Bhavani Balan

Having around 3 years of experience in Generative AI, OCR, Web scraping and FastAPI. Skilled in python, FastAPI, beautiful soup, Selenium, Hugging Face Transformers, LLM and RAG. Experienced in building scalable APIs, SQL-integrated applications and deploying solutions on AWS.

AI Engineer - Straive

(2023-11)

• Built and deployed LLM-powered applications using Hugging Face Transformers and OpenAI APIs for text generation, summarization and question-answering use cases.
• Designed and optimized prompt engineering strategies, improving response accuracy,relevance and contextual alignment for business.
• Fine-tuned transformer models on domain-specific datasets, increasing model performance and task-specific accuracy.
• Developed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using databases, enhancing response quality with external knowledge sources.
• Implemented semantic search and embedding-based retrieval systems, enabling efficient similarity search across large datasets.
• Integrated Generative AI solutions into application and dashboard, enabling intelligent automation and decision making.
• Deployed scalable AI services using cloud platforms (AWS) for production grade applications.
• Applied prompt chaining and optimization techniques to reduce hallucinations and improve output consistency.
• Continuously explored and implemented emerging GenAI tools and techniques to improve model performance and business impact.
• Engineered and maintained client-specific web crawling applications to automate data extraction using selenium, bs4 and SQL.

Software Engineer Intern - Unlimited Innovations

(2023-02 - 2023-04)

• Partnered with team members to learn best practices in software designs.
• Prioritized tasks and complete in order of importance
• Learnt basics of SQL

BE - Computer Science - Anna university (2019 - 2023)