Neurosymbolic AI • Research to Production • Deterministic Agents

I take neurosymbolic AI agents from research to production — deterministic by design.

Full-stack AI scientist with 7+ years and a Dual Degree in M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics + B.E. (Hons.) Electrical & Electronics — I fuse neural models with symbolic structure (rule-based logic, knowledge graphs, ontologies, evaluation harnesses) to make agentic AI systems deterministic, auditable, and production-safe. Across banking, healthcare, and enterprise I own problems end-to-end — framing, research, architecture, deployment, and adoption.

  • 7+ years across banking, healthcare & enterprise AI
  • Rule-based logic, knowledge graphs & ontologies wrapped around GenAI, CV, NLP, speech, and RL
  • ₹30 Cr/year (~$3.6M) measurable impact
Bengaluru, India
SS
7+ years experience
95–99% production metrics

Current focus

Banking, financial services & enterprises
7+ years experience
₹30 Cr/yr measurable impact (~$3.6M)
95–99% production accuracy, shipped models
5 companies, end-to-end ownership

About

Neurosymbolic AI, built for determinism.

I'm Shashank, a full-stack AI scientist with a Dual Degree in M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics + B.E. (Hons.) Electrical & Electronics from BITS Pilani. My throughline is neurosymbolic AI — pairing neural models with symbolic structure (rule-based logic, knowledge graphs, ontologies, evaluation harnesses, agentic control loops) so agentic systems behave predictably in production, not just in the lab. Over 7+ years across banking, healthcare, and enterprise, I've shipped nearly every class of AI problem — GenAI (LLM fine-tuning with LoRA, agentic prompt optimization, Graph & Agentic RAG, multimodal decisioning, synthetic data via multi-model consensus), computer vision, NLP, speech, document AI, time series forecasting, recommendation, and reinforcement learning.

I own problems end-to-end — framing, research, architecture, deployment, and org-wide adoption — and I measure success the same way the business does: in production metrics and delivered impact.

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Research to production

Ambiguous problems taken from framing through deployment and org-wide adoption, not just notebooks.

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Neurosymbolic by design

Neural models paired with symbolic structure — rule-based logic, knowledge graphs, ontologies — so agentic systems behave the same way twice, not just most of the time.

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Full-stack ownership

Android, web, backend, and ML in one hand — I ship the whole surface, not just the model.

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Measurable impact

Every project tied to a concrete production metric — recall, accuracy, latency, revenue.

Experience

Seven years, five companies, one thread: ship it.

Sep 2024 – Jun 2026

Senior Data Scientist · IDFC First Bank

vKYC AI — Research to Production

  • Owned the problem framing through live deployment for RBI-compliant video-KYC, researching and productionizing a suite of biometric & anti-fraud models: speaker validation (95% recall), deepfake detection (85% recall), multi-face detection (100% recall), and PAN/PVC document verification (99% accuracy).
  • Designed the fraud-signal pipeline to run inline on live vKYC calls rather than as after-the-fact review, so agents and auditors get a risk verdict within the call window instead of a batch flag hours later.
  • Integrated Deepgram/Greylabs speech-to-text with transcript-based LLM validation, replacing manual call review with an automated pass that flags policy violations, script deviations, and consent-language gaps for human audit. Impact: 3,500–5,000 calls/day audited, SLA 15 min → 4 min.
  • Worked cross-functionally with compliance and audit teams to keep the model suite aligned to evolving RBI video-KYC guidelines, and instrumented recall/precision dashboards per model so drift could be caught before it reached production SLAs.

Document Authenticity & Forgery Detection — Research Lead

  • Led research into generative approaches (GANs, VAEs, autoencoders) for detecting tampered and synthetically forged identity/financial documents, benchmarking reconstruction-error and latent-space anomaly signals against real fraud cases sourced with the risk team.
  • Designed a hybrid unsupervised/rule-based detection method — combining generative anomaly scoring with deterministic forensic checks (metadata, font, and layout consistency) — built jointly with the forensics & risk-containment teams so outputs mapped directly onto existing investigator workflows.

