Closing a Chapter, Opening a New One

Closing a Chapter, Opening a New One 🚀

Today marks my last day as an AI Software Engineer at Solico Group, where I had the incredible opportunity to contribute to an exciting new startup initiative — Zhinto.

During my time here, I worked on a variety of challenging and impactful projects that pushed the boundaries of applied AI in real-world systems. Some highlights from my journey include:

• Developed a fully concurrent RAG pipeline integrating state-of-the-art chunking and retrieval strategies with a vector database — boosting retrieval speed by 80%.
• Built and deployed a production-grade API using FastAPI for seamless chatbot integration and scalability.
• Created multilingual data pipelines to fine-tune embedding models, reducing embedder warm-up time to under 1 second on a single A100 GPU.
• Fine-tuned and pruned a distilled LLM, deploying it with 5 RPS sustained throughput on a single A100 GPU for B2B applications.
• Developed LLM-powered AI agents for e-commerce:
  • Automating SKU addition/omission in shopping baskets based on chat prompts.
  • Detecting client intent and recommending SKUs to increase purchase likelihood.
• Led a team to fine-tune a vision-language model for OCR of handwritten and printed invoices, enabling automatic SKU extraction and integration into chatbot workflows.
• Contributed to voice-to-text and text-to-voice model development by creating data monitoring systems and improving fine-tuning pipelines.

These experiences not only sharpened my engineering skills but also deepened my appreciation for the intersection of AI research, product development, and scalable deployment.

What’s Next 🌟

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Monash University as an AI Researcher in a Ph.D. Program.

This new chapter represents an incredible opportunity to dive deeper into neuro-symbolic, machine learning and how to combine them to make more reliable AI Agents

Thanks for reading! If you’d like to follow along with my research and projects, feel free to stay tuned here for more updates.