Lead AI/ML Engineer
AI systems that hold up in production.
I’m Kadam Parikh. For 7+ years I’ve built machine-learning and generative-AI systems and led the teams behind them, with one aim: AI that is measured, transparent and tied to the decision it supports.
Certified: Claude Certified Architect · Azure Data Scientist Associate
01 Focus
Where I’m most useful
- When a promising demo has to become something people rely onTurn LLM prototypes into systems teams can trust: structured outputs, cost control, production hardening.
- When nobody can say whether it’s actually workingBuild the evaluation harness: judges checked against hand labels, controlled A/B runs, so “better” is a number.
- When the inputs are messy: documents, specs, voice, scattered dataTurn unstructured inputs into dependable, checkable decisions.
- When you need someone embedded with the problem, from model to interfaceWork alongside the people who use it, scope what matters, then build and own the result.
02 Hands-on
Hands-on engineering
Systems I designed and implemented myself: how they work and how success was measured. Client names are withheld.
Insight generation for a customer-intelligence platform
A judge validated against hand labels, 80–90% wasted reprocessing removed, incidents traced to root cause.
Event-driven platform for algorithmic crypto trading
An architecture where one algorithm runs unmodified on live data and in historical replay.
Comparing five insurers’ policies, clause by clause
A retrieval-free extract-then-arbitrate pipeline over long policy documents.
03 Approach
How I work
Measure the measurement
Run the baseline more than once before trusting any before-and-after comparison. See it in practice
Test the obvious fix
The intuitive improvement is sometimes the one that hurts. Check it with a controlled comparison first. See it in practice
Find the waste
Quantify what a pipeline repeats or discards before adding more model calls. See it in practice
04 Team-led
Team-led engineering
Projects my teams built while I was lead engineer, credited to the team and honest about what is unfinished.
Teaching a small model to say “I don’t know”
Invented answers cut from 38% to 0.03% by fine-tuning a sub-1B model.
Plan, don’t generate
An AI that directs a narrated explainer video but never writes the code that renders it.
Vāṇī: a voice AI engine where every part swaps
Real-time conversation with natural interruption, in the cloud or fully offline.
05 Blogs
Understanding how it works
Explanations of how AI systems work, why they are built that way, and what has changed.
06 Contact
Have an AI problem worth getting right?
Open to lead AI/ML roles. Tell me the decision you’re trying to improve.
kadamparikh.ai@gmail.comOr find me on LinkedIn.
