Santaji Kadam

Generative AI Developer and Junior Data Scientist with 3 years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and LLM-based applications. Skilled in Python, TensorFlow, LangChain, FAISS, YOLOv8, and RAG architecture for building intelligent AI solutions. Developed impactful projects including an LLM-powered Web Scraper with semantic search and CropGuard using YOLOv8 achieving 88% mAP.

Experienced in model training, data preprocessing, vector databases, prompt engineering, and API development using FastAPI

Junior Data Scientist at Smartwork Ideas Pvt Ltd Pune (2023-04 – Present)

• Trained Scikit-Learn/TensorFlow classification models achieving 92% accuracy across 50K+ records.
• Applied BERT/DistilBERT for text classification and sentiment analysis, reducing manual effort by ~35%.
• Built RAG pipeline (LangChain + FAISS) for Q&A over 10K+ docs, reducing cost by ~40%.
• Built OpenCV pipeline (resize, augment, denoise) to preprocess 5,000+ images for YOLOv8 training.
• Engineered 15+ features (encoding, scaling, imputation) with Pandas/NumPy, boosting F1-score by ~8%.

Master of Computer Application in Information Security – Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune