Open to opportunities

Zalak Karnik

@zalakkarnik

Message

I build production RAG, machine learning, and financial risk systems.

India

Message

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build production AI and machine learning systems, especially RAG, LLM, forecasting, and risk-modeling products, with opportunities to take projects from POC to deployment and communicate technical trade-offs with stakeholders.

At Casepoint, I architect and deploy RAG pipelines for semantic search, Text-to-SQL, and document summarization, reducing manual review time by approximately 50% across three production use cases. I also designed hybrid BM25, vector search, and reranking retrieval that reduced irrelevant outputs by 40%.

Previously at L&T Finance, I improved loan-disbursement prediction accuracy by 15%, reduced fraud-detection time by 30%, and managed 50M+ financial records in BigQuery. I build end-to-end AI products, from multi-agent financial research platforms to Gemini-powered PDF chatbots, using Python, cloud ML platforms, and reliable retrieval systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Associate Data Scientist (Gen AI)

Current

Casepoint

Dec 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Architected and deployed RAG pipelines for semantic search, Text-to-SQL, and document summarization, reducing manual review time by ~50%. Engineered hybrid retrieval with BM25, vector search, and reranking, improving precision and reliability.