Open to internships & new-grad opportunities

GENAI ENGINEER · ML SYSTEMS · BACKEND

I build AI products that go from idea to production.

I’m Utkarsh, an engineering student who builds end-to-end AI experiences—from agentic RAG applications and LLM fine-tuning to high-performance visual search and distributed systems.

PROFILE / 2026 AVAILABLE
Portrait of Utkarsh Kumar Rai
Utkarsh Kumar Rai ABV-IIITM Gwalior · Class of 2027
Cuttack, IN
5Engineering projects
120K+Images indexed
87.17%Recall@10
200+DSA problems

SELECTED WORK

Projects built to solve, not just showcase.

Production-minded work across generative AI, retrieval systems, computer vision, and backend engineering.

02Computer Vision · Search

Guided research project

Visual Search Engine

Fine-tuned ViT-B/16 with ArcFace metric learning and built a FAISS HNSW index for real-time product similarity search across 120,053 images.

87.17%Recall@10
11×Faster search
0.2msANN latency
PyTorchViT-B/16ArcFaceFAISSStreamlit
03LLM + RAG

Fine-tuning

E-Commerce Product Assistant

Fine-tuned TinyLlama-1.1B with LoRA on 5,000 Q&A pairs and grounded responses using a FAISS index over 10,000 product descriptions.

<50ms retrieval>80% hit rate
PyTorchPEFTFAISSGradio
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04Distributed systems

Backend engineering

ParaQuery

A distributed SQL engine using gRPC streaming, predicate pushdown, partial aggregation, and fault recovery across three parallel workers.

1.70× speedup2M+ rows
PythongRPCSQLDocker
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05Systems programming

Storage engine

Mini-Redis

A multithreaded in-memory store with a custom RESP protocol, AOF persistence, atomic transactions, and LRU eviction.

30K+ ops/sec48 unit tests
PythonTCPThreadingRESP
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EXPERTISE

Tools I use to ship complete systems.

Strong fundamentals, practical AI engineering, and the backend skills required to turn models into usable products.

01

GenAI & LLM Systems

Agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, model integration, prompt design, and fine-tuning.

Gemini APILangGraphRAGChromaDBFAISSLoRAPEFTSentence-Transformers
02

Web & Backend

Authenticated APIs, data persistence, frontend integration, distributed communication, and deployment.

DjangoDRFReactJavaScriptRESTJWTPostgreSQLSQLitegRPCDocker
03

ML & Computer Vision

Training and evaluating deep-learning models, metric learning, embeddings, and similarity search.

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnViTArcFaceOpenCVHuggingFace
04

Engineering Toolkit

Languages and tools used across experimentation, development, version control, and deployment.

PythonC++CGitGitHubNumPyPandasStreamlitGradioMLflow

ABOUT ME

Curious by default.
Builder by choice.

I’m a B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at ABV-IIITM Gwalior, graduating in 2027. I’m focused on GenAI and software engineering roles where I can own meaningful problems end to end.

My work spans agentic RAG, LLM fine-tuning, computer vision, vector search, distributed querying, and backend systems. I learn technologies by using them to build something real.

I care about the parts beyond the demo: API design, evaluation, latency, authentication, deployment, and whether a product is genuinely useful to its users.

01Understand the problem 02Measure what matters 03Ship the complete product

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Learning through real engineering work.

May — July 2026

GUIDED PROJECT · ABV-IIITM GWALIOR

Visual Search Engine for E-Commerce

Built under the guidance of Dr. Neelesh Yadav, Department of EEE. Developed and benchmarked a production-ready image-retrieval pipeline using Vision Transformers, ArcFace metric learning, and FAISS.

ResearchComputer VisionML Systems
2023 — 2027

EDUCATION

ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering · CGPA 7.46. Coursework includes Data Structures & Algorithms, OOP, Operating Systems, DBMS, Computer Networks, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision.

BEYOND PROJECTS

Milestones along the journey.

01

Competitive Programming

Solved 200+ problems across LeetCode and GeeksforGeeks, covering graphs, dynamic programming, trees, greedy methods, and core data structures.

200+ problems
02

JEE Advanced 2023

Secured AIR 12,000, placing in the top approximately 8% among 150,000+ candidates.

AIR 12,000
03

Flipkart Grid 6.0

Led a three-member team through Level 1 and advanced to Level 2 of Flipkart’s national engineering challenge.

Team lead
04

Google Solution Challenge 2025

Developed and demonstrated a full-stack application using Google Cloud, Maps API, and Firebase.

Global challenge
05

MCM Type-1 Scholarship

Awarded the Merit-cum-Means scholarship during the first year at ABV-IIITM Gwalior for academic performance and financial merit.

Scholarship

LET'S BUILD SOMETHING USEFUL

Looking for a GenAI or software engineering intern?

I’m open to remote and on-site internship opportunities for 2026–27. If my work aligns with what your team is building, I’d love to hear from you.

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