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Basics

Name Abhilash Pal
Label Software Engineer
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2020.10 - Present

    Germany

    MSc
    Technische Universität München
    Informatik
  • 2016.08 - 2020.06

    India

    BTech
    SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    Computer Science

Awards

Publications

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.