Applied AI Engineer & Researcher

Anchit Shrivastava

I build AI systems that survive contact with production.

Fine-tuning large language models on distributed GPU clusters, designing retrieval-augmented and agentic pipelines, and closing the loop with human feedback so systems keep improving after launch.

Assistant Manager & AI Lead at Joget · Founder of Ekasmi, Dhaga & Prodingy · Pune, India

Anchit Shrivastava outdoors on a warm evening in a garden, arms crossed and smiling, wearing glasses and a black patterned t-shirt, with soft string-light bokeh glowing behind him.
5+
years in production AI
15+
AI systems shipped
195+
Google Scholar citations
2
peer-reviewed publications
1
patent granted
8+
industries served

About

From research to production, and back.

My research journey began at Chitkara University with two peer-reviewed papers and a granted patent for improving the everyday experience of deaf and hard-of-hearing users. I then applied data science to social impact at the Sabudh Foundation, mentoring the next cohort of data scientists along the way.

At Tatras Data I led teams of 5–20 delivering ML systems for global clients, and co-taught a graduate-level data science course at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. Today I lead all of Joget's AI initiatives — integrating scalable LLM technology into an enterprise no-code / low-code platform with a lean two-person team. I am now seeking to ground this production-engineering depth in rigorous graduate research.

Research Interests

Where I want to go deeper

Directions I am eager to pursue in graduate research — grounded in problems I have already met in production.

01

Efficient adaptation of large language models

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT/LoRA), distributed training (DeepSpeed, NCCL), and inference optimization (vLLM).

02

Learning from human feedback

Contrastive learning on user corrections, retrieval re-ranking, hallucination reduction, and grounded evaluation of model outputs.

03

Retrieval-augmented generation & agentic systems

Tool use, multi-step planning, and the reliability engineering needed to run autonomous agents in enterprise production.

04

ML systems & MLOps

Drift detection, automated retraining, and real-time streaming pipelines that keep deployed models healthy.

05

Applied NLP & computer vision

Document intelligence, large-scale media analysis, and vision pipelines for structured extraction from unstructured data.

Experience

Six years, four hats

Leading AI teams and shipping machine-learning systems for global clients.

Joget, Inc.

Mar 2024 – Present

Assistant Manager & AI LeadKuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Hybrid

Previously Lead AI Specialist & Architect (Mar 2024 – Dec 2025)

  • Lead all of Joget's AI initiatives — the "Joget Intelligence" suite in Joget DX 9 (AI Designer, AI Composer, AI Agent Builder, AI Assistant, AI Form Fill) — with a lean team of two.
  • Lead the "Vibe Composition" initiative, a Joget-coined approach where AI interprets business intent and assembles complete enterprise apps from pre-validated, governed components (no raw code generation); embedded conversational AI in all five platform builders.
  • LLM-powered app generation cut app build time ~70% for citizen developers and tripled the self-service rate.
  • Fine-tuned Llama 3, Mixtral 8x7B, and Cohere Command R on distributed GPU clusters (DeepSpeed, NCCL/Gloo, Flash Attention, PEFT); served via vLLM + Celery + Redis on AWS EKS with advanced RAG over live business context.
  • Built an adaptive agentic assistant that learns from user feedback via contrastive-loss retraining (Ray, Redis, SageMaker), with a weekly auto-refreshed knowledge base that reduced hallucinations.
  • Built the AI Agent Builder on a self-implemented LangChain/LlamaIndex-style orchestration architecture, plus an AI Form Fill Element that populates structured forms from raw text via LLM extraction with guardrails.
  • Shipped an AI Project Manager, automated release-notes and knowledge-base generation, and an automatic video→documentation pipeline (Whisper + AWS Transcribe, LaTeX output).
  • Plugins run in production at Fortune 500 companies; Joget was recognized in Everest Group's Innovation Watch for Generative AI in Software Development alongside Google and Meta.

Ekasmi

2026 – Present

Founder & Lead AI ArchitectRemote · Global
  • Founded an applied-AI studio serving clients across the US, Europe, Singapore, and India — spanning fintech, healthcare, legal, HR tech, FMCG, and media.
  • Built an AI voice front desk for a Houston healthcare practice-management firm that fully automates ~70% of inbound calls with 24/7 booking via intelligent IVR.
  • Delivered real-time crypto portfolio intelligence, contract & invoice intelligence (~80% less manual review), and two AI products taken 0→live (hospitality job-matching and a mutual-fund advisor).