Document AI Extraction Platform (GenAI)

  • Architected a three-tier agentic prompt-optimization system — generator, evaluator, reflector — that iteratively rewrites and scores its own prompts against held-out extraction cases, converging to 98%+ production accuracy on multi-value entity extraction across banking documents without manual prompt tuning.
  • Built synthetic ground truth via multi-model consensus and LoRA fine-tuned Mistral, Qwen, GPT, and Llama variants against it, closing the labeled-data gap that would otherwise have required large-scale manual annotation.
  • Established the LLM evaluation & benchmarking harness that now governs model selection bank-wide — standardizing how new open- and closed-source models are scored before they're approved for any GenAI use case. Impact: ₹30 Cr/year (~$3.6M/year).
May 2023 – Jul 2024

Senior AI Scientist · StatusNeo Consulting

Legal Intelligence — Chat with Contracts (AT&T)

  • Built a GenAI contract-understanding platform with chatbot Q&A over a Milvus + MongoDB store, with dynamic chunking and embedding pipelines tuned to contract-length documents rather than fixed-size splits, so retrieval stayed accurate across short amendments and hundred-page master agreements alike.
  • Engineered Graph RAG on top of an extracted contract ontology — entities and clause relationships — for relationship-aware retrieval, and Agentic RAG for multi-hop query decomposition and self-correcting retrieval when the first-pass answer didn't hold up against the source clauses.
  • Impact: automated contract amendment tracking that previously required manual legal review, letting the legal team query contract history and clause changes directly instead of re-reading redlines.

Claims Audit AI (Carelon)

  • Led end-to-end delivery of a claims-audit platform for a major healthcare payer — owning the document-AI pipelines and annotation frameworks that turned scanned claim attachments into structured, audit-ready records.
  • Built a 96% F1 attachment classifier to route incoming claim documents by type before downstream extraction, and multimodal LLM decisioning (GPT-4, Falcon, Vicuna) to adjudicate reimbursement eligibility at scale, replacing manual first-pass review by claims analysts.
Mar 2021 – May 2023

Application Developer · JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Deployed a multi-class expense categorization model (F1 88%) and liquidity/cash-flow/Nostro account forecasting (LSTM, Prophet, ARIMA) behind a FastAPI service layer, giving treasury teams same-day forecasts instead of relying on manually maintained spreadsheets.
  • Migrated the Sales Dashboard onto JPMC's BRIE data lake, designing and building a custom ETL pipeline to replace the legacy data path — cut dashboard query latency by 50% and removed a recurring source of stale-data incidents.
  • Led user lifecycle & subscription systems and global payment API integrations on a serverless AWS stack, owning the systems end-to-end from design through on-call support. Impact: revenue +15% (~$1,100/day).
Mar 2020 – Mar 2021

Software Developer · Talentica Software

  • Led activation/subscription systems for a user lifecycle & payments platform, owning the logic that moved a user from signup through trial to a paid subscription state.
  • Built and integrated global payment API connections on a serverless AWS stack, handling multi-currency processing and retry/reconciliation logic so failed payment webhooks couldn't silently desync a user's subscription state.
Jul 2019 – Mar 2020

Software Developer · Reflexis Systems

  • Built reinforcement-learning models to auto-generate open shifts for retail workforce scheduling, replacing rule-based shift creation with a policy that adapted to store-level demand patterns.
  • Built a collaborative-filtering recommendation engine (cosine similarity, Top-N) to match available shifts to the employees most likely to pick them up, reducing unfilled shifts for store managers.
During college — Dual Degree, BITS Pilani (2014 – 2019)
Jun 2018 – Jan 2020

Research Consultant · WorldQuant

  • Formulated quantitative financial models using statistics, stochastic methods, and portfolio-management theory to generate trading alphas for the firm, working independently against WorldQuant's internal alpha-testing framework.
  • Implemented statistical and basic stochastic models to search for and validate signal ideas, iterating against historical market data before submission.
  • Formulated 40+ alphas that passed into production, feeding into the investment policies the firm built on top of its alpha pool.
Jan 2019 – Jun 2019

Intern · Vitor Health

  • Developed and integrated Android modules/libraries for BLE communication with connected medical devices — ECG monitors, weight scales, and blood-pressure cuffs — into the company's application.
  • Revamped the app's Bluetooth settings page to make device pairing and reconnection more reliable for end users.
  • Produced two explanatory videos for DHAs covering the different tests conducted by Vitor, used to onboard health-agent users to the device workflows.
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018

