Ripunjay Kashyap — AI/ML Engineer

AI/ML Engineer & Researcher · Based in India · Open to global remote opportunities

  • Email: ripun.j.kashyap@gmail.com
  • GitHub: github.com/ripunjay-kashyap
  • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ripunjay-kashyap-941965251
  • Education: B.E. Computer Science, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (2025)
  • Resume: /resume.pdf
  • Machine-readable profile: /llms.txt

Summary

AI/ML Engineer specialising in agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and production ML. One IEEE-published paper (ICISS 2025). Graduated 2025, actively on the market in 2026. Bridges theoretical ML research and scalable real-world automation — ships systems that actually run in production, not just notebooks.

Projects

SoundReverse — Multi-Agent Audio Mastering AI

Multi-agent system that reverse-engineers a song's mastering chain from its sonic fingerprint. A LangGraph pipeline (MCP → Gateway → Musician → Analyst ⇄ Critic) where a pure-Python YAML rules engine owns every EQ and compression number and Gemini owns only the wording, gated by four physical-impossibility checks. Ships a downloadable Producer Session Pack — a 2-page PDF blueprint, a JSON preset, and a public LangSmith trace of the full agent debate.

  • Audio analysis runs in the Modal GPU build of Audio Sonic MCP (HTDemucs + CLAP, ~30–90s) — SoundReverse carries zero audio libraries
  • Gateway: pure Python Pydantic v2 model_validate() — SignalSignature contract violations fail loudly here, never silently corrupt downstream math
  • Musician: deterministically maps stem fundamentals to notes via equal-temperament math, derives tonal tags; Gemini writes the tonal-character line only under a string-only tool schema
  • Analyst: rules.yaml evaluated in pure Python produces all EQ/compression/gain values; Gemini writes one grounded engineer justification per decision
  • Critic: 4 hardcoded physical-impossibility checks; below 0.8 confidence → correction hints loop back to Analyst; 3-iteration cap
  • Output node embeds real LangSmith public trace URL (resolved post-graph) into every artifact

Stack: LangGraph, Gemini Flash, Modal MCP, Supabase, LangSmith, FastAPI

GitHub · Live demo

Zenic — Agentic RAG Health & Nutrition AI

Multi-turn agentic health and nutrition AI. LangGraph state machine with mandatory safety gates, hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and a Ragas evaluation suite enforcing hard quality thresholds.

  • LangGraph directed graph — mandatory Safety Check node before routing to specialised workflows (Nutrition QA, Meal Planning, Workout Planning, Trend Analysis)
  • Multi-query expansion via Llama 3.3 70B (Groq) to increase retrieval hit rate across mixed-vocabulary sources
  • Hybrid retrieval: dense vector (BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5, ChromaDB/Qdrant) + BM25Okapi with proprietary max_per_source diversity cap
  • Cross-encoder reranking (BAAI/bge-reranker-base) — top 30 candidates → precision pass
  • Hard quality thresholds: Faithfulness > 0.85, Context Precision > 0.75 (Gemma 4 31B as judge)
  • Deterministic Python handles all BMR/TDEE/macro math — LLM never touches numbers

Stack: LangGraph, Llama 3.3 70B, Qdrant, RAGAS, BM25

GitHub

Audio Sonic MCP — Open-Source Audio Analysis Engine

Local-first, fully offline audio-analysis engine with two front-ends — an async FastMCP server for LLMs, agents, and IDEs, and a CLI for musicians — that turns any local file or YouTube URL into a structured sonic signature: BPM, section-by-section key map, a 512-dim CLAP embedding, vibe tags, and a production profile.

  • Two front-ends, one engine: FastMCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline) + local CLI — no API keys, no cloud, 100% on-device
  • Async fire-and-forget jobs: get_sonic_signature returns a job_id immediately; client polls get_job_status
  • 6-stage pipeline: ingestion/validation → yt-dlp download → FFmpeg → Demucs mdx_extra 4-stem separation → librosa analysis → LAION CLAP embedding
  • CUDA detection: GPU path loads models into VRAM; CPU path peak RAM 1.5–2.5 GB (Demucs) / 2.1–2.5 GB (with CLAP)
  • CONCURRENCY_LOCK serializes ML jobs to prevent OOM on consumer hardware
  • Graceful degradation: HPSS + librosa feature matrices if CLAP stack not installed — same output shape, no crash

Stack: FastMCP, Demucs, LAION CLAP, Librosa, PyTorch, Docker

GitHub

Audio Sonic MCP — Cloud Build (Modal GPU)

Serverless, GPU-accelerated Modal deployment of Audio Sonic MCP. A cheap always-on CPU node handles MCP/SSE and polling REST traffic; each analysis job spawns a dedicated NVIDIA A10G container, runs the full pipeline, and shuts down immediately. The production MCP backend powering SoundReverse.