Tatras Data

Apr 2021 – Mar 2024

Associate Data ScientistIndia · Full-time

Previously Junior Data Scientist (Apr 2021 – Mar 2023)

  • Led teams of 5–20 across multiple client engagements as project scope grew.
  • Led ChatFactory for PathFactory (client) end to end — a production RAG system transforming B2B content consumption with funnel-stage accelerators.
  • Built a News & Journalism Analysis platform for a government initiative — 300K+ articles from 160+ Indian news sources with custom NER, sentiment, and topic modeling (GuidedLDA, BERTopic); mapped 10K+ authors and reached out to 6K+.
  • Trained decoder-only LLMs from scratch on multi-GPU DeepSpeed setups and advised clients on LLM costing and use-cases — pre-dating the AI leadership role at Joget.
  • Delivered computer-vision influencer discovery for a global F&B corporation (fine-tuned ResNet50/VGG19; 500+ qualified micro-influencers per region) and B2B account intelligence with SpaCy/SPERT extraction and NetworkX knowledge graphs.

Sabudh Foundation

Jul 2020 – Jul 2024

MentorIndia · Part-time

Previously Data Scientist Intern (Jul 2020 – Dec 2020)

  • Applied deep learning (TensorFlow) to data-for-social-impact problems and mentored aspiring data scientists across a four-year involvement.
  • Ran political-discourse and misinformation analyses whose findings were cited by Al Jazeera in reporting on Indian politics and media.
  • Built an Electoral Bond data analysis later drawn on by The Reporters' Collective in its investigative reporting.
  • Mentored a student team building an Indian Sign Language translation system (YOLO/SSD, OpenCV) — extending the accessibility focus of my granted patent for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.

Selected Projects

Systems shipped, not slideware

A selection of production AI systems across Joget, Ekasmi, and Tatras Data.

Joget

LLM Enterprise App Generator

~70% faster app builds · 3× self-service

Natural-language business intent compiled into complete enterprise applications on a global no-code platform. Fine-tuned open LLMs on multi-GPU clusters; served with vLLM on AWS EKS.

LLM fine-tuningDeepSpeedvLLMRAG
Joget

Adaptive Agentic Assistant

Improves weekly from human feedback

Agentic assistant that learns from thumbs-up/down corrections via contrastive-loss retraining, with fine-tuned retrievers and a drift-aware, weekly auto-refreshed knowledge base on SageMaker + Ray.

Contrastive learningAgentsMLOps
Founder venture

Dhaga

Every thread, remembered.

Privacy-first networking-memory app: captures contacts from business cards, QR codes, and voice notes into an event-based knowledge graph with semantic search and AI-drafted follow-ups. Local-first and open-source (AGPL), built on Postgres + pgvector.

Founder ventureKnowledge graphpgvectorLocal-first
Founder venture

Prodingy

Where India's next startup finds its first believer.

AI-powered platform connecting Indian startup founders with VCs — investors interrogate pitch decks through live AI conversations (powered by Claude), with founder analytics and a human-verified VC network.

Founder ventureAI agentsClaudeStartups
Ekasmi

AI Voice Front Desk

~70% of inbound calls fully automated

Voice agents handling appointment booking end to end for a Houston healthcare practice-management firm — 24/7 coverage through intelligent IVR, with human escalation only when needed.

Voice AIAgentsHealthcare
Ekasmi

Crypto Portfolio Intelligence

Real-time ensemble, drift-triggered retrain

Kafka + Spark streaming pipelines feeding an ensemble of LSTM, Prophet, GluonTS, temporal CNN, ARIMA/SARIMA and XGBoost with SHAP/LIME, plus FinBERT sentiment and drift-triggered auto-retraining.

Time seriesKafka / SparkExplainability
Ekasmi

Contract & Invoice Intelligence

~80% less manual document review

Document-understanding pipeline: LayoutLM + YOLO for structure, Tesseract OCR for scans, and fine-tuned LLMs for extraction — with UpTrain guardrails on outputs.

Document AILayoutLMGuardrails
Ekasmi

Hospitality Job-Matching Platform

0 → live product

Full-stack AI product built from scratch: an AI fit-scoring engine matching candidates to roles with a slide-to-apply UX and employer pipelines.