Software Engineer Intern · munshiG Pvt Ltd

  • Built an end-to-end dual-user app to digitalize the company's business processes — one side for the business team, one for handling clients and employees — covering data collection end to end.
  • Integrated Location API, Speech API, and Google Maps API against a Firebase backend, and implemented a multithreaded system to keep data collection responsive under concurrent field use.
  • Worked on table extraction from images of dot-matrix-printed bills, and contributed to the architecture design for the company's Mark 4 product, which adopted the same architecture as the Business Development app.
May 2016 – Jul 2016

Control System Intern · Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

  • Studied the control system model for the insulation of electric cranes at SAIL's Rourkela plant, an early exposure to industrial control systems ahead of the software/ML work that followed.

Selected work

Case studies from research to production.

Agentic prompt-optimization architecture: generator, evaluator, and reflector loop
Neurosymbolic · Deterministic Agents IDFC First Bank

Agentic Document Extraction Platform

A three-tier agentic prompt-optimization system — generator, evaluator, reflector — converging to 98%+ accuracy on multi-value entity extraction across banking documents, without manual prompt tuning.

  • LoRA fine-tuning: Mistral, Qwen, GPT, Llama
  • Multi-model synthetic consensus data
  • ₹30 Cr/year (~$3.6M/year) impact
Biometrics · Anti-Fraud IDFC First Bank

vKYC Biometric & Anti-Fraud Suite

RBI-compliant video-KYC models taken from problem framing to live deployment: speaker validation, deepfake detection, multi-face detection, and document verification.

  • 95% speaker validation recall
  • 100% multi-face detection recall
  • SLA cut 15 min → 4 min
Ontology & Graph RAG StatusNeo · AT&T

Legal Intelligence — Chat with Contracts

A GenAI contract-understanding platform with chatbot Q&A and semantic search — entities and relationships extracted into a contract ontology for relationship-aware retrieval (Graph RAG) and Agentic RAG for query decomposition and self-correction.

  • Milvus + MongoDB semantic search
  • Dynamic chunking & embedding pipelines
  • Automated contract amendment tracking
Document AI · Multimodal StatusNeo · Carelon

Claims Audit AI

An end-to-end claims-audit platform for a major healthcare payer — document-AI pipelines, annotation frameworks, and multimodal LLM decisioning for reimbursement adjudication at scale.

  • 96% F1 attachment classifier
  • Multimodal decisioning: GPT-4, Falcon, Vicuna
  • Production QA gates on entity extraction
Full-Stack · CRM & Payroll Client Project

Nityarth — CRM & Payroll Platform

A production CRM and payroll web application built end-to-end for a client — SPA frontend, API backend, and a full CI/CD pipeline shipping every change straight to production.

  • Custom domain with automated HTTPS
  • Jenkins-driven CI/CD deployment pipeline
  • Live at nityarth.in

Skills

The stack behind the impact.

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GenAI & LLMs

GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral · LoRA/QLoRA/RLHF fine-tuning & prompting

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Agentic & Neurosymbolic Systems

Multi-agent systems, MCP · RAG, Graph RAG, Agentic RAG · ontology & knowledge-graph design · rule-based hybrid reasoning · LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex

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ML & deep learning

PyTorch · NLP, computer vision, multimodal transformers · document AI

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Infra & MLOps

Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD · AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure, Vertex AI · Spark, Hadoop, SQL/NoSQL

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Languages & systems

Python, Java · system design · vector DBs & semantic search (Milvus, FAISS)

Beyond the lab

Range, off the clock.

Outside of shipping models, I write, make films, sketch, compete, and travel for months at a time. Different disciplines, same instinct: frame the problem, commit, finish the thing.

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Competitor

Cricket, football, badminton, MMA.

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Voice

Public speaking and oratory.

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Musician

Guitar, mouth organ, and a bit of singing.

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Traveller

Long-form travel — months on end, off the beaten schedule.

Writing

Notes, essays, and half-formed arguments.

Ignorance might be a bliss, but half-knowledge is indeed dangerous

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Ignorance might be a bliss, but half-knowledge is indeed dangerous

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