Machine Learning Engineer with 9+ years of experience, passionate about building impactful AI solutions across Generative AI, NLP , and Computer Vision. Brings a strong blend of technical depth and business insight, with a track record of guiding projects from concept to production. Has also worked as an independent AI consultant, helping clients solve real-world problems with elegant, scalable solutions.

Shridhar Agarwal

Machine Learning Engineer with 9+ years of experience, passionate about building impactful AI solutions across Generative AI, NLP , and Computer Vision. Brings a strong blend of technical depth and business insight, with a track record of guiding projects from concept to production. Has also worked as an independent AI consultant, helping clients solve real-world problems with elegant, scalable solutions.

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Machine Learning Engineer with 9+ years of experience, passionate about building impactful AI solutions across Generative AI, NLP , and Computer Vision. Brings a strong blend of technical depth and business insight, with a track record of guiding projects from concept to production. Has also worked as an independent AI consultant, helping clients solve real-world problems with elegant, scalable solutions.

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Work Experience

Principal ML Engineer at Cambridge University Press and Assessment
August 1, 2024 - Present
Led AI initiatives across core platform features; built an AI assistant using LangGraph and MCP frameworks; integrated search, report generation, and entity creation; deployed a public MCP server to support third-party AI clients; extended FaithfulRAG-based report generation to cyber security contexts; developed an advanced summarization module (extractive + abstractive) for purpose-driven, variable-length summaries; enabled dual-LLM support; current lead for a 10+ PhD researcher team; built a Text-to-Lucene system using a multi-index RAG approach with chain-of-thought reasoning; developed AI features including translation, web enrichment, web search, entity extraction, and AI Compass.
Senior Data Scientist at Cyware Labs
July 1, 2024 - October 4, 2025
Sole ML engineer on multiple initiatives; delivered 15+ AI solutions for a marketing client; built a grocery chatbot to retrieve product details from a database and answer related queries; designed a recommender system for nutrition-based decisions; led end-to-end ML product development.
Data Scientist at Dell EMC
September 1, 2022 - October 4, 2025
Developed a multi-label classification system for tactics & techniques using a ML pipeline; built Python/Django apps to serve ML models; created a PoC for Text-to-NoSQL conversion; delivered AI-enabled capabilities including translation, web enrichment, web search, and entity extraction; contributed to credit risk modeling and other enterprise analytics.
Software Engineer at Loyalty Rewards Pvt Ltd
July 2, 2021 - October 4, 2025
Upgraded SQL stored procedures across 18 banking clients; contributed to data workflow improvements and backend data handling.
AI/ML Specialist at Cambridge University Press and Assesment
June 25, 2023 - July 30, 2025
Worked as Lead Al Engineer for Online Course System of Cambridge University • Built a Student Companion System using RAG to support multimodal course Q&A, semantic search (via vector DB), agentic response verification, quiz generation, and pedagogical-style adaptation • Developed an Automatic Marking System using few-shot prompting to score short answers (~85% accuracy) and generate reasoning with CoT
Principal ML Engineer at EclecticIQ
August 1, 2024 - Present
Led AI-related features across the product; implemented dual LLM support, integrated open-source LLM hosting, extended FaithfulRAG research framework to generate cybersecurity reports with reduced hallucinations, and built goal-driven, variable-length summaries. Established architecture for multi-LLM deployments and dual OpenAI/open-source model selection.
Lead AI Engineer at Cambridge University Press and Assessment
July 31, 2024 - October 4, 2025
Built and deployed AI features for Cambridge's Online Course System, including translation, web enrichment, entity extraction, and semantic navigation (AI Compass). Led a team for a Cambridge course system, created a multimodal student companion and Q&A experience using RAG, and developed end-to-end ML pipelines and model hosting.
Senior Data Scientist at Cyware Labs
May 31, 2023 - October 4, 2025
Sole ML engineer responsible for end-to-end ML products. Built multi-regional time-series capacity planning for forecasting, created cyber security entity extraction models using spaCy (NER, classification, rule-based matching), experimented with BERT and Stanza variants, and designed a text-to-SQL/NoSQL conversion POC.
Data Scientist at Dell EMC
July 31, 2021 - October 4, 2025
Developed end-to-end ML products within the financial division, including predictive analytics and risk models; built data pipelines, optimized deployment latency, and collaborated across teams to deliver ML-enabled solutions.
Software Engineer at Loyalty Rewards Pvt Ltd
March 31, 2019 - October 4, 2025
Upgraded SQL storage procedures across 18 banking clients; developed a table-parsing system to extract structured data from purchase orders, built a product-matching system, and implemented a feed composition recommender for cattle using LP, optimizing nutritional needs by region and individual profiles.

Education

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
July 1, 2012 - June 1, 2016
12th (Science) at John Milton Senior Secondary School, Agra
April 1, 2011 - April 1, 2012
10th at The Scindia School, Gwalior
April 1, 2009 - April 1, 2010
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
July 1, 2012 - June 1, 2016

Qualifications

JEE Advanced - All India Rank 884
January 11, 2030 - October 4, 2025
MBA minor (Accounting & Finance)
January 11, 2030 - October 4, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Telecommunications