Recommender systemsFull-stack AI
Ekasmi

AI Mutual-Fund Advisor

Goal-based fund scoring, 0 → live

Recommendation platform scoring funds against individual goals, risk appetite, and time horizon — advisor-grade guidance without an advisor.

FinTechRecommender systems
Tatras Data

ChatFactory for PathFactory

Production RAG for B2B content

Retrieval-augmented system transforming how B2B buyers consume content, with funnel-stage accelerators — led the end-to-end implementation for the client.

RAGNLPB2B
Tatras Data

News & Journalism Analysis

300K+ articles · 160+ sources

Media-intelligence platform for a government initiative: 300K+ articles across 160+ Indian news sources with custom NER, sentiment, and guided topic modeling (GuidedLDA, BERTopic); mapped 10K+ authors and reached out to 6K+.

NLPTopic modelingKnowledge graphs

Publications & Patent

Peer-reviewed & patented

195+ citations across two peer-reviewed publications on Google Scholar.

IOP · J. Phys.2021· 160+ citations

A Systematic Review on Extreme Programming

A. Shrivastava, I. Jaggi, N. Katoch, D. Gupta, S. Gupta

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1969 012046 (IRMAS 2021), IOP Publishing

DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1969/1/012046

Patent · Granted

Wearable assistance device for deaf users

A wearable device that classifies ambient sounds, alerts deaf and hard-of-hearing users to warning sounds through vibration, and live-translates speech to text.

Granted — Indian Patent

Application No. 202011032976

Filed 31 Jul 2020

Recognition

Everest Group Innovation Watch 2025

Joget was recognized in Everest Group's Innovation Watch for Generative AI in Software Development — positioned alongside industry leaders including Google and Meta. Anchit leads the AI initiatives behind this recognition.

Everest Group Innovation Watch 2025 chart for Generative AI in Software Development, plotting Joget among industry names including Google, Meta, GitHub and OpenAI.

Teaching & Talks

Sharing the work

Graduate-level teaching, mentoring, and talks on large language models.

Teaching & Mentoring

Co-InstructorIDC410: Advanced Data Science

Jan – Apr 2023

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali

Co-taught a graduate-level data science course alongside faculty at one of India's premier national research institutes — lectures and hands-on labs on machine learning in practice.

Co-InstructorData Science

May – Jul 2023

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Schools of Specialised Excellence, Delhi

Delivered a data science program to high-school students through the Sabudh Foundation outreach initiative.

Invited Speaker & Guest LecturerAI & Data Science

Chitkara University · BML Munjal University · Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University (LSR–DU) · Punjabi University Centre for Emerging & Innovative Technology (PUCEIT)

Invited talks, guest lectures, and hands-on sessions on AI and data science across universities and colleges.

MentorData Science for Social Impact

May 2021 – Jul 2024

Sabudh Foundation

Mentored aspiring data scientists on deep learning and applied ML for social-impact projects.

Talks

Joget DX 9 AI Capabilities

Now & Future 2025 Conference & Exhibition, Malaysia

Presented Joget DX 9's AI capabilities; the Joget booth was visited by the Speaker of Malaysia's House of Representatives.

Awards

Recognized by peers and leadership

JogetSep 2025

Pinnacle Achievement Award 2025

JogetSep 2025

Rising Star Award 2025

Joget2024 – 2025

Only employee nominated across all six award categories, two years running

Tatras Data2022 – 2023

3× Employee of the Financial Quarter

Tatras Data2021 – 2023

4× Employee of the Month

Chitkara UniversityJun 2020

Most Innovative Project Idea — Sahayak Virtual Hackathon 1.0

Technical Skills

The toolkit

Languages
PythonTypeScript / JavaScriptSQL
LLMs & Deep Learning
PyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceDeepSpeedPEFT / LoRAFlash AttentionvLLMLangChainRAGContrastive / feedback learning
ML & Data Science
Forecasting (Prophet, GluonTS, LSTM, XGBoost)NLP (spaCy, SPERT, BERTopic, FinBERT)Computer vision (ResNet, YOLO, LayoutLM)SHAP / LIME
Infrastructure & MLOps
AWS (EKS, SageMaker)KubernetesDockerRayKafkaSparkRedisCeleryElasticsearchMLflow
Product
Next.js / ReactFastAPITailwind CSS

Education

Foundations

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Chitkara University

2018 – 2022 · CGPA 9.07 / 10