Karan Shingde
K-Means Karan

Professional Journey

Building systems, leading teams, and pushing the boundaries of AI.

Lead AI Engineer

May 2024 - Present
AiHello (Remote)
  • Led a remote team of AI/ML engineers to deliver 10–12 production features across Amazon PPC automation and GenAI initiatives.
  • Architected autonomous agent-based systems for e-commerce optimization, processing ~230GB of historical campaign data.
  • Built bid and sales forecasting pipelines using time-series ML models to support daily pricing and budget decisions.
  • Developed LSTM-based forecasting and reinforcement learning workflows for feedback-driven bid and price optimization.
  • Fine-tuned LLMs for AiHello’s customer support chatbot, automating ~60–70% of incoming support queries.
  • Integrated RAG-based workflows (LangChain + vector search) to improve response accuracy and reduce hallucinations.
  • Standardized end-to-end ML pipelines using Docker, CI/CD, and MLOps best practices across teams.
  • Participated in ML hiring, interviewing candidates and contributing to research direction and technical decisions.
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AI Researcher & Technical Writer

Dec 2023 - May 2024
Superteams.ai (Freelance)
  • Researched and published deep-dive technical articles on Generative AI, RAG architectures, and vector databases.
  • Translated complex research papers and whitepapers into practical, implementation-focused developer guides.
  • Created content adopted by the AI developer community, reaching thousands of readers.
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Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2023 - May 2024
DataNNovite Sol (Contract)
  • Built and deployed ML models for real-estate price prediction, owning end-to-end MLOps pipelines.
  • Developed production RAG systems for invoice intelligence, reducing manual document lookup by ~50%.
  • Contributed to open-source NLP and computer vision research initiatives.
  • Trained YOLO-based models for automated document verification workflows.
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Computer Vision Intern

Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Netra AI
  • Developed proof-of-concept AI applications using LangChain and OpenAI APIs.
  • Built data preprocessing and augmentation pipelines for computer vision datasets to accelerate experimentation.
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Data Science Intern

Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Markytics
  • Built financial analytics dashboards using Django and SQL to support data-driven decision-making.
  • Optimized backend database queries for large datasets, improving dashboard performance and response times.
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