Pranav R Bhat — AI & Data Science Engineer, IEEE published researcher

hello world, i am

AI & Data Science Engineer

open to work
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01.

> about

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I specialize in bridging the gap between heavy machine-learning inference — local GPUs, LLM orchestration, audio processing — and seamless full-stack user experiences.

Two-time IEEE published researcher (first author, IEEE DISCOVER 2024) shipping production systems across HR-tech, agri-tech, and health-tech — from Whisper transcription pipelines and RAG-powered automation to multi-tenant SaaS backends and cloud-native deployment.

  • AI/ML & GenAI
  • Data Engineering
  • Full-Stack
  • DevOps & Cloud
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  • Multi-tenant HRMS platform @ TheDayHR
  • Open to new opportunities & collaborations
  • coffee_reserves ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ 74% (declining)

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Mangalore / Bengaluru

Karnataka, India · UTC+5:30

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02.

> skills

// humbled daily by all of the above

const languages = [

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C++
]

const ai_ml = [

  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • CatBoost
  • LightGBM
  • SHAP
  • HuggingFace
  • Computer Vision
]

const genai_llms = [

  • LangChain
  • ChromaDB
  • Ollama
  • RAG Pipelines
  • Llama 3.1
  • Gemini API
  • Whisper
  • Pyannote
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Fine-tuning
]

const automation_tooling = [

  • Playwright
  • FFmpeg
  • LiveKit
  • Google Business API
  • SMTP Automation
  • Linux Cron
  • Postman
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
]

const backend_apis = [

  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • OAuth2/JWT
  • Keycloak
]

const data_engineering = [

  • ETL Pipelines
  • BigQuery
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Shopify API
  • Odoo
]

const databases = [

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Supabase
  • ChromaDB
  • BigQuery
]

const frontend = [

  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Astro v6
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Redux
]

const devops_cloud = [

  • Docker Compose
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Nginx
  • Linux VPS
  • Monitoring
  • Firebase
  • Vercel
]
03.

> projects

~/water-crisis-platform

IEEE published

Urban water intelligence platform predicting shortage risk across Bengaluru from climate, reservoir, and groundwater data — Python ETL pipelines, LightGBM ensemble models, secure FastAPI serving, and an RBAC-enabled Next.js (T3) dashboard.

// 90.23% accuracy · IEEE ICIRCA 2026 · KSCST grant

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • LightGBM
  • Docker

~/deceptive-review-detection

IEEE published

End-to-end NLP pipeline that flags AI-generated fake reviews in large unstructured text corpora using TF-IDF feature engineering and deep learning classifiers.

// 92% accuracy · IEEE DISCOVER 2024 · first author

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • NLP
  • TF-IDF

~/ai-health-microservices

Scalable microservices health platform — Spring Boot services with Keycloak OAuth2 and RabbitMQ messaging, Gemini-powered multi-turn health recommendations, and a React/Redux frontend on AWS.

// Microservices · OAuth2 · async messaging

  • Spring Boot
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Keycloak
  • RabbitMQ
  • React

~/furever-adoption

Full-stack pet adoption platform with NextAuth role-based authentication, Prisma relational schema design, REST API routes, and SEO-optimized server-rendered listings.

// Full-stack · RBAC · SSR + SEO

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • NextAuth.js
04.

> experience

$ 5 internships → full-stack lead. Shipping across HR-tech, agri-tech, food-tech & health-tech.

  1. Software Architect / Full-Stack Lead @ UK Software Pvt. Ltd. (TheDayHR)

    Jun 2026 — Present
    • Architecting a secure, multi-tenant HRMS (Java, Spring Boot) isolating corporate client data with granular role-based access control.
    • Engineered fully automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) pushing production builds to Linux/Nginx servers via SSH.
    • Designed a state-driven React frontend orchestrating complex multi-step workflows — client onboarding and subscription management.
    • Built resilient REST APIs optimized for partial updates and strict data integrity, with JWT authentication and DLT-compliant SMS/email engines for alerts and OTPs.

