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.
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.
Comparing five insurers’ policies, clause by clause
A retrieval-free extract-then-arbitrate pipeline over long policy documents.
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.
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 Contact
Have an AI problem worth getting right?
Open to lead AI/ML roles. Tell me the decision you’re trying to improve.
parikhkadam@gmail.comOr find me on LinkedIn.