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Open to GenAI roles · Bengaluru, India

Harsha Mantrodi

I build production-grade GenAI systems — RAG pipelines, LLM apps, and the MLOps rails that keep them running.

The Story

From training models to running them in production

Most people pick one side — research or infrastructure. I deliberately learned both, because the models that matter are the ones that ship.

  1. 2022

    The Spark — AI/ML Student

    St. Joseph Engineering College, Mangalore

    Started a B.E. in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. What began as coursework became obsession — training first neural networks, losing weekends to Kaggle, and realising models in notebooks are only half the story.

  2. 2024

    Shipping, Not Just Training

    Future Interns · Elevate Labs

    Internships flipped the perspective from 'can I train it?' to 'can users rely on it?'. Built and deployed real ML features, learned CI/CD discipline, and discovered that the gap between a demo and a product is engineering.

  3. 2025

    The Infrastructure Chapter

    MATRIQZ AI, Bengaluru — DevOps Engineer Trainee

    Went deep on the rails AI runs on: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins pipelines. Deploying other people's models taught me exactly what breaks in production — knowledge most model-builders never get.

  4. Now

    GenAI Engineer — Full Loop

    LLM apps · RAG systems · MLOps

    Combining both halves: designing RAG architectures with LangChain and Qdrant, then shipping them behind FastAPI on cloud-native infrastructure. From prompt to pod, I own the whole loop.

Capabilities

A stack built for shipping AI

Three layers, one loop: generative systems on top, ML and APIs in the middle, cloud-native infrastructure underneath.

GenAI & LLM

Retrieval, orchestration, and prompt systems for production LLM apps.

  • 92
    LangChain
  • 85
    LangGraph
  • 90
    RAG
  • 93
    Prompt Engineering
  • 90
    OpenAI
  • 84
    Gemini
  • 88
    Qdrant
  • 82
    FAISS

ML & Backend

Model training and the APIs that serve them.

  • 94
    Python
  • 90
    FastAPI
  • 84
    PyTorch
  • 80
    TensorFlow

MLOps & Cloud

The rails that keep models alive in production.

  • 91
    Docker
  • 85
    Kubernetes
  • 86
    AWS
  • 83
    Jenkins
  • 88
    GitHub Actions
  • 89
    Linux

Track Record

Where I've been putting it to work

  1. DevOps Engineer Trainee

    MATRIQZ AIBengaluru

    2025 — Present
    • Containerising AI services with Docker and orchestrating them on Kubernetes
    • Building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions for ML workloads
    • Managing AWS infrastructure — EC2, S3, IAM — for model deployment
    • Monitoring, logging, and hardening production AI systems
  2. ML Intern

    Future InternsRemote

    2024
    • Built and evaluated ML models end-to-end on real business datasets
    • Delivered analysis and model reports that shaped feature decisions
  3. AI/ML Intern

    Elevate LabsRemote

    2024
    • Prototyped AI features and shipped them into user-facing demos
    • Worked in Git-based team workflow with code reviews and sprints

Selected Work

Projects that ship, not just demo

Each one covers the full loop — a real problem, a working system, and the architecture that keeps it running.

RAG-powered repair assistant

iFixRAG

  • LangChain
  • Qdrant
  • GPT-4o
  • FastAPI
  • Python

ProblemDevice repair knowledge is scattered across thousands of unstructured guides — impossible to search when your phone is in pieces on the table.

SolutionA retrieval-augmented chatbot that ingests repair manuals into a vector store and answers step-by-step repair questions with cited sources, grounded in the actual guides.

ArchitectureDocs → chunking + embeddings → Qdrant vector store → LangChain retriever → GPT-4o generation with source citations, served over FastAPI.

Generative brand identity engine

BrandEngine AI

  • SDXL
  • LoRA
  • PyTorch
  • FastAPI
  • Docker

ProblemEarly-stage founders need logo and brand assets fast, but designers are expensive and generic AI images ignore brand consistency.

SolutionA fine-tuned SDXL LoRA pipeline that generates on-brand logo concepts from a text brief, with style controls for palette, mood, and industry.

ArchitectureBrief → prompt templating → SDXL + custom LoRA weights → post-processing & upscaling → asset variants, orchestrated behind a FastAPI service.

AgriTech marketplace intelligence

KisanMandi

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • ML
  • React
  • PostgreSQL

ProblemFarmers sell at whatever price the nearest middleman quotes — with zero visibility into real mandi (market) rates across regions.

SolutionAn AgriTech platform surfacing live crop prices across markets with ML-backed price trends, helping farmers decide where and when to sell.

ArchitectureMarket data ingestion → cleaning + trend models → REST API → responsive web client with regional language support.

Kubernetes-deployed NLP service

Cloud Native Sentiment Analysis

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • FastAPI

ProblemSentiment models usually die in notebooks — real products need them autoscaling behind an API with zero-downtime deploys.

SolutionA sentiment analysis microservice packaged as a cloud-native app: containerised, orchestrated on Kubernetes, and continuously delivered through a CI/CD pipeline.

ArchitectureTransformer sentiment model → FastAPI inference service → Docker image → Kubernetes deployment on AWS with Jenkins CI/CD and health probes.

Real-time computer vision

Hand Gesture Recognition

  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • MediaPipe
  • Python

ProblemTouchless interfaces need gesture input that works in real time on commodity hardware — no depth cameras, no lag.

SolutionA real-time hand gesture recognition system using landmark detection and a lightweight classifier, mapping gestures to actions at webcam frame rates.

ArchitectureWebcam stream → hand landmark extraction → keypoint features → CNN classifier → action mapping, optimised for real-time inference.

  • Python
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Qdrant
  • FAISS
  • FastAPI
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Python
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Qdrant
  • FAISS
  • FastAPI
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Vercel
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Vercel
  • Git

Proof of Work

Certifications & credentials

AWS Cloud Certification

Amazon Web Services

Cloud fundamentals, compute, storage, and deployment on AWS.

Google Cloud Badges

Google Cloud

Hands-on skill badges across GCP compute and ML services.

Machine Learning Specialization

Stanford Online · Coursera

Andrew Ng's ML specialization — supervised, unsupervised & best practices.

Virtual Experience Programs

Forage

Industry job simulations in software engineering and data.

Always Building

GitHub, in numbers

Pulled live from the GitHub API — no vanity widgets, just the actual data.

Most used languages

Across public repositories

  • Python52%
  • Jupyter Notebook24%
  • TypeScript12%
  • HTML7%
  • Shell5%
15+Public repos
Followers
5Featured projects
ShippingStatus

Let's Talk

Have an AI problem worth solving?

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