Generative AI · Data systems · Human curiosity

I build useful intelligence for messy worlds.

I’m Kislay Kashyap — an engineer who likes hard problems, clean systems, and work with a pulse. This is part portfolio, part lab notebook, part self-portrait.

Current mode: turning ambiguity into something shippable.
DATA LANGUAGE SYSTEMS CURIOSITY K/631 — 00.01
GENAI SYSTEMS✦RAG EVALUATION✦DATA ENGINEERING✦PRODUCT THINKING✦CLEAR WRITING✦
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Not a résumé

I’m interested in the point where engineering becomes judgment — where a system stops being merely clever and starts becoming useful.

I like complexity only when it earns its place. I care about the last 10%: the part that makes a system reliable, explainable, and pleasant to use.

My best work happens between disciplines — engineering, product, editorial thinking, and the awkward real-world context that never fits neatly in a ticket.

01 / SIGNAL

Find the thing that matters.

More data is not automatically more insight. I design for signal, relevance, and decisions.

02 / CRAFT

Make the invisible feel obvious.

Good architecture, observability, and language should make a complex system easier to trust.

03 / MOTION

Ship, measure, sharpen.

Momentum matters. So does knowing when speed is creating debt instead of progress.

02 / SELECTED SYSTEMS

Work that had to work.

Selected chapters, not an exhaustive archive. The details are simplified; the outcomes are real.

02 — EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE RAG / RELIABILITY

Evaluation that makes RAG honest.

Designed a reusable evaluation framework across retrieval quality, response accuracy, latency, cost, and traceability — so teams could experiment faster without lowering the bar.

LangChainFAISSCI/CDPythonObservability
60%less manual evaluation
3×experimentation throughput
35%less debugging time
03 — INDEPENDENT BUILD LLM PRODUCT

A résumé that rewrites itself — responsibly.

Built an LLM-powered tailoring platform that parses source documents, adapts content to a role, and generates polished LaTeX PDFs with configurable similarity controls.

FlaskOpenAILaTeXAWS EC2S3
70% less manual tailoring effort Human judgment remains in the loop.
03 / THE PATH SO FAR

Career, but human.

Three roles. One recurring theme: use language, data, and software to make difficult knowledge easier to act on.

The conventional version
  1. 2025 — NOW

    Data Scientist · Generative AI

    LTIMindtree

    Enterprise intelligence systems, large-scale data pipelines, LLM workflows, performance, reliability, and the judgment layer between all of them.
  2. 2023 — 2025

    Software Engineer · Generative AI

    Persistent Systems

    RAG evaluation, traceability, automated experiments, backend services, AWS, and reusable foundations that made teams move faster.
  3. 2023

    Machine Learning Intern

    Josh Software

    NLP, BERT, GPT-3, vector search, summarization, and the first real proof that language systems could become a career.
04 / OPERATING SYSTEM

How my brain likes to work.

No productivity mythology. Just a few patterns that keep showing up.

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Messy inputs

Unstructured data. Vague business asks. Conflicting signals. Half-known constraints.

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Structured curiosity

Ask sharper questions. Prototype the smallest truth. Measure. Simplify. Repeat.

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Useful systems

Reliable enough for production. Clear enough to explain. Human enough to adopt.

Clarity is kindness.

Quality compounds.

Curiosity needs deadlines.

Not building is also a decision.

05 / LIVE-ISH STUDIO FEED

A page should feel alive.

This is a playful, curated simulation of the kinds of things usually moving through my head — not a surveillance feed, not a productivity score.

BUILD THINK TUNE SHIP
KISLAY / STUDIO_STREAM
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stream active local time
› watching for the next useful signal
06 / TOOLKIT

Tools are temporary.
Good judgment travels.

Python OpenAI Databricks FastAPI PySpark LangChain FAISS AWS Docker Spark SQL Hugging Face Flask GitHub Actions Pandas Scikit-learn
99.2CAT percentile
8.7CSE CGPA
∞questions still open
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Open channel

Let’s build something that deserves to exist.

Good conversations are welcome — especially around GenAI, data systems, product-minded engineering, or an unusually difficult problem.