Engineering AI systems with a spinner's mindset — patience, precision, and reading the game two moves ahead. 🏏
- 🎓 MSCS @ University of Wisconsin–Madison (2026) · B.Tech EEE @ IIT (BHU) Varanasi
- 🔬 Published at ICLR 2026 Workshop — neurosymbolic reasoning with LLMs
- 💼 4.5+ years of industry ML experience across Auxia, Spring Financial, HiLabs, Publicis Sapient
- 🤖 Obsessed with: Agentic Systems, LLM post-training (PPO/DPO), RAG pipelines, Verifiable AI
- 🏗️ Love to scale my learning — from fine-tuning LLaMA/Mistral to building multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph & Google ADK
- 🏓🏏 Off the keyboard: smashing table tennis shots & spinning cricket balls
- 📍 Madison, WI · Open to Work — MLE · AI Engineer · Applied Scientist · Data Scientist · SWE
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| verifiable-rl-coder | Verifiable reinforcement learning for code generation — reward-shaped RL training | Python · PyTorch |
| ClaimBench | Benchmark suite for evaluating LLM-based claim verification at scale | Python · HuggingFace |
| llmpackage | Clean toolkit for fine-tuning & few-shot learning with LLaMA and Mistral variants | Python · PEFT |
| KV-store | High-performance in-memory KV store — epoll/kqueue, sharded concurrency, LRU + TTL | C |
| CS-739-KVStore | Distributed in-memory KV store (UW-Madison systems course) | C++ |
| CafeAI | Conversational coffee shop ordering app — multi-parser LLM backend (GPT-4o, Claude), React Native + Node.js | TypeScript · React Native · Node.js |
- Teaching Assistant — UW-Madison · Data Science Programming II (Jan 2026 – Present)
- Data Scientist — Auxia · RL & personalization systems (Jan 2025 – Aug 2025)
- Data Scientist — Spring Financial · ML for personal loan decisioning (Aug 2024 – Jan 2025)
- Data Scientist II — HiLabs · NLP / GenAI for healthcare data (Apr 2023 – Aug 2024)
- Senior Data Scientist — Publicis Sapient · GenAI & chatbot evaluation frameworks (Jun 2021 – Apr 2023)
I'm actively looking for MLE · AI/ML Engineer · Applied Scientist · Data Scientist · SWE roles (full-time, 2026). Drop me a line at deveshmaheshwari25@gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn 🚀
