Manas Kulkarni
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Manas Kulkarni

AI Engineer
Navi Mumbai, India

About Me

AI/ML Engineer with production experience building intelligent systems across EdTech, healthcare, construction, and enterprise automation. Specialises in end-to-end ML pipelines, LLM-powered applications, computer vision, and cloud-native deployments. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, architect scalable AI solutions, and deliver measurable business impact — from automated assessment platforms and construction forecasting to real-time diagnostic systems and conversational AI.

Skills & Technologies

PythonJavaC++TensorFlowPyTorchKerasScikit-LearnLlamaIndexLangChainLangGraphHuggingFace TransformersNumPyPandasApache SparkAzure DatabricksAzureDockerFastAPIGitChromaDBPineconeJupyter NotebooksGoogle Colab

Work Experience

Junior Software Engineer

Mindguard Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
Dec 2024 – Present

Spearheaded development of an AI-Powered Scholarship Assessment Platform to automate academic merit evaluation at scale. Integrated an LLM-based Question Generation Engine that dynamically synthesizes curriculum-aligned questions across difficulty levels and subject domains, and built an AI Proctoring System using computer vision and behavioral analytics. Delivered a cloud-deployable architecture with real-time administrator monitoring dashboards.

Projects

Employee & Leave Management System (MCP-Based)

Architected a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server automating HR workflows.

MCPREST APIs

Interactive QA Bot (RAG System)

Built a real-time RAG-based QA system over enterprise PDF corpora using Pinecone for semantic vector retrieval.

RAGPineconeLLM

CDOC – Conversational Document Intelligence Assistant

Developed a locally-hosted document assistant using Llama 3 and ChromaDB.

Llama 3ChromaDB

Gesture-Based Music Control System

Built an embedded AI system on Raspberry Pi translating ultrasonic sensor gesture inputs.

Raspberry PiSignal Processing

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence (PG-DAI)

General

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)2024

Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics Engineering

General

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai2023
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