👋 Hey, I'm Pratik

GenAI & NLP Engineer | Building AI Communities

🚀 About Me

Hello! I’m an AI engineer at Galileo, with a strong track record of building AI systems. My passion is turning cutting-edge research into real-world impact and I thrive on tackling ambitious AI challenges from prototype to production.

• Startup experience: Designed and implemented mission-critical search and AI at Taskhuman and Enterpret. I am currently leading open-source AI agent evaluation. My RAG evaluation research was featured in Andrew Ng's newsletter.
• Enterprise leadership: Launched end-to-end AI initiatives from the ground up at Morningstar.
• Public presence:
  • Interview with Latent Space podcast
  • Gave talks at international communities
  • 23k followers on LinkedIn
  • 3k followers on Twitter
• Open source:
  • Agent Leaderboard: Framework for evaluating LLMs-based enterprise support agents
  • BRAG: A series of high-performance open-source LLMs for RAG.
• Recognition: Named one of the Top AI Developers to Watch in 2023.
• Community: Built Max, a research assistant for my Discord community Maxpool.
• Hacking:
  • 1st prize in every company-hosted hackathon at Galileo, Morningstar, Enterpret
  • Placed in the top 20 nationally in Microsoft’s Search Ranking challenge
  • Ranked among the top 20 teams in the SEMEVAL competition
• My books on GenAI:
  • Mastering Agents
  • Mastering RAG
  • Mastering LLM-as-a-Judge

I share tech and business insights on my Substack newsletter: pakodas.substack.com
Much of my old content is categorized at blogs.pratik.ai.

I have worked on a variety of domains and projects:

• Agent evaluation
• RAG dataset, evaluation & training
• Few-shot hyper classification
• Semantic search (multi-stage)
• Elasticsearch (search and recommendation engine)
• Algorithmic trading with ML

Here are some of my old hackathon stories: What happens at a hackathon?

Get in Touch

The best way to reach me is through Twitter / LinkedIn.

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