Five years building AI systems that run in production — from neural networks on microcontrollers to agentic AI platforms for enterprise finance. Role by role, below.
Kearney — Senior AI Consultant, Analytics & Information Management
Bangalore · Feb 2026 – present
Building AI-powered analytics for enterprise finance and supply chain. Recent work includes an agentic analytics platform where executives ask business questions in plain language and get governed KPIs, charts and narratives — spanning SAP data integration, LangGraph-based AI orchestration, FastAPI services, and KPI reconciliation from source system to dashboard across areas like margin, cost-to-serve, working capital and receivables. Also engineered the knowledge layer of a process-intelligence platform that turns recorded business-process videos into structured documentation and searchable organisational knowledge: async job orchestration, semantic chunking and embedding, and hybrid retrieval combining vector search with governed SQL.
Solum — AI/CV & ML Systems Engineer
Bangalore · Aug 2024 – Jan 2026
Designed and operationalised multi-camera shelf-vision pipelines for retail (YOLOv7/v9, TensorRT, LightGlue) delivering sub-200 ms responses at 15–20 FPS. Built hot-reload RFID ML-serving APIs integrated with Event Hubs and MongoDB, and an LLM-powered log-intelligence framework — fuzzy clustering, ReAct-based LangChain agents, locally hosted LLaMA — that brought log investigation down from hours to seconds.
Sony — AI Consultant
Bangalore · Feb 2023 – Dec 2023
Built and optimised custom object-detection and segmentation models for Sony’s embedded devices, including deployment on IMX500 smart cameras, and accelerated delivery through transfer-learning workflows that cut training time and integration effort.
Ignitarium — AI Engineer
Bangalore · Aug 2022 – Jul 2024
Led architectural refinement of the FastestDet neural network — a 35% accuracy improvement — and deployed real-time detection models on Renesas microcontrollers. Designed RGB-D reconstruction and binocular vision pipelines for defect detection, and developed domain-specific LLM Q&A systems supporting railway, telecom and solar industries. Joined as AI Intern (Jun 2021 – Jul 2022) before moving to the engineering role.
Earlier
Coimbatore · Aug 2020 – Dec 2021
Freelance teaching assistant alongside postgraduate study.
Education
- M.Tech, Data Science — Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore (2022)
- B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering — Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore (2019)
Code
Selected code and open tools will be published at github.com/phvpavankumar soon.