Mumbai, India — Portfolio 2026

AadishGotekar.

AI / ML engineeringDeep learning & data scienceProduction delivery

Currently
Forward Deployed Engineer, Tirumala Industries
Focus
LLM agents · RAG · computer vision · predictive analytics
Record
5× hackathon winner incl. SIH 2024
  • Smart India Hackathon 2024Winner · 86,000+ teams
  • MoveAI HackathonWinner · 2,000+ teams
  • Hack4Change@CharchaWinner · National
  • Code4AIWinner · 150+ teams
  • SyntechXathonWinner · 100+ teams

01 — Trajectory

Where the work has happened

  1. May 2026 — PresentFull-timeNow

    Tirumala Industries

    Forward Deployed Engineer

    • Developing and deploying AI-driven solutions for manufacturing and industrial operations: process automation, predictive analytics, computer vision and operational optimisation.
    • Integrated software with industrial machinery, sensors and production infrastructure to enable real-time monitoring across 30+ machines and data-driven decisions on the floor.
    • Deployed predictive maintenance models that cut unplanned downtime by ~20% and a computer-vision inspection pipeline running at 95%+ defect-detection accuracy.
    • Work directly with operations and management teams to find inefficiencies and ship technology that lifts productivity and resource utilisation.
  2. Oct 2025 — Apr 2026Pune

    Scorg International

    Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

    • Delivered AI/ML solutions across 6+ enterprise client engagements: LLM applications, AI agents, RAG systems, NLP pipelines, predictive models and intelligent automation workflows.
    • Designed end-to-end AI solutions — data processing, model experimentation, evaluation, inference, API integration and deployment — using modern ML and generative-AI frameworks.
    • Improved RAG retrieval relevance by ~35% through chunking, hybrid search and evaluation harnesses; automation workflows cut manual processing time by up to 50%.
    • Collaborated directly with client engineering teams to identify AI use cases, prototype in days rather than weeks, and integrate production-ready systems into existing enterprise workflows.
  3. Apr 2025 — Sep 2025Remoteresearch

    IIT Patna

    AI Research Intern

    • Researched knowledge distillation methods in large language models to optimize model efficiency.
    • Explored teacher-to-student transfer techniques that preserve performance while shrinking models.
    • Implemented and evaluated multiple distillation approaches, cutting inference time and compute costs by up to 15%.
    • Contributed to “PQTO: Priority-Based QoS-Aware Task Offloading in 5G-MEC via Lightweight Classification Models”, under review at Springer Journal of Supercomputing.
    • Contributed to “Adaptive Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted MEC Using Federated Mutual Knowledge Distillation”, under review at IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
  4. Jan 2023 — Apr 2023Remote · US-based startup

    TMG

    Frontend Developer

    • Built responsive React.js applications with 100% cross-browser compatibility.
    • Designed state management with Redux and Context API, improving performance by up to 40%.
  5. 2023 — PresentChandrapur, Maharashtravolunteer

    Rajam Foundation

    Technical Expert (Volunteer)

    • Provide ongoing IT support and digital guidance for a mission centred on community forest rights and sustainability.
    • Built digital communication infrastructure and data management systems that improved outreach and operations.

Education

Oct 2022 — Jul 2026B.E. Computer EngineeringUniversity of MumbaiCGPA 8.85

02 — Selected work

Four builds, four podiums

Each of these shipped under hackathon pressure, then kept going. The numbers are from the judged submissions.

  1. N° 0165%resource efficiency gainSmart India Hackathon 2024 — Winner

    Dak

    Philatelic distribution system for India Post

    • Priority algorithms improved resource efficiency 65%; analytics dashboard accelerated decisions 40%.
    • Opened stamp access to 100,000+ users nationwide while cutting administrative costs 45% via automated inventory forecasting.
    • Next.js
    • Tailwind
    • Django
    • PostgreSQL
    • TensorFlow
    • Celery
    • BERT
  2. N° 0270%faster case researchCode4AI — Winner

    LegAIly

    AI legal assistant for research, translation and drafting

    • Accelerates document translation, case research and drafting, reducing lawyers’ workload by 60%.
    • NLP-driven search and summarisation cut case research time by 70%.
    • Validated with lawyers across District, High Court and Supreme Court levels for legal accuracy.
    • React
    • FastAPI
    • Node.js
    • Firebase
    • LangChain
    • GenAI
  3. N° 03SARIMAmonthly sales forecastingHack4Change@Charcha 2024 — Winner

