Get to Know Me

About

Passionate AI engineer focused on building impactful systems that drive real business value.

I specialize in applied AI, from optimizing smaller LLMs with supervised fine-tuning to designing multi-agent systems and adaptive assistants with memory and reasoning. I’m pursuing my Master’s in Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology and have built AI systems that power enterprises and solve real business problems. My work focuses on making advanced AI methods practical and valuable in real-world applications.

I believe AI should help people achieve more — that’s what drives my work.

Areas of Focus

Fine-Tuning LLMs
AI Research & Development
Building Multi-Agent Systems
Competing in Hackathons
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Shipped AI Projects

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Years Experience

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What Shapes My Work

Core Principles

The principles I return to when making tough decisions, solving problems, and shaping my work.

1

Have a high Signal-Noise Ratio

Focus on 3 things that needs to be achieved in the next 18 hours that move your mission forward; everything else is noise.

2

Own the outcome

Take full responsibility for the work. Act with initiative, solve problems proactively, and drive lasting impact as if the entire mission depends on you.

3

Be User Obsessed

Place the end-user at the core of every decision. Design, build, and measure success based on the real-world impact delivered to them.

4

Stay Curious

Technologies evolve fast. Explore, experiment, and keep your knowledge sharp.

5

Build for Impact

Go beyond just writing code. Build solutions that move the needle, simplify lives, or create measurable value.

6

Deliver, Then Refine

Move fast to deliver initial value, then refine for efficiency, reliability, and polish.

7

Master the 4A Feedback Loop

Give feedback that Aims to Assist and is Actionable; receive feedback with Appreciation, then thoughtfully Accept or Discard it.

Innovation Under Pressure

Hackathons

Converting "impossible" prompts into "impressive" demos, one all-nighter at a time.

OpenAI Realtime voice x Reasoning Hackathon

February 2025
New York, NY
New Media Item

Hackathon Highlights

8 members

Lawgic AI

Top 10

Lawgic AI is a voice-based AI that allows users to call in, describe their legal issue, and get instantly matched with the top 3 relevant lawyers. The system collects and summarizes case details, presents them to lawyers for acceptance, and connects the client with the best available match, streamlining the process of finding legal help in real time.


My Responsibilities
  • Brainstormed and defined the project concept, workflow, and end-to-end system design with the team
  • Built and implemented the GPT-4o Realtime model for real-time voice understanding and reasoning
  • Integrated Twilio Voice and Media Streams for interactive voice communication
  • Developed a hybrid search and matching system to identify and connect users with the most relevant lawyers from a pool of 1000+
  • Summarized and transmitted case details to lawyers before client handoff to streamline connections

My Achievements
  • Built MVP in 24 hours
  • Applied AI to streamline legal assistance, enabling users to describe cases via voice and instantly connect with top-matched lawyers.

TwilioPythonVector DatabasesGPT 4o-realtime

Google Gemini CLI Hackathon

September 2025
New York, NY
New Media Item

Hackathon Highlights

2 members

Codeglance

Finalist

CodeGlance is an MCP server powered by Gemini that analyzes GitHub repositories and auto-generates detailed documentation, architecture flow, and file insights — making it easier for developers to quickly understand and navigate unfamiliar codebases


My Responsibilities
  • Identified challenges developers face when exploring unfamiliar GitHub repositories and conceptualized a solution to simplify codebase understanding
  • Designed and built CodeGlance, an MCP server compatible with AI coding tools (Gemini CLI, Cloud Code, Codex, Cursor) to auto-generate structured documentation and architecture insights.
  • Delivered an AI-powered workflow that provides developers with repository overviews, file hierarchies, and guided exploration paths, significantly reducing onboarding and review time

My Achievements
  • Built MVP in 4 hours
  • Transitioned from using MCP servers to creating fully functional, scalable MCP servers with industry-standard practices

Model Context Protocol (MCP)LLMsTypeScriptCoding Agents

Open Source Computer Vision Hackathon

June 2025
New York, NY
New Media Item

Hackathon Highlights

3 members

Snap-to-Report

Finalist

Identified a real-world civic problem and developed an AI-powered solution to automate complaint reporting, making the process faster, easier, and more accessible for new yorkers


My Responsibilities
  • Fine-tuned the Moondream image understanding model on complaint-specific data (illegal parking, unclear trash, etc.) to improve issue detection accuracy
  • Designed and implemented a sequential AI pipeline using LLaMA 4 to automatically generate structured reports aligned with NYC Open Data complaint taxonomy
  • Developed a real-time visualization dashboard allowing users to view filed complaints on a map, enabling informed decision-making and easier navigation

My Achievements
  • Built MVP in 24 hours
  • Applied AI to solve a real-world problem, automating NYC complaint submissions and enhancing user accessibility

Next.jsTypeScriptGoogle Maps APIMoondreamLLMs
Awards & Recognition
Best use of AI
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Professional Journey

Work Experience

Building AI systems and driving innovation across startups and enterprises.

