# Yash Kumawat

Yash Kumawat is a remote worker on Himalayas, Co-founder & CTO at Rara AI, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@yashkumawat1

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AI product engineer and former Rara AI CTO who brought visual search for flooring brands into production.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 4500k+ INR |
| Job categories | Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision Engineer, Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer |
| Skills | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, LLM, RAG, NLP, Speech Recognition, Model Fine Tuning, MLOps, Image Segmentation, Ranking Model, Visual Search, fastAPI, AWS, PyTorch |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/y-kum |

## About

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At Rara AI, I built a visual search platform for flooring retail from its first version to production. Shoppers on US flooring brands’ websites can photograph a room and see matching floors from the brand’s catalogue.

I rebuilt the image pipeline for segmentation, ranking, and colour matching, and trained the ranking model behind carpet search. The platform was set up so new brands could launch without code changes.

At VISUALEZ, I led the team behind Instalook, a production service that matches tile designs to room descriptions dealers send by voice, mostly in Hindi. I fine-tuned a speech model on dealer recordings and rebuilt the service for speed and reliability, adding WhatsApp as a channel.
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## Experience

### Co-founder & CTO

Rara AI. Sep 2024 - Nov 2026

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Visual search for flooring retail, live on US flooring brands' websites, led by Engineered Floors.
• Built the platform from the first version to production, set up so a new brand can launch without code changes.
• Rebuilt the image pipeline (segmentation, ranking and colour matching) to make search more accurate and faster.
• Trained the ranking model behind carpet search.
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### AI Team Lead

VISUALEZ. Jun 2024 - Nov 2026

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Instalook: tile dealers describe a room by voice, mostly in Hindi, and get matching designs from the catalogue. In production since 2024.
• Replaced a manual design tool, which dealers needed training to use, with a single voice note.
• Fine-tuned a speech model on our own dealer recordings so it recognises tile names.
• Rebuilt the service for speed and reliability, and added WhatsApp as a channe
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### Software Developer

[Gloroots](https://himalayas.app/companies/gloroots). Aug 2023 - Jun 2024

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LLM-based candidate–job matching.
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### Full Stack Developer

Coffeee.io. Nov 2022 - Aug 2023

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Sales CRM.
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### Operations Manager

Paradym Logistics. Sep 2020 - Aug 2021

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Worked as Operations Manager at Paradym Logistics.
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### Research Assistant

Clensta. May 2019 - Jul 2019

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Worked as Research Assistant at Clensta.
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### Research And Development Specialist

CoinTribe Technologies. May 2015 - Jul 2015

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Worked as Research And Development Specialist at CoinTribe Technologies.
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## Education

### Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Dual Degree(B.Tech+M.Tech), Chemical Engineering

## Tech stack

- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Go
- C++
- MATLAB
- PyTorch
- FastAPI
- TypeScript
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Selenium WebDriver
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AWS
- REST APIs

To contact Yash, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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