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Hi, I’m Bhargob Deka, a senior AI/ML developer focused on forecasting, anomaly detection, and AI agents who loves turning research into scalable production systems. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native solutions that empower decision-making and operational excellence.
I also write technical articles and case studies to help startups adopt practical AI, sharing learnings from projects at Hydro-Québec and Jesta I.S.
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Work Experience
Senior AI-ML Developer at Jesta I.S.
October 1, 2024 - PresentLed the design and development of the company's first AI Agent enabling retail clients to obtain business insights from natural language queries against their own data. Prototyped with Gradio, built a scalable backend with FastAPI and a frontend using React and TypeScript. Deployed via Azure DevOps CI/CD, implemented I/O guardrails, and used Langsmith for experiment tracking and evaluation. Engineered end-to-end demand forecasting with LightGBM models for short-term and pre-season forecasts, orchestrated with Kedro, runs on AWS Batch, and tracked experiments with MLflow. Developed AutoEncoder and Random Forest models for a fraud-detection POC.
Technical Writer at Unstract & Literally.dev
January 1, 2025 - PresentCrafted engaging blog posts and case studies for two AI startups, promoting products like LLMWhisperer and Kapa’s production-grade RAG pipelines for technical documentation API and MCP server, helping drive audience growth and lead generation.
Machine Learning Researcher at Hydro-Québec
December 31, 2022 - April 30, 2024Developed probabilistic LSTM models for forecasting using data from 400+ dams; integrated a real-time anomaly detection framework with switching Kalman filter, reducing false alarms by ~50%. Built an end-to-end PyTorch framework for training, evaluation, and monitoring, integrated with MLFlow on AWS; improved predictive accuracy by modeling heteroscedastic uncertainty.
Graduate Research Assistant at Polytechnique Montreal
September 1, 2018 - December 1, 2022Developed a multiplicative state-space model to capture non-harmonic periodic patterns in structural health monitoring; introduced AGVI for real-time uncertainty quantification in Bayesian ML models, reducing training time.
Graduate Research Assistant at McGill University
September 1, 2015 - March 1, 2018Enhanced statistical downscaling methods by integrating multiple techniques to project future climate scenarios; evaluated and optimized statistical models for daily/hourly downscaling.
Teaching Assistant at McGill University
August 31, 2016 - March 31, 2017Led tutorial sessions for Probabilistic Systems and Engineering System Analysis for 120 undergraduate Civil & Mining Engineering students.
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Ph.D. in Applied Machine Learning at Polytechnique Montreal
September 1, 2018 - December 1, 2022M.Eng. in Structural Engineering at McGill University
September 1, 2015 - March 1, 2018Qualifications
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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education
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