Raghav Kochhar

ML Engineer & Software Developer

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Summary

ML Engineer building event-driven systems and pipelines on GCP. Skilled in Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Run, and real-time inference, translating business needs into reliable, cost-efficient ML services.

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Education

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies — Technical Campus

2021 — 2025

Bachelor of Technology in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CGPA: 9.03/10)

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Experience

Software Engineering and MLOps Intern

August 2025 — Present

Jaipur Robotics

  • Engineered stateful Apache Beam/Dataflow pipelines to aggregate sensor streams, implementing complex deduplication logic across adjacent gates to resolve multi-camera overlap
  • Optimized streaming job costs by right-sizing Dataflow workers, cutting compute spend by 50%
  • Built a Cloud Run service for ONNX door-state inference (model trained from scratch, 98% accuracy), handling video processing with FFmpeg and session storage in AlloyDB
  • Architected a video-generation platform (FastAPI + Streamlit) that renders timelapse videos from GCS using Cloud Tasks for async processing

Data Science Intern

Summer 2024

Stealth Startup

  • Led three production ML systems for traffic analysis, sign language, and emotion classification with 90%+ accuracy
  • Deployed containerized solutions on AWS, reducing inference latency by 25%
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Projects

  • Built a real-time sign language recognition system with EfficientNet and LSTM, achieving 95% accuracy
  • Deployed the model via a FastAPI backend and Streamlit interface with live webcam inference
  • Developed a seven-class emotion recognition LSTM model trained on 1,200 audio samples
  • Built a FastAPI inference API and Streamlit UI for real-time and batch audio analysis
  • Created a YOLOv8-powered traffic monitoring system achieving 90% mAP with pedestrian and signal detection
  • Integrated traffic-light color recognition for smart-city planning insights

Automaton: No-Code ML Workflow Platform

  • Implemented a No-Code ML workflow platform for data preprocessing, training, and tuning
  • Built interactive dashboards for model benchmarking and performance visualization
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Research

Efficient Adaptation of Lightweight LLMs

ICAAI 2025, Springer
  • Benchmarked Baseline, T-Free, and STELLA on consumer-grade hardware, validating edge feasibility
  • Achieved 75% embedding reduction with T-Free while maintaining accuracy

Health Helix: Connecting You to Better Health

COM-IT-CON 2024, Taylor & Francis
  • Presented at the International Conference on Progressive Computational Intelligence; architected a unified healthcare platform
  • Designed engagement workflows that reduced clinic no-show rates via automated AI alerts and scheduling integration
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Technical Skills

Languages

Python (uv, ruff, mypy, pytest), SQL, Bash

ML & Deep Learning

PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, Scikit-learn

Computer Vision & NLP

OpenCV, YOLOv8, FFmpeg

Web & APIs

FastAPI, Streamlit, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic

Data Engineering

Apache Beam, Pandas, NumPy

Cloud & DevOps

GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker