Rahil Merchant
@rahilmerchant
Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer delivering production-grade ML systems for real-time industrial and medical applications.
What I'm looking for
I am a Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer with close to 5 years of experience building and shipping high-performance systems from concept to production, specializing in real-time image analysis, object detection, OCR and edge deployment.
I've led cross-functional teams and delivered scalable solutions across industrial and healthcare domains — deploying real-time worker-safety monitoring, QA measurement systems, wagon tare validation, and smartphone-based diagnostic pipelines that processed hundreds of thousands of tests and video frames with high accuracy.
I design and productionize robust ML/Ops pipelines, optimize models for low-latency edge inference, and define observability and deployment standards that improve stability and reduce incident response time; I hold a B.Tech (Hons) in Computer Science with a machine learning minor and an issued patent for fluid sample analysis.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Ripik.ai
Oct 2025 - Present (5 months)
Owned end-to-end industrial computer vision systems, deploying real-time safety, QA, and monitoring solutions that improved detection accuracy and reduced manual inspection and reconciliation time by up to 60%. Standardized MLOps and observability, cutting model degradation response time to under 72 hours and reducing field failures ~40%.
Founding Backend & Computer Vision Engineer
Neodocs Healthcare
Jul 2021 - Sep 2025 (4 years 2 months)
As a founding engineer, designed and deployed scalable CV and ML pipelines for smartphone and server diagnostics supporting 700,000+ tests and real-time processing of 35+ biomarker assays, reducing incorrect uploads by 72% and handling 20,000+ daily requests on AWS-backed infrastructure.
Education
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SVKM NMIMS
Bachelor of Technology (Honours), Computer Science
2017 - 2021
Completed a Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Computer Science with a minor in Machine Learning and Data Analytics from 2017 to 2021.
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