Ravindra SSK — ML & AI Engineer

Open to ML & AI roles

I build and evaluate production ML & AI systems

Current focus roles cycle: ML & AI Engineer

ML & AI Engineer and graduate researcher designing, training, and evaluating end-to-end systems across LLM evaluation, computer vision, generative AI, and healthcare AI.

Digital profile Open to ML & AI roles

Current role

Handshake AI

AI Trainer · LLM Evaluation & Agentic Coding

  • Evaluate frontier LLMs comparatively on complex coding tasks
  • Design custom eval tasks in an agentic coding environment
  • Score models with detailed rationales against standardized criteria

Research

AI-CHESS Lab

Graduate AI Researcher · Saint Louis University · GPA 3.83

  • Research attention-based deep learning for image restoration (CNNs, ViTs, GANs)
  • Engineer dataset pipelines and reproducible PyTorch/TensorFlow training
  • Benchmark models on reconstruction quality and cross-scene generalization

Focus

Production ML

Systems from training through evaluation and deployment

Location

St. Louis

M.S. Artificial Intelligence

PyTorch LLM Evaluation Computer Vision FastAPI Deep Learning

Academic standing

3.83 GPA

M.S. Artificial Intelligence, Saint Louis University

Portfolio

7+ Projects

Agentic AI, healthcare AI, object detection, recommenders, LLM evaluation, and deep learning

Credential set

6+ Certifications

AWS ML, Azure AI, NVIDIA DLI, IBM Data Science, Anthropic AI Fluency, Claude 101

Experience

3+ Years

ML & AI roles, graduate research, internships, and applied project work

Featured ML & AI projects

Outcome-first builds across research and production

Representative projects across agentic AI, LLM evaluation, computer vision, and production ML systems.

Experience highlights

Where the work happens

Handshake AI · Apr 2026–Present

AI Trainer — LLM Evaluation

  • Evaluate frontier LLM outputs for coding and reasoning quality
  • Design prompts, rubrics, and golden references for benchmarking
  • Produce human-feedback signals used for model assessment

AI-CHESS Lab, SLU · Oct 2025–Mar 2026

Graduate AI Researcher — Computer Vision & Deep Learning

  • Research attention-based deep learning (CNNs, Vision Transformers, GANs) for image shadow removal and restoration
  • Engineer dataset pipelines — patch generation, augmentation, splits — with reproducible PyTorch/TensorFlow GPU training
  • Benchmark architectures on reconstruction quality, artifact reduction, and cross-scene generalization

Full experience timeline

About Ravindra

Building useful, reliable intelligent systems

I am an ML & AI Engineer and graduate researcher with hands-on experience designing, training, evaluating, and deploying end-to-end machine learning systems. My work brings together model evaluation, explainability, and MLOps to turn ideas into production-quality solutions.

More about me
Location St. Louis, MO
Role AI Trainer, Handshake AI · Graduate AI Researcher, AI-CHESS Lab
Education M.S. AI, SLU (GPA 3.83) — Jan 2025–Dec 2026
Undergrad B.Tech Civil Engineering, Vel Tech R&D — 2016–2020