ML Platform Engineer

Rajesh Dhanda

Senior MLE · Haleon  ·  ex-CARS24  ·  IIT Kanpur

I design and build scalable ML & LLM platforms that take prototypes to production — across RAG systems, agentic tools, and cloud-native inference infrastructure.

Experience
HALEON
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Apr 2024 – Present

Led MLOps & Agentic-RAG foundations for DS and GenAI services on Azure & Databricks across multiple product teams.

  • Global Consumer Help Center: AI search across 15+ brand help centers & 400+ brand websites spanning multiple countries, markets & languages — reducing cost and reliance on human agents
  • Procurement Contract Intelligence: AI-powered platform analyzing 11,000+ Contract IDs & 30,000+ contracts covering $7B third-party spend — enabling faster review, compliance visibility & time-cost savings
  • Commercial Tech: MLOps framework for Marketing Mix Models, scalable, repeatable modeling of brand, market–level sales drivers - used to optimize global marketing spend
  • MLOps and Agentic-RAG Foundation: Framework with code & detailed docs, used across Help Center, Contract AI, NRM, NBA, QSC and Commercial Tech projects
CARS24
Machine Learning Engineer
Sept 2021 – Apr 2024

Productionized DS, Data Engg, and BI services/pipelines on GCP (GKE, KServe, Triton, Airflow), implementing best practices, monitoring and cost optimization.

  • ML Platform — Serving: Migrated 30+ DS workloads to GKE; Inference Store: EdgeDB with 5ms latency across 10+ services; Feature Store: FastAPI + BigQuery + Redis with 10ms latency
  • Orchestration Platform: Airflow on GKE — 70+ git-synced DAGs, 1000+ daily runs, 3800+ task executions supporting DS-BI teams
  • Data Flow Pipeline: Syncing Data 2500 Sheets with 15000 Jobs/day. (Refer to Detailed Blog got cited in Modern Data Stack and Data Engineering Weekly)
  • NBFC DS Migration: AWS → GCP, monolith → GKE microservices, latency from 3s to 503ms (99.99%), eliminating 100% timeouts previously at 8–9%
DEEP SIGHT AI LABS / DOCBOT+
Computer Vision & AI Internships
Mar – Sept 2021

Object detection & tracking (DeepSort), healthcare symptom mapping algorithms, TFLite on Raspberry Pi.

  • Deep Sight AI Labs: Vehicle detection, tracking & counting using YOLOv4 + DeepSort on traffic surveillance footage
  • DocBot+: Healthcare symptom-to-disease mapping algorithms, TFLite model deployment on Raspberry Pi for edge inference

Let's build something.

Open to ML platform roles, consulting & collaborations.

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