Founding AI/ML Engineer

Recruit Magic INC.

Internship
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
New York, NY

Mastered end-to-end AI product development from concept to production, learning to build autonomous systems that bridge business requirements with technical implementation

Key Achievements:
  • Built an AI system that auto-implements n8n no-code workflows as production-ready Typescript
  • preserving design accessibility while gaining code-first benefits such as long-running job support for AI tasks
  • accurately reengineered 60+ complex business workflows
  • Saved $3600/year by developing domain-specific neural network classifiers
  • Accelerated feature development by ~50% using context engineering with Claude Code and Gemini CLI
Context EngineeringCloudFlarePostgreSQLData PipelinesNeural Networks

AI/ML Engineer

SquareYards

Full-Time
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Mumbai, MH
Gained expertise in scaling AI systems for enterprise environments, learning to optimize performance under high-traffic loads while driving measurable business impact
Key Achievements:
  • Awards: Young Talent of the Year and Top performer of the quarter
  • Built a multi-agent chatbot handling 10K+ queries/sec, driving property recommendations and $1M+ monthly revenue.
  • Built an AI copilot using Redis and LLMs to help sales teams with real-time recommendations, improving closure rates by 10%
  • Optimized LLM serving with vLLM reducing GPU memory by 36% and improving concurrency by 2x
Vector DatabasesLLMsMongoDBFastAPILangChainNextJSTypeScriptPythonPrompt EngineeringAzure

Machine Learning Engineer

Taiyō.AI

Internship
Mar 2023 - May 2023
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Learned to integrate LLMs with enterprise search systems, mastering the art of making large-scale data accessible through natural language interfaces and building efficient data pipelines
Key Achievements:
  • Mapped 30,000+ raw categories using HuggingFace Sentence Transformers
  • Achieved 30% improvement in ML pipeline efficiency through automation
  • Reduced manual data processing effort by 50% using NER and POS tagging
PythonElasticsearchHuggingFaceNLPML Pipeline

Software Engineer

International Association For Human Values India (IAHV)

Internship
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Learned to rapidly adapt to new technologies while building systems that improve operational efficiency
Key Achievements:
  • Developed fully automated module in Dart to create Heat-Map visualization for watershed management
  • Fetched project data such as location, status, and name from real-time database
  • Used Google Maps API to display visualizations on Google Map interface
  • Streamlined process by generating markers for all project locations improving user experience
  • Successfully deployed the Application on Google Play Store
DartFlutterGoogle Maps APIReal-time DatabaseGoogle Play Store

Data Analyst

The Art of Living

Internship
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Gained foundational skills in data analysis, visualization techniques, and transforming raw data into actionable insights
Key Achievements:
  • Used Google Earth Pro and CAD Designing to trace Maharashtra's districts with precision
  • Played key role in analyzing water resources in tehsils of Maharashtra
  • Generated comprehensive maps using AutoCAD that informed decision-making processes
Google Earth ProAutoCADComputer-Aided Design (CAD)GIS
My Work

Projects

From fine-tuned LLMs to multi-agent AI systems and full-stack applications.

AI/ML

Clarity AI

Clarity AI turns YouTube’s vast educational content into structured, interactive learning experiences. It uses advanced natural language processing to transform long-form videos into engaging, organized study materials—making passive watching an active way to learn.

TypeScriptNext.jsOpen Source ModelsMongoDB
AI/ML

Cognius-1B: Fine Tuned LLM for better reasoning

Achieved 9% improvement in reasoning accuracy over Llama-3.2-1B using supervised fine-tuning

PyTorchHuggingFaceLLaMAGPT-4oClaude 3.7Supervised Fine-TuningLoRATokenization
Machine Learning

Vault-8B

Fine-tuned Llama 3 (8B) using PyTorch and 4-bit QLoRA to optimize RAG performance on finance dataset and GPU memory, implementing tokenization and adapter merging to reduce VRAM usage by ~60% and enable high-throughput on a single T4 GPU.

