Prajwal Chilap

AI/ML Engineer (MSc, University of Sussex) with a year's hands-on experience delivering production-grade RAG pipelines, finetuned NLP models and ML-backed APIs. Proven ability to take AI systems from prototype through to deployment: evaluated, tested and reliable, not just notebook demos.

AI Intern at Ovin Technologies (2025-05 – 2026-04)

• Engineered RAG pipelines using vector databases, semantic search and LLMs, powering enterprise knowledge retrieval for internal teams.
• Fine-tuned transformer-based NLP models (Hugging Face, BERT) for text classification and document understanding.
• Delivered FastAPI-based REST APIs to serve ML models in production, partnering with cloud engineers on AWS and Azure deployment and monitoring.
• Automated business workflows using Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and scikit-learn, improving operational efficiency.
• Built data preprocessing, feature engineering and model evaluation pipelines for structured and unstructured enterprise datasets.

Teaching Assistant at Teaching Personnel (2025-03 – Present)

• Supported learners aged 2–25 with diverse needs, adapting instruction methods for inclusion.
• DBS Enhanced clearance held, ensuring compliance with safeguarding standards.

Volunteer Educator at Decent Foundation (2022-06 – 2024-07)

• Delivered literacy and numeracy instruction; led workshops on health awareness and legal rights.

MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Systems – University of Sussex (2024-09 – 2025-09)

BE in Computer Engineering – Savitribai Phule Pune University (2019-07 – 2024-08)