Career

Where I have worked.

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Senior Data Scientist · Senior AI Engineer · Project Manager

Current
Pragnakalp Techlabs Pvt. Ltd · December 2025 — Present ·India

Leading end-to-end AI initiatives from concept to deployment. Architecting scalable solutions using Machine Learning and Generative AI, mentoring teams, and bridging research, engineering, and business goals.

  • Driving AI strategy across multi-team projects
  • Architecting agentic-AI and LLM-powered systems
  • Mentoring engineers and leading delivery
  • Building production-ready, scalable AI solutions

Founder & CEO · AI Trainer · Senior Data Scientist

Current
Yash K Patel Firm · October 2024 — Present ·Surat, India

Founder of an AI training and consulting practice. Designing and delivering advanced programs in AI, ML, and Generative AI. Building autonomous AI systems and guiding the lifecycle of AI products from idea to deployment.

  • Designed and delivered training cohorts on Agentic AI, Generative AI, and LLMs
  • Mentored 100+ professionals and students
  • Built custom AI solutions for client engagements
  • Established a curriculum-driven, research-informed teaching practice

Visiting Assistant Professor

Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology · March 2024 — Present ·Surat, India

Teaching advanced AI concepts including LLMs, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems to engineering students.

  • Designed graduate-level AI coursework
  • Mentored students on AI-driven capstone projects
  • Introduced industry best practices and emerging trends into curriculum

Visiting Assistant Professor

AURO University, Surat · July 2022 — Present ·Surat, India

Delivering advanced lectures on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI. Designing curricula that bridge academic foundations with real-world AI engineering.

  • Teaching ML, neural networks, transformers, LLMs, and Agentic AI
  • Mentoring graduate research and applied projects
  • Introduced Generative AI and Agentic AI modules to the curriculum

Artificial Intelligence Consultant

Inkey IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. · January 2025 — August 2025 ·India

Built, trained, and led a high-performing AI team. Managed multiple client engagements delivering AI-driven solutions, with deep specialization in Generative AI, GenAI chatbots, and intelligent automation.

  • Built and led an internal AI team
  • Delivered Generative AI projects for multiple clients
  • Designed advanced GenAI chatbots and automation systems
  • Translated business challenges into AI-powered solutions

CTO · Senior Data Scientist

Broader AI IT Solution LLP · January 2022 — July 2024 ·India

Defined and executed company technology roadmap. Led end-to-end AI/ML solution development from data engineering to deployment. Spearheaded research in Generative AI, Agentic AI, and predictive modeling.

  • Defined company-wide AI technology and innovation strategy
  • Led ML/AI solution development end-to-end
  • Spearheaded R&D in Generative AI and Agentic AI
  • Mentored and grew the data science team

Machine Learning Engineer

Rejoicehub Solutions · November 2021 — April 2022 ·India

Designed, developed, and deployed ML solutions across NLP, computer vision, and deep learning. Built data pipelines, performed feature engineering, and tuned models for production.

  • Developed and optimized ML models for predictive analytics
  • Built data pipelines for structured and unstructured data
  • Delivered NLP, CV, and deep learning systems to production
  • Conducted testing, validation, and performance tuning

Full Stack Developer

ItSoulInfotech · June 2018 — August 2019 ·India

Delivered full-stack web applications. The engineering foundations established here informed all later work in production AI systems.

  • Shipped multiple production web applications
  • Worked across frontend, backend, and database layers
  • Established foundational software engineering rigor

Web Development Intern

Technonic · January 2018 — May 2018 ·India

First professional role. Learned how software is actually built and shipped.

  • Contributed to client-facing web projects
  • Learned production code review and deployment processes