PythonPyTorchLlama 3 (8B)TransformersPEFTbitsandbytesQLoRACUDA
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Recognition & Achievements

Awards & Honors

Industry recognition for innovation, performance excellence, and competitive achievements.

Stevens IT Hackathon- Top 10

Stevens Institute of Technology

2024

Young Talent of the Year

SquareYards

Apr 2024

Top Performer of the Quarter

SquareYards

Dec 2023

Professional Development

Certifications

Industry-recognized credentials demonstrating continuous learning and expertise.

AWS Academy Graduate - Cloud Foundations

Amazon Web Services

October 2025

AWS Academy Graduate - AWS Academy Cloud Data Pipeline Builder

Amazon Web Services

May 2025

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

Stanford University / Coursera

December 2022

Advanced Learning Algorithms

Stanford University / Coursera

February 2023

Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

Stanford University / Coursera

April 2023

Machine Learning Specialization

Stanford University / Coursera

December 2022

Introduction to Image Generation

Google Cloud

March 2024
Technical Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Proficiency across languages, frameworks, AI/ML tools, and cloud technologies.

Languages

Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
C++
Java

Frontend

React
Next.js
HTML/CSS
Tailwind CSS

Backend

MongoDB
PostgreSQL
FastAPI
Trigger.dev
Firebase

Tools & DevOps

Git
Docker
AWS
Postman
Current Focus

Applied AI Research

Current focus on building, optimizing, and deploying intelligent systems

Optimizing Smaller LLMs

PyTorch • LoRA • Quantization

Enhancing performance of compact models through advanced fine-tuning and optimization techniques

Model Context Protocol

MCP • Claude • JSON-RPC

Exploring MCPs to create seamless AI-tool integrations and extensible agent architectures

Adaptive AI Assistants

Memory Systems • RAG • LangChain

Building AI assistants that remember past conversations and get better over time

Academic Journey

Education

Advanced Computer Science studies with focus on AI, machine learning, and data systems.

Stevens Institute of Technology

M.S. in Computer Science

Sept 2024 - May 2026
Hoboken, NJ

Relevant Coursework

Deep LearningAlgorithmsCloud ComputingBig Data TechnologiesNatural Language ProcessingData MiningPattern RecognitionMathematical Foundations of Machine LearningConcurrent Programming

Mumbai University

B.E. in Information Technology

Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Mumbai, India

Relevant Coursework

Mathematics & StatisticsApplied PhysicsDatabase Management SystemsData StructuresSoftware EngineeringIoTCybersecurityInformation Retrieval SystemsProject ManagementDevOps
Research & Publications

Publications

Peer-reviewed research in air quality prediction and IoT-based health monitoring systems.

PEER-REVIEWED
International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
May 2022

Analysis and Prediction of Air Quality in India

Research Authors

Harshil PatelUsashi RoyTushar Gada

Publication Details

Journal ArticleVol. 09Issue 05pp. 150-156
PEER-REVIEWED
Mat Journals
September 2020

Smart Heart Rate Monitoring System Using Arduino Uno

Research Authors

Harshil PatelUsashi RoyVidhi Shah

Publication Details

Journal ArticleVol. 5Issue 3pp. 12-18
Professional Endorsements

Recommendations

What colleagues and leaders say about working with me.

Vivek Agarwal

Co-Founder & CTO at Square Yards

April 2025
Vivek managed Harshil directly
I had the pleasure of working with Harshil during his time as an AI Engineer at Square Yards, and I was consistently impressed by his passion for AI/ML and his drive to build impactful, end-to-end AI systems. Harshil has a solid grasp of a wide range of model architectures, and more importantly, he brings a thoughtful approach to applying them in real-world scenarios. What really stood out was his ability to deeply understand a problem—not just from a technical angle, but from a business perspective as well. This balance allowed him to propose solutions that were both innovative and practical. Any team would be lucky to have him—he's the kind of engineer who not only builds models, but also helps shape the vision of what AI can do for the business.
Let's Connect

Get In Touch

Open to AI/ML opportunities, collaborations, and innovative project discussions.

Let's work together

I'm always excited to take on new challenges and collaborate with amazing people. Whether you have a project in mind, want to discuss opportunities, or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out!

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