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Vedant Shelkar

ML Engineer, Building scalable AI infrastructure alongside Forward Deployed Software Engineering.

Vedant Shelkar

About

Final-year B.Tech at IIT Madras. My work runs the whole way from ML research to forward deployed engineering — training and interpreting models at one end, sitting with the people who actually use them at the other. Always curious about how things work, and how they can be made better.

Currently building voice AI agents at Riverline AI and researching LLM interpretability at IIT Madras' Centre for Responsible AI.

When I'm not tinkering with agents and models, I also manage operations for quant hiring across India.

Work Experience

Riverline AI Voice AI Agents
April 2026 – July 2026
Engineering Intern
Bengaluru

Building voice AI agents and the evals that keep them honest.

AgentsEvalsSTTTTSVADPython
GoLLM Limited Data Science & Analytics
December 2025 – January 2026
Developer Intern
Edinburgh, UK

Built an automated survey-analytics pipeline on LangGraph + Celery, with a token-efficient orchestration layer that cut API costs 40%.

LangGraphCeleryAWS S3MongoDBTime-Series
IIT Madras NLP & Fine-tuning
April 2025 – September 2025
Research Assistant — Dr. M. Jagannathan
Chennai

Legal-document NLP for construction claims — OCR into a fine-tuned NER pipeline that hit 86.1% F1 against human annotation.

spaCyTesseract OCRNERLLM Retrieval

Selected Work

Skills

PyTorch Fine-tuning SFT QLoRA RLHF HuggingFace Transformers TensorFlow Scikit-Learn LangGraph LangChain RAG Vector DBs Qdrant Pinecone Agentic orchestration Prompt engineering Eval engineering Python C++ FastAPI Celery Redis Docker AWS GCP PostgreSQL MongoDB Information Retrieval Retrieval Systems Workflow Automation Time-Series Analysis Clustering Statistical Testing Survey Analytics Claims Analysis Systems Management Large Language Models

Extra-Curriculars

#2E-Summit'25
VentureSprint, IIT Madras
2nd nationally among 300+ teams. Pitched a "Tap & Pay" SIM-style card activation; offered pre-incubation by PedalStart.
₹1Cr+Sponsorship
Shaastra 2025 · Sponsorship & PR
Coordinated ₹1Cr+ in deliverables across 15+ companies including Boeing, Caterpillar and Digikey.
45K+Operations
IICPC Codefest · Ops
End-to-end logistics across 8 IITs for 45,000+ participants.
Recognition
PedalStart Pre-Incubation
Selected for pre-incubation off the back of the VentureSprint pitch.
Robotics
Mars Rover Team · Anveshak
Built a Mars rover with IIT Madras' interplanetary robotics team. (May – Dec 2024)
Mentorship
Student Mentor · Saathi IITM
Mentored two first-years on academics and early-career planning. (Aug 2024 – May 2025)
Debate
Parliamentary Debate Mgmt
Ran the first edition of the IITM Parliamentary Debate. (Sep 2023 – Nov 2024)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2023 - 2027
B.Tech // final year