses for recurring learner and training-related queries.

Bachelor of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – St. Joseph Engineering College (2022-08 – 2026-04)

High School in Computer Science – GEMS Education (2013-04 – 2022-03)