    ODOP

    One District One Product — AI forecasting & verification

    • Seasonal ARIMA models forecast monthly sales to predict raw material requirements.
    • Document verification pipeline using k-means clustering and Tesseract OCR.
    • Smart navigation chatbot plus a decision-tree classifier for hate-speech moderation.
    • React Native
    • Python
    • TensorFlow
    • OpenCV
    • Django
    • Celery
  4. N° 04IJNRDtechnical paper publishedB.E. final year · Team lead

    BrainSync

    AI-powered collaborative learning platform

    • Final-year group project: integrated YouTube video summarization, quiz generation, handwriting-to-PDF conversion, and an LLM-powered research assistant in one learning platform.
    • Built AI workflows for video summarization and quiz generation, cutting manual study-material preparation time by up to 40% versus a manual workflow in tests.
    • Led a 4-member team on system architecture and AI/ML pipelines; technical paper published in the International Journal of Novel Research and Development (IJNRD).
    • React
    • FastAPI
    • PostgreSQL
    • LangChain
    • Python
    • LLM

03 — The trophy room

Scroll the helix

Smart India Hackathon 2024 winner ceremony at St. Joseph's Institute of Technology
Smart India Hackathon2024 · SIH 2024 — winner among 86,000+ teams (Govt. of India)
Team Hackstreet Hustlers holding the Smart India Hackathon 2024 winner cheque
Smart India Hackathon2024 · Grand finale — ₹1,00,000 winner cheque, SIH Software Edition
Code4AI hackathon winner presentation at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Code4AI2024 · Winner — DMX Code4AI, for LegAIly
Hack4Change at Charcha award ceremony co-hosted by Google
Hack4Change @ Charcha2024 · 2nd runner-up — Google × Hack2Skill × Charcha
Move AI Hackathon Game-Fi track first place by Aptos Foundation
Move AI Hackathon2024 · 1st place — GameFi track ($13,000), Aptos GameVerse
SyntechXathon hackathon team photo
SyntechXathon2024 · Winner — college-level hackathon
Supreme Court advocate presenting LegAIly certificate of excellence and mentorship
LegAIly2024 · Certificate of excellence — mentorship from a Supreme Court lawyer
2024Smart India HackathonSIH 2024 — winner among 86,000+ teams (Govt. of India)
2024Smart India HackathonGrand finale — ₹1,00,000 winner cheque, SIH Software Edition
2024Code4AIWinner — DMX Code4AI, for LegAIly
2024Hack4Change @ Charcha2nd runner-up — Google × Hack2Skill × Charcha
2024Move AI Hackathon1st place — GameFi track ($13,000), Aptos GameVerse
2024SyntechXathonWinner — college-level hackathon
2024LegAIlyCertificate of excellence — mentorship from a Supreme Court lawyer

04 — Research output

Papers in motion

  1. [01]

    BrainSync: AI-Powered Collaborative Learning Platform

    International Journal of Novel Research and Development (IJNRD)

    Published
  2. [02]

    PQTO: Priority-Based QoS-Aware Task Offloading in 5G-MEC via Lightweight Classification Models

    Springer Open Journal of Supercomputing

    Under review
  3. [03]

    Adaptive Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted MEC Using Federated Mutual Knowledge Distillation

    IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

    Under review
  4. [04]

    Security in Model Context Protocol and LLM-Based Agents: A Comprehensive Review of Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions

    Survey

    Work in progress

05 — Instrument panel

Tools on the bench

01

Languages

  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • C#
02

Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • TailwindCSS
  • GraphQL
  • Redux Toolkit
03

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Kafka
04

ML / DL

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • Hugging Face
  • OpenCV
  • spaCy
05

MLOps

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kubeflow
  • MLflow
  • Airflow
  • BentoML
  • Weights & Biases
  • GitHub Actions
06

Cloud & Chain

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Firebase
  • Ethereum
  • Hardhat
Leadership

Vice President, DMX

Technical club with 100+ active members — organises regular hackathons and project opportunities for students.