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Basics
Name | Abhilash Pal |
Label | Software Engineer |
abhilashpal8@gmail.com | |
Phone | +49 0157373100 |
Summary | Software Engineer with an MSc in Informatik from TU München, and hands-on experience in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, cloud infrastructure, and GenAI services. Experienced in robust, secure deployment of ML and backend systems, with interests in research and applied AI. |
Work
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2024.11 - Present Software Engineer
iABG
Managing and maintaining VM infrastructure, robust access control, high-availability nginx servers, container orchestration, API security, and monitoring for GenAI services. Leading modular chatbot development and document comparison tooling.
- Managed virtual machine infrastructure and implemented access control
- Ensured high availability and security for nginx servers
- Orchestrated service containerization with health checks and auto-healing
- Designed and maintained secure API infrastructure
- Implemented monitoring solutions for GenAI services (Prometheus)
- Led modularization of a general-purpose chatbot with experimental features
- Developed a Document Comparison tool for change analysis and compliance
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2023.06 - 2023.09 Werkstudent (NLP/Robust Deep Learning)
iABG
Worked with LLMs for code generation, topic modeling, and RAG projects. Maintained and extended coding assistant and general chatbot for internal teams.
- Utilized LLMs for code generation and topic modeling
- Built and maintained internal coding assistant
- Extended assistant to a general chatbot
- Developed RAG project for extracting evidence from knowledge bases
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2021.10 - 2023.03 Werkstudent: Applied Scientist, Speech Recognition
Microsoft
Worked on ASR, Sign Language Recognition, and tools for Azure ML Services. Contributed to customer-driven tool adaptation, sign language data analysis, and published research.
- Worked on ASR and Sign Language Recognition for Azure ML
- Adapted internal testing tools for customer requirements
- Worked on signer overlap detection and clustering for sign language corpora
- Contributed to two research papers
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2021.04 - 2021.09 IDP Student
Convaise UG
Researched text generation using SOTA models (GPT2, Prophetnet, T5, Pegasus), focused on multilingual question generation and paraphrasing.
- Worked on text generation with GPT2, Prophetnet, T5, Pegasus
- Main focus: multilingual question generation & paraphrasing
- Worked with Huggingface, Pytorch, Colab, AWS Sagemaker
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2019.12 - 2020.08 NLP Intern
Citrusberry Business Solutions
Trained GPT2 for product description generation for e-commerce clients. Scraped and processed datasets.
- Trained GPT2 for product description generation
- Scraped and cleaned text data for datasets
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2019.05 - 2019.07 Summer Research Intern
Indian Statistical Institute
Built an OCR system for Bengali script using CNN-RNN-CTC pipeline under Dr. Utpal Garain.
- Built OCR using CNN-RNN-CTC for historical Bengali documents
- Scraped Bengali news sites for dataset creation
Education
Awards
- 2022.12.01
- 2019.01.01
First Prize, IET Hackathon 2019
SRM University KTR
Worked on an incentivised parking solution with RFID and numberplate detection.
Publications
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2023.03.20 -
2020.06.01 Musenet: Music Generation using Abstractive and Generative Methods
International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering
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2019.01.01 ConciseNet: An End to End Abstractive Model for Topic Generation
International Journal of Engineering Applied Science and Technology
Skills
Programming | |
C | |
C++ | |
Python | |
Javascript | |
Bash |
Deep Learning Tools | |
Pytorch | |
Scikit-learn | |
Tensorflow | |
Huggingface | |
vLLM | |
Langchain | |
BERTopic | |
MLFlow | |
FastAPI |
Cloud | |
Azure | |
AWS Sagemaker |
Operating Systems | |
Linux | |
Windows |
Other Tools | |
Docker | |
Slurm Workload Manager |
Languages
English | |
Fluent |
Hindi | |
Native speaker |
Interests
Research | |
Machine Learning | |
Natural Language Processing | |
Computer Vision | |
Robustness | |
Interpretability |
Projects
- - Present
Coding Assistant & General Chatbot (iABG)
Built and maintained a coding assistant for employees, extended into a general-purpose chatbot, integrating RAG and monitoring for improvements.
- LLM-based assistant
- RAG for evidence extraction
- - Present
Document Comparison Tool (iABG)
Developed a tool to analyze and report changes between document versions, identify inconsistencies, and support compliance workflows.
- - Present
OCR for Bengali Script (ISI Kolkata)
Built an OCR system for Bengali historical documents using CNN-RNN-CTC architecture.