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Basics

Name Harshwardhan Fartale
Label Machine Learning & Data Science Professional
Email harshwardhanfartale.nith@gmail.com
Phone +91-9317439486
Url https://emharsha1812.github.io/

Work

  • 2025.10 - Present
    Advanced Data Science Associate
    ZS
    Building GenAI based healthcare solutions for pharma.
    • Building GenAI based healthcare solutions for pharma
    • Technologies: GenAI, healthcare AI workflows, Python
  • 2024.07 - 2025.09
    Predoc Associate
    DRDO & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    Worked on ML systems for combat aircraft applications and SciML research at AiREX lab under Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan.
    • Developed low level C++ components to integrate ML models for CASDIC's combat aircraft hardware for low-latency inference
    • Evaluated fine-tuned IBM Granite & Gemma models for SciML using a custom Graph-RAG pipeline, achieving SOTA accuracy on benchmark datasets
    • Led open source projects PULSE & SciREX at AiREX under Professor Sashikumaar Ganesan
    • Technologies: C++, IBM Granite, Gemma, Graph-RAG, SciML
  • 2024.01 - 2024.06
    Data Scientist
    Bajaj Finserv Health
    Worked on fraud detection models and graph-based pipelines.
    • Designed and implemented a high-performance statistical model for fraudulent transaction prediction, achieving the highest abuse detection rate
    • Spearheaded end-to-end development of a fraud detection pipeline using graph database technologies (Memgraph, Neo4j, Cypher)
    • Built and optimized SQL queries to aggregate features from relational databases, improving training data quality for fraud detection models
    • Technologies: Python, SQL, Memgraph, Neo4j, Cypher
  • 2023.06 - 2023.07
    Machine Learning Intern
    IIT Indore
    Developed ML models for financial forecasting.
    • Developed ML models for stock-price prediction using Python, achieving 85% accuracy by incorporating news and market data
    • Implemented time-series analysis and feature engineering, boosting model accuracy by 25%
    • Technologies: Python, time-series modeling, feature engineering
  • 2023.01 - 2023.06
    Open Source Technical Writer
    OpenMined
    Contributed to documentation and technical blogs for privacy-preserving ML.
    • Collaborated with the writing team to improve existing documentation and beginner tutorials in differential privacy
    • Published blog posts on federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning, resulting in increased product adoption
    • Technologies: Differential privacy, federated learning, technical writing

Education

  • 2020.12 - 2024.05
    B.Tech
    National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
    Electrical Engineering

Projects

  • 2025.03 - Present
    AIFred – Secure, Local AI Coding Assistant
    Desktop AI coding assistant with real-time LLM and ASR, ensuring 100% local data privacy.
    • Launched AIFred: a desktop coding assistant with real-time AI and 100% data privacy via a local AI pipeline (Ollama for LLM and NVIDIA NeMo for ASR)
    • Built an entirely on-device voice command interface for secure offline querying
    • Optimized for low latency by architecting a fully local AI pipeline and shipped an Electron overlay UI for seamless coding workflows
    • Technologies: Python (FastAPI, NeMo, pydub), JavaScript (Electron), Ollama API
  • Document Tampering Detection using YOLOv8
    Forgery detection system using YOLOv8 and Streamlit.
    • Developed a forgery-detection system with YOLOv8 to identify overwriting, scribbling, and whitener use
    • Built a dataset of 600+ document images for robust detection
    • Designed a Streamlit interface for document upload, tampering visualization, and detailed digital-forgery analysis
    • Technologies: Python, Streamlit, OpenCV, YOLOv8
  • Fundus AI
    AI-powered ophthalmic disease detection solution.
    • Developed an end-to-end solution to detect ophthalmic and systemic diseases such as Diabetic & Hypertensive Retinopathy, Cataract, Glaucoma, and ARMD
    • Built a deep-learning smartphone app for accessible ophthalmic screening
    • Designed a 3D-printed Tinkercad-based accessory for high-quality fundus image capture
    • Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, Flutter, Tinkercad

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
C++
SQL
Triton
ML & GenAI
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
Data & MLOps
Neo4j
Memgraph
Cypher
Docker
Kubernetes
Frameworks & Platforms
FastAPI
Streamlit
Linux
Google Cloud Platform
LaTeX
Technical Writing
Substack
Medium
Hashnode

Certificates

Volunteer

  • 2025.07 - 2025.09
    Teaching Assistant
    IISc Bangalore
    DS-246, Generative & Agentic AI in Practice. Delivered lectures and tutorials, led doubt sessions, and was responsible for developing and grading assessments.
  • 2025.01 - 2025.01
    Machine Learning & Data Science Trainer
    DRDO Industry Academia Centres of Excellence (DIA-CoEs)
    Designed & delivered a 3-day training module to DRDO scientists, focusing on foundational Machine Learning and core data science tools.