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Nagesh Khichade

@nageshkhichade

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I build AWS data pipelines, lakehouses, and real-time streaming systems with Python and PySpark.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build cloud data pipelines, lakehouses, streaming systems, and GenAI/RAG solutions where I can own problems end-to-end and grow through hands-on engineering work.

I built a 10M+-record Yelp AWS Medallion Data Lakehouse at CDAC, transforming five semi-structured datasets into optimized Bronze, Silver, and Gold Parquet layers with AWS Glue, S3, Athena, EMR, PySpark, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.

As team lead for a six-person capstone team, I owned bronze-layer ingestion, EDA, and RAG-notebook development. I also diagnosed a Silver-to-Gold race condition and a broadcast-join out-of-memory failure in production Glue jobs.

At Manthan LLC, I owned an end-to-end pipeline for fine-tuning Google's Gemma model for visual product-attribute extraction in a content-moderation system, covering preprocessing, training, and evaluation.

I've also built Kafka-based fraud detection services and SQL/Python ETL workflows, including Power BI reporting that reduced manual report generation time by 40%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

AI/LLM Engineer

Manthan LLC

Sep 2025 - Feb 2026 (5 months)

Owned an end-to-end data pipeline for fine-tuning Google's Gemma model for visual product-attribute extraction, handling data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation for a content-moderation system.

Python data preprocessing Model Training Model Evaluation Google Gemma Content Moderation