Laxman Singh Tomar

Āgra, India
lakshmantomar@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/laxman-singh
+918218552337

I'm a Senior ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience in Industry and Open-Source to solve problems in Search, Question Answering and Recommender Systems. I'm passionate about building scalable AI products & crafting things people love.

Work Experience

JiffyShirts

JiffyShirts

Senior ML Engineer
Aug 2023 - Current

Assets Search

  • Using Vision Language Models (GPT-4V and LLaVA) for Metadata Generation for assets (artworks, fonts) for Semantic Search.

Jiffy Copilot

  • Building Jiffy Copilot - a shopping assistant for apparel purchase and recommendations using LLMs.

Emplay Inc.

Emplay Inc.

Senior NLP Engineer
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023

Conversational Search Engine

  • Integrated generative capabilities of LLMs into products like Search, Text Generation, and multi-purpose Agents for SAP, P&G and AWS.

Knowledge Search Engine

  • Built scalable search and knowledge retrieval systems serving over 1M documents for P&G, used vector databases and microservices framework.

Question-Answer Generation

  • Built high-quality QA pair generation pipeline from text using Transformers, converted to a scalable async service, performed stress and unit testing.

Question-Answer Evaluation

  • Annotated QA dataset using weak supervision, trained a classifier to filter out low-quality questions with 75% accuracy, evaluated low-confidence samples to improve performance.

Content Moderation Engine

  • Built AI content moderation engine for Simpplr, trained a transformer model to detect inappropriate comments with 91% accuracy, optimized for deployment via ONNX and quantization; actively used by 500+ companies.

Albot Technologies

Albot Technologies

Machine Learning Engineer
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022

SafeNet

  • Developed an AI-powered browser extension for UNICEF which detects NSFW textual and visual content present on the webpage in real-time using models like LSTMs, and MobileNetV2.

Network Anomaly Detection

  • Worked on detecting different types of Network Attacks directly from the Network Interface; Obtained 94% accuracy using Stacked Model, improving upon the previous baseline of signature-based methods by 40%.

Robofied

Robofied

Machine Learning Engineer
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020

VoiceNet

  • Worked on Voicenet - a comprehensive python library for performing speech/voice-based functions ranging from Speech to Text, Age and Emotion detection from Voice, and many more!

Publications

Personal Projects

In-Session Purchase Intent Predictions & Recommendations

In-Session Purchase Intent Predictions & Recommendations

Developer
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

RecSys for Cart Abandonment and Recommendations. Used SIGIR Ecom2021 Challenge Dataset. Used Prefect as Orchestrator and Metaflow for ML DAGs. Built an LSTM Model with TF/Keras and deployed with Serverless.

Tags Prediction for Projects

Tags Prediction for Projects

Developer
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022

Multi-Class Text Classification using Project Metadata. Used Dataset comprising Projects Title, Description, and associated categories/tags. Used Airbyte for Data Pipelines, Airflow as Orchestrator, and Feast for Feature Store. Built a Model using Tf-Idf Feature Vectorization and SGD Classifier to obtain a 0.85 f-1 score.

Podcast Search at Spotify

Podcast Search at Spotify

Developer
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

Replicating Semantic Podcast Search at Spotify. Used Listen Notes' Dataset comprising metadata of 100k Podcasts. Obtained Recall@30 of 0.57 compared to 0.29 via fine-tuned distilUSE when using the same model without fine-tuning.

Education

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University

Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Linear Algebra, Data Structures & Algorithms

Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Model Deployment
  • Model APIs