AI / ML Engineer

Ashrith Vadde

Building production LLM systems and measurable ML

Two years shipping LLM and RAG features in enterprise settings. Currently pursuing an MS in Engineering Data Science and AI at the University of Houston.

70% code migration cut
0.85 macro-F1 (CFPB)
4.0 MS GPA

About

About Me

I build production AI systems—LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and evaluation-minded ML—with experience at Accenture and research at Samsung PRISM. My interests sit at the intersection of generative AI, explainable AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning.

Stack

Skills & Technologies

01

AI & Machine Learning

Deep learning, LLMs, RAG systems, explainable AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning

TensorFlow PyTorch OpenAI API LangChain SHAP OpenCV

02

Development & Frameworks

Full-stack development focused on AI application deployment and REST APIs

Python Java FastAPI Next.js SQL

03

Cloud & MLOps

Azure cloud services, ML pipeline automation, and model deployment

Azure OpenAI Azure Databricks Git Postman

Selected work

Featured Projects

0.85 macro-F1

CFPB Complaint XAI Audit

Fine-tuned DistilBERT for 8-class complaint routing, plus a faithfulness audit showing IG, SHAP, and attention rollout agree on only 13–29% of top-attributed tokens.

DistilBERT XAI SHAP Transformers
5 encoders compared

Sentence Embedding Techniques for Summarization

Comparative study of transformer and graph embeddings for extractive news summarization, evaluated with ROUGE on the BBC corpus.

Transformers Graph Embeddings ROUGE NLP
97.6% test accuracy

Corn Leaf Disease Classification

Deep ensemble of VGG16, MobileNet, InceptionV3, and Xception with data balancing and augmentation for corn leaf disease classification.

TensorFlow Deep Learning CNNs Ensemble Methods
100% success vs Dijkstra

RL Navigation

Q-Learning, Dueling Double DQN with prioritized replay, and PPO agents navigating a grid world with static and dynamic obstacles, benchmarked against Dijkstra.

PPO DQN PyTorch Evaluation
1024 highest tile

2048 — Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deep Q-Learning agent in PyTorch that learns 2048 from scratch; DQN and Dueling DQN tuned with Optuna, both beating a published baseline.

PyTorch Reinforcement Learning Deep Q-Learning

Research

Publications

Playing Maze Using Voice Commands

ICCCNT 2023 · June 2023

Deep-learning model that converts voice commands into spectrograms for real-time hands-free maze navigation.

Deep Learning Audio Processing Spectrograms Real-time Systems

Real-Time Human-Computer Interaction Using Hand Gestures

ICTIS 2023 · April 2023

Computer-vision gesture interface for virtual mouse and keyboard control with real-time hand tracking via OpenCV and MediaPipe.

OpenCV Computer Vision Hand Tracking HCI

Career

Experience

AI/ML Computational Science Analyst

Accenture · Nov 2023 – Aug 2025 · Hyderabad, India

Built scalable AI features for the GenLite reverse-engineering platform using LLMs, function calling, and prompt engineering. Designed a code conversion module that reduced manual migration effort by over 70%. Delivered RAG and chatbot POCs, several of which moved into production.

LLMs RAG Azure Production AI

Project Intern

Samsung PRISM · Sep 2021 – Apr 2022

Researched model interpretability with a team of six using SHAP, CEM, and LIME, improving explainability by 40%. Developed an XAI framework for production ML systems.

Explainable AI SHAP LIME Research

Academics

Education

MS in Engineering Data Science and AI

University of Houston · Aug 2025 – May 2027

CGPA: 4.0 / 4.0

Data Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

B.Tech in CSE (Artificial Intelligence)

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru · June 2019 – May 2023

CGPA: 8.43 / 10

Computer Science AI Engineering Deep Learning

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Open to roles and collaborations on production AI and data-driven products. Happy to talk about LLMs, evaluation, or anything in between.

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