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Harsha VardhanAI Engineer
India --:-- ISTCV ↓

Work experience

LVL-UP SPORTS AI

0.94
F1 ball detection
60k+
labelled frames
85–90%
stroke accuracy
₹60
GPU inference / hour
All details: LVL-UP SPORTS AI

Additional metric

  • ₹60 — GPU inference / hour
  • Managed a four-member team and delivered the racquet-sport analytics product end-to-end, from prototype to on-court use.
  • Design and deliver an end-to-end computer-vision pipeline for racquet-sport match analysis, spanning ball and player tracking, court calibration, pose-based stroke classification, and rally segmentation.
  • Established live-court data acquisition and an annotation workflow using on-court camera installations and multi-camera stereo setups; curated a 60,000+ frame labelled dataset for ball, bounce, and stroke events.
  • Trained detection and classification models achieving 0.94 F1 for ball detection on held-out match footage; pose-based stroke detection sustains 85–90% accuracy on live match play.
  • Architected a modular analytics engine combining six perception streams (court, players, pose, ball, racket, swing) into shot- and rally-level events with confidence scores and physics-based validation.
  • Optimized GPU inference economics to approximately ₹60 (~$0.70) per hour of footage.

FID · Harsha wired me with YOLO, TrackNet and event-based classification to track court, players, pose, ball, racket and swing. I call every bounce. Still can't serve.

STYLIQUE AI

20+
garment types
~30%
less manual pattern-making time
6
engineers led
All details: STYLIQUE AI
  • Led a six-person engineering team from research prototypes to market release for an AI garment pattern-making and simulation platform.
  • Built an end-to-end pipeline converting natural-language design briefs into production-ready garment patterns (DXF/PDF) across 20+ garment types using LLM-based parameter extraction, a rule-driven pattern engine, and ASTM-standard sizing.
  • Engineered GPU-accelerated XPBD cloth simulation using NVIDIA Warp and validation checks for drape behaviour against reference garments and physical measurements.
  • Developed diffusion-based garment design synthesis and a multimodal system mapping text briefs, sketches, and reference garments to executable pattern-drafting actions, reducing manual pattern-making time by ~30%.
  • Containerized application components with Docker and used CI/CD workflows to support repeatable builds, testing, and release deployment.

FID · Harsha gave me world models, diffusion, XPBD cloth on NVIDIA Warp and production-ready, tailorable DXF patterns for 20+ garment types. I still can't sew.

MIQ DIGITAL

−13%
CPM
+40%
impressions
$12M
sales supported, H1 2025
All details: MIQ DIGITAL

Product Data Analyst · Jun 2024 – Jun 2025

  • Owned end-to-end development of internal product suites for DOOH, social, and cross-channel advertising, supporting US sales and campaign teams with budget and performance insights.
  • Launched a DOOH sales-intelligence tool for screen availability, impression forecasting, and budget optimization across audience, geography, proximity, and venue filters; supported $9M in sales in 2024 and $12M in H1 2025.
  • Automated paid-social campaign workflows from initiation and budget allocation to performance dashboards, saving ~10 hours per week and driving $3M in 2024 revenue, with $7M projected for 2025.
  • Built a beta cross-channel budget-allocation engine using machine learning and reinforcement learning across audio, video, display, CTV, and LTV; contributed to $2M in sales and adoption on campaigns for Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Target.
  • Integrated an interactive chatbot to explain and visualize budget allocations, improving internal adoption and client confidence.

Product Data Scientist (Intern) · Jan 2024 – Jun 2024

  • Developed a Connected TV CPM-optimization model that reduced CPM by 13% and increased impressions by 40%.
  • Delivered a Feature Intelligence Dashboard providing granular campaign-performance insights, adopted by 5+ daily active users.
  • Streamlined data preprocessing and storage on AWS S3 and performed pre/post effectiveness analysis to validate campaign-level lift.

FID · Harsha built my ML and RL engine that splits budgets across audio, video, display, CTV and LTV, plus a DOOH forecaster behind $12M in H1 2025. Still no billboard.

Two roles at this company.

Projects

Selected work

FID · Three things Harsha shipped outside his day jobs. Real screens where he has them; my sketches where he does not.

FULL-STACK + APPLIED AI

Vinayaga Timbers ERP

Production ERP for a four-plant export packaging manufacturer, with Tesseract OCR invoice scanning and bilingual voice input

34
tables
4
plants
47
staff users
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tesseract OCR
  • RBAC
  • 2FA
Open case
Vinayaga Timbers ERP screen 1 of 3Real screens

WEB DEVELOPMENT

PicklePaddle India

A trending, successful e-commerce website for pickleball and paddle gear, serving 2000+ customers across India

2000+
customers
10 lakhs+
sales
India
shipping
  • Parallel processing
  • Threading
  • Concurrent users
  • Safe payment processing
  • Booking & order flows
  • Race-safe inventory
  • Admin dashboards
  • Database design
Open case
PicklePaddle India screen 1 of 5Real screens

RESUME INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM

BigCJobs

AI-powered talent repository with RAG search over ~20,000 resumes, built on an Agentic Harness system

~20k
resumes processed
8–10 h/wk
saved per HR employee
  • Python
  • OCR
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • Vector Search
  • PostgreSQL
  • LLM extraction
Open case
Resume Intelligence Platform screen 1 of 3Real screens

Skills

Technical skills

  • Think

    Diffusion models · World models · Text-to-pattern generation

    Used in Stylique

  • See & simulate

    NVIDIA Warp · XPBD cloth simulation · GPU-accelerated pipelines

    Used in Stylique

  • Think

    LLM parameter extraction · Agentic Harness · Structured extraction

    Used in Stylique, BigCJobs

  • Think

    Embeddings · Vector search · Retrieval over ~20,000 resumes

    Used in BigCJobs

  • Steer

    Reinforcement learning · scikit-learn · Predictive modelling · A/B testing

    Used in MIQ

  • Think

    Agentic Harness · Document ingestion · OCR fallback

    Used in BigCJobs

  • Ship

    Python · SQL · PostgreSQL · Concurrency

    Used in MIQ, BigCJobs, Vinayaga ERP, PicklePaddle

  • See & simulate

    PyTorch · TensorFlow · Diffusion models

    Used in Lvl-Up, Stylique

  • Think

  • Think

  • Ship

    FastAPI · RBAC · 2FA

    Used in Vinayaga ERP

  • See & simulate

    YOLO · TrackNet · Pose estimation · Stereo vision · Camera calibration · Tesseract OCR

    Used in Lvl-Up, Vinayaga ERP

  • Think

  • Ship

    Docker · CI/CD · GPU inference optimisation

    Used in Stylique, Lvl-Up

  • Steer

    Databricks · PySpark · Delta Lake · AWS S3

    Used in MIQ

Education

Education & credentials

M.Sc. Data Science (5-Year Integrated)

Coimbatore Institute of Technology · 2019 – 2024

8.81
CGPA / 10

Certificates

  1. IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
  2. DeepLearning.AI: Neural Networks and LLMs
  3. Stanford University: Machine Learning
  4. Computer Vision Bootcamp
  5. Generative AI (Udemy)

Publication

Predictive Modelling and Spatiotemporal Trend Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Data-Driven Forecasting Study

International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology

I'm Harsha, an AI engineer based in India. I like problems where a model has to work in the real world, not just in a notebook.

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