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I build Agentic AI
and LLM systems that ship.

Multi-agent orchestration · LLM/SLM fine-tuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO) · Inference on A100/H100 — production GenAI for financial services.

TransUnion · ZS Associates · IISc Bengaluru
Open to roles — India · EU · UAE
Ankit Wahane
Currently building
AI Agents for Insight Generation
@ TransUnion

Case Studies

All projects →

QBR GenAI Agents Orchestrator

Multi-agent pipeline — Engagement → Gatherer → Synthesis — that auto-generates editable PowerPoint Quarterly Business Reviews. Reduced QBR prep from days to minutes.

Automated QBRs Days → Minutes
LangGraphRAGStreamlitPPTX

Bayesian MMM + Budget Optimizer

Hierarchical Marketing Mix Model with adstock, saturation curves and JAX-accelerated MCMC. ROI-optimised budget allocator with GPT-generated scenario narratives.

+20–25% revenue uplift
PyMCJAXPlotlyGPT-4

slm-125m — Language Model from Scratch

125.8M-parameter model pretrained from random init on 2.04B tokens of legal/financial/web text for $15.54 — custom BPE tokenizer (16K vocab), GPT-2 architecture, no base model.

2.04B tokens · $15.54
PyTorchBPE TokenizerGPT-2 Arch
More Work

All Projects

Drug Shortage Early Warning System

Transformer-based model combining internal inventory signals with NLP-processed news feeds to detect pharmaceutical supply chain disruptions weeks in advance.

TransformersNLPXGBoostPyTorch 1–2 months earlier detection

Pharmacy Orders Forecasting (NBO)

XGBoost + ALS for retention/cross-sell with E2E AWS SageMaker deployment and OpenAI explanations for sales teams.

XGBoostAWS SageMakerOpenAI

Data Scientist Learning Hub

CrewAI multi-agent system (Researcher → Writer → Reviewer) generating curated ML study notes on demand.

CrewAILLMsStreamlit

Alter Igo — GenAI Code Assistant

Generate-fix-execute loop producing interactive charts, tables, and insights from natural-language analytics queries.

AgentsRAGEvaluation

Predictive Lead Scoring

Random Forest model deployed on SageMaker; improved conversion targeting for enterprise pharma sales reps.

Random ForestSageMakerFeature Eng.

Gate-Checked Bags Forecasting

CatBoost + ANN using flight and passenger features for a major US airline.

CatBoostANN 10–15% fewer under-preds

SPN Insights Extraction Pipeline

NLI pipeline using PubMedBERT on Databricks to automatically mine insights from pharmaceutical literature at scale.

PubMedBERTNLIDatabricks
Career

Work Experience

Data Science Consultant TransUnion Oct 2024 – Present · Bengaluru
  • Agentic AI: Designing multi-agent systems (LangGraph) that automate complex analytical and reporting workflows — orchestrating agents for information gathering, analysis, insight generation, and evidence-backed business reporting
  • LLM & SLM Engineering: Fine-tuning domain-specific language models via SFT, LoRA/PEFT, QLoRA and preference optimisation (DPO, GRPO); covering training-data preparation, custom reward pipelines, evaluation, and inference optimisation on multi-GPU (A100/H100) infrastructure
  • → Building production-ready GenAI solutions at the intersection of Agentic AI, applied ML, and financial services
Associate Consultant ZS Associates Jul 2022 – Jul 2024 · Bengaluru
  • → Transformer-based drug shortage prediction — detected disruptions 1–2 months earlier
  • → Bayesian MMM + budget optimizer — estimated +20–25% revenue uplift
  • → XGBoost pharmacy forecasting with E2E AWS deployment + OpenAI-powered explanations
Data Science Associate ZS Associates Aug 2020 – Jun 2022 · Bengaluru
  • → Predictive lead scoring on SageMaker — improved conversion targeting for pharma sales
  • → Gate-checked bags forecasting for US airline — 10–15% fewer under-predictions
  • → NLI pipeline (PubMedBERT on Databricks) for medical insight mining
ML Intern Apra Labs May – Jul 2019 · Bengaluru

Gaze estimation iOS app and driver safety demo using convolutional models.

Engineer Tata Elxsi Aug 2016 – May 2017 · Bengaluru

Embedded systems and product engineering for automotive and broadcast technology domains.

Academic

Education

IISc
MTech — Communication & Networks
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Top 5 engineering institution in India
VIT Pune
BTech — Electronics & Telecommunication
VIT Pune
Technical

Skills

AI Agents & Orchestration
LangGraphLangChainCrewAI Multi-AgentTool UseMCP
LLM Finetuning
LoRA / QLoRAPEFTTRL SFTDPOTransformers
Inference Engineering
vLLMOllamaGGUF / AWQ QuantisationBatchingRAG
ML & Modelling
PyTorchXGBoostBayesian Stats Time SeriesScikit-learn
MLOps & Cloud
AWS SageMakerGCPDatabricks DockerCI/CD
Languages & Tools
PythonSQLFastAPI StreamlitGit
Recognition

Awards

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Fostering ZS Culture
Mar 2024 — Next Best Order project
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BHC Project Award
Nov 2023 — MMM & Budget Optimization
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Ingenious Award
Aug 2023 — Growth leadership
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Going Above & Beyond
AI Summit 2022
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Project Champion
Aug 2022 — Airport Predictive Ops
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Impact Award
Oct 2021 — Amgen Medical SPN Analytics
Insights

Selected Writing

Published Medium · 2024

SafeTensors vs Pickle vs GGUF: Secure & Efficient Model Formats

A deep dive into three production model serialisation formats — performance benchmarks, security considerations, and a quick decision guide with conversion code recipes.

Read on Medium →
Coming soon

Bayesian MMM in Practice: From Prior Selection to Budget Optimisation

End-to-end walkthrough of a hierarchical Bayesian MMM in PyMC — adstock transforms, saturation curves, and ROI optimisation.

Drafting…
Credentials

Certifications

DeepLearning.AI
Federated Fine-tuning of LLMs with Private Data
Privacy-preserving fine-tuning techniques for LLMs
DeepLearning.AI
Serverless LLM Apps — Amazon Bedrock
Production GenAI apps on AWS serverless infrastructure
DeepLearning.AI
LangChain Chat with Your Data
RAG pipelines, document loaders, and retrieval strategies
DeepLearning.AI
Finetuning Large Language Models
Instruction tuning, LoRA, and evaluation for LLMs
Coursera
Credit Card Fraud Detection — Portfolio Project
End-to-end ML pipeline for financial fraud detection

Beyond Work

Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work
Beyond work

Travel · Photography · Buddhism

Get in Touch

Contact

Open to roles and collaborations. I usually reply within a day.

Or email directly: ankitwahane497@gmail.com