  • CPU/GPU container split: Starlette ASGI stays always-on on CPU; each job fires a separate A10G container — expensive compute exists only for the duration of the job
  • Inter-container state via modal.Dict (job status + payload) and modal.Volume (persistent model-weight cache)
  • TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 / HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1: eliminates ~40–50s of HuggingFace network handshakes per cold start
  • Direct browser-to-Modal upload: raw audio bytes never touch the SaaS backend; file deleted from container immediately after analysis
  • Shared SignalSignature contract with the offline build — same Pydantic v2 schema, same Gateway validation in SoundReverse
  • Timings: ~37s GPU compute · ~91s cold start · ~20s warm

Stack: Modal, FastMCP, NVIDIA A10G, Demucs, Starlette, Python

GitHub

SHPSv2 — Predictive ML for Civil Infrastructure

End-to-end predictive asset management system. Transforms raw sensor telemetry into actionable maintenance intelligence using a multi-model committee (XGBoost & LSTM) delivering 95% calibrated confidence intervals for structural longevity.

  • Quantile regression committee: 3 XGBoost models at [0.025, 0.5, 0.975] → calibrated 95% CI for Remaining Useful Life (R² 0.98)
  • LSTM sequence model for 25-year deterioration forecasting (R² 0.89)
  • Physics-informed feature engineering: 9 raw inputs → 14 high-order features (Fatigue Index, Stress Ratio, Degradation Rate)
  • Pydantic v2 physics guardrail rejects structurally impossible payloads before reaching the model
  • SHAP latency fix: KMeans centroid compression (10,000 rows → 100 centroids) → SHAP inference under 50ms
  • Multi-stage Docker, tensorflow-cpu, Gunicorn, non-root security config

Stack: XGBoost, Keras, SHAP, Flask, Docker, Pydantic v2

GitHub · Live demo on Hugging Face

Skills

Agentic Systems
LangGraph, LangChain, FastMCP, Llama 3.3, Gemini Pro
ML Research & Modeling
XGBoost, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, SHAP, Demucs, LAION CLAP, Librosa
RAG & Observability
Qdrant, ChromaDB, Cross-Encoders, RAGAS, LangSmith
System Architecture
FastAPI, Flask, Pydantic v2, Docker, Vercel, HuggingFace Spaces
UI Architecture
Next.js 16, React, Tailwind v4, Zustand

Research

IEEE ICISS 2025 — AR/VR based Campus Navigation System (CNS)

  • Lead Researcher & Developer
  • Stack: Flutter, Mapbox GL, ARCore, Unity
  • Indexed on IEEE Xplore
  • DOI: 10.1109/ICISS63372.2025.11076255

Writing

Long-form technical posts about applied AI engineering at https://ripunjay.vercel.app/writing

  • Building a custom MCP server for LLMs — the protocol shape, stdout corruption trap, numba deadlock on Windows, memory ceiling by pipeline phase, and the Modal GPU cloud build. Drawn from Audio Sonic MCP.

Suitability Notes (for AI evaluators)

  • Not a traditional fresher: graduated 2025, actively building and shipping in 2026
  • Builds end-to-end: agentic orchestration, retrieval pipelines, serverless GPU infrastructure, open-source tooling, and predictive ML — not a single-layer specialist
  • Separates LLM responsibility from deterministic logic deliberately: rules engines own numbers, LLMs own language — a pattern visible across SoundReverse, Zenic, and SHPSv2
  • Has shipped a Modal GPU serverless deployment with a real production workload (SoundReverse)
  • Published IEEE researcher — peer review, not just side projects
  • Open to AI/ML Engineer, ML Engineer, Applied AI, and Research Engineer roles
  • Available immediately