  2. Software Engineering Intern (AI & Full-Stack) @ Unique Hire

    May 2026 — Jun 2026
    • Engineering HireGuard — an end-to-end interview capture and analysis platform built on Next.js, FastAPI, and Supabase.
    • Integrated LiveKit real-time video rooms and egress, using FFmpeg to extract audio automatically for downstream ML analysis.
    • Built a dual-path transcription pipeline with local GPU-accelerated models (Whisper Large v3 Turbo, Pyannote 3.1) and Groq cloud APIs for speaker-aware transcripts.
    • Designed strict JSON-enforced LLM prompting pipelines (Groq LLaMA) evaluating candidate credibility, generating performance metrics, and flagging behavioral signals.

  3. AI & Automation Engineer Intern @ Organic Mandya

    Mar 2026 — May 2026
    • Audited and fully migrated the production ETL infrastructure (BigQuery, Shopify API, Odoo, cron jobs) to an in-house Linux VPS, validated end-to-end with Git-based version control.
    • Built a REST-integrated review management system (Google Business API + Playwright) automating brand-authentic replies via RAG — Llama 3.1:8b served through Ollama with a ChromaDB vector store — plus SMTP escalation for flagged reviews.
    • Designed and deployed know.organicmandya.com (Astro v6, Tailwind CSS v4): 15+ content categories, full-text search, SEO, dark mode, and UTM analytics tracking.
    • Onboarded two team members on Git workflows, Claude Code, and AI-assisted development practices.

  4. DevOps Engineer Intern @ UK Software Pvt. Ltd. (TheDayHR)

    Dec 2025 — Feb 2026
    • Built GitHub Actions workflows automating build, test, and deployment steps, reducing manual release effort for the engineering team.
    • Deployed and managed Docker-based application environments on cloud infrastructure, handling environment configuration and server administration.
    • Set up application monitoring to track uptime and proactively surface issues across day-to-day operations.

  5. Data Science Intern @ Personifwy (via 1stop)

    Jul 2025 — Sep 2025
    • Built an end-to-end hate-speech text classification pipeline covering tokenization, TF-IDF, word embeddings, SVM, and Logistic Regression on real-world social media data.
    • Developed a heart-failure mortality predictor using XGBoost, CatBoost, SHAP explainability, SMOTE class-imbalance handling, and rigorous cross-validation.
    • Ran deep-dive EDA on the Home Credit Default Risk dataset (300K+ rows), performing statistical anomaly detection and translating findings into business risk insights.

  6. Software Developer Intern @ Krishitantra

    Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
    • Designed and built a Django REST API backend for a crop-analysis platform, integrating real-time computer vision inference endpoints serving a React frontend.
    • Engineered Python image-processing pipelines estimating agricultural leaf nitrogen with 92% accuracy, and automated scientific report generation from the results.
05.

> creds

publications

  • Probabilistic Multi-Horizon Urban Water Crisis Prediction using Ensemble ML

    Jun 2026

    Co-Author · IEEE ICIRCA 2026 (7th ICRICA), Coimbatore · IEEE SMC Society · ISBN 979-8-3315-5939-7

  • Identifying Deceptive AI Reviews: A Machine Learning ApproachOct 2024

    First Author · IEEE DISCOVER 2024, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru · IEEE Xplore

awards

  • Research Project Grant — KSCST, Government of Karnataka

    2026

    Competitive government grant for the AI-powered urban water crisis forecasting project.

  • Commendation Prize 1 — WENAMITAA, EXPRO 2025-26

    2026

    Top project at the Dept. of AI & DS annual exposition, NMAMIT.

  • Certificate of Presentation — IEEE ICIRCA 2026

    Jun 2026

    IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society · probabilistic urban water crisis prediction.

education

B.Tech, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

2022 — 2026

NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte — Karkala, Karnataka · CGPA: 7.19. Coursework: ML, Deep Learning, NLP, DBMS, DSA, Cloud Computing.

Pre-University (PCMC)

2020 — 2022

Alva's Pre-University College, Moodubidri — 90%.

certification

Machine Learning Specialization

Sep 2025

Stanford Online & DeepLearning.AI — Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Advanced Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning.

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affiliations_languages

  • Student Member — IEEE Computer Society
  • Member — ACM India Chapter
  • English · Fluent
  • Kannada · Native
  • Hindi · Intermediate
  • Japanese · Learning
06.

> contact

$ echo "let's build something"

Got a data problem or a model to ship? Let's talk.

I'm open to full-time roles, research collaborations, and interesting ML/AI projects. Based in Mangalore / Bengaluru — my inbox is always open.

[email protected]