AI Engineer · Chicago

Vikram
Harikrishnan

AI Engineer building production ML systems and automated workflows that accelerate model development. I ship predictive models and scalable systems with Python, PyTorch, and cloud infrastructure.

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MS Computer Science · University of Illinois Chicago '26

About

I'm an AI engineer working at the intersection of computer vision, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI. I like taking research-grade models and turning them into systems that actually run.

Focus

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI & LLM Automation
Computer Vision & Transformers

Stack

Python · PyTorch
LangChain · ChromaDB · Ollama
Vision Transformers · MLflow

Certified

ML Practitioner
TensorFlow Developer
Flutter Development

Experience

2025 - Present

Machine Learning Engineer

University of Illinois Chicago

LDCT lung cancer risk modeling with Vision Transformers on HPC; clinical survival baselines contributing to a JCO publication; on-prem LLM pipeline for Lung-RADS extraction (+80% radiology throughput).
2023 - 2024

Full Stack Engineer

Finvisage · Bengaluru

Built FX market-data ingestion (asyncio, Flask, Redis, PostgreSQL) cutting p95 read latency 120 ms → 24 ms; led Flutter trading app for 10,000+ field agents.
2022

AI Engineer

Applied Data Finance · Chennai

OCR + OpenAI pipeline for paystubs, tax returns, and bank statements. Doubled ingestion rate and cut manual loan processing 85%, with extraction guardrails.

Projects

Publication

Hybrid Computer Vision Model to Predict Lung Cancer in Diverse Populations

JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics ↗

Care Navigator

Multi-tenant RAG for health-benefits Q&A with LangChain, ChromaDB, and Ollama, metadata filtering, Redis caching, and Minikube/KEDA deployment.

Python · RAG

Filesystem MCP Server

Local Model Context Protocol server exposing sandboxed file tools over stdio. Path canonicalization and symlink checks keep clients inside allowed roots.

Python · MCP