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Data Science | MLOps | Backend Systems

Sagandeep Kaur

IIT Madras data science student building data products, ML systems, and production-oriented applications with clean APIs, reliable pipelines, and measurable model behavior.

Profile

Data science foundation with production engineering habits

I work across data analysis, backend systems, ML workflows, and deployment pipelines. My projects combine modeling with practical engineering: APIs, validation, automation, observability, and interfaces that make model outputs usable.

9.04

IIT Madras CGPA

9.5

Project CGPA

7.5

IELTS

Experience

Applied engineering and teaching work

Recent roles across web development, NLP, student support, and event operations.

Web Development Intern

NPTEL, IIT Madras

Sep 2025 - Jun 2026

  • Developed and optimized SQL queries for large learner datasets, improving reporting efficiency.
  • Built Flask APIs that enabled structured data access for analytics workflows.
  • Automated data pipelines using PHP and SQL, reducing manual reporting effort.
  • Supported data workflows with validation checks to improve data quality.

NLP Intern

Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

  • Analyzed system data patterns and generated insights through visualization.
  • Implemented topic modeling and interpretability techniques for unstructured data.
  • Performed preprocessing to structure raw text data for downstream analysis.
  • Improved usability of model outputs through structured interpretation.

Teaching Assistant

IIT Madras

May 2024 - Sep 2024 | May 2025 - Sep 2025 | Jan 2026 - May 2026

  • Explained Python programming and software engineering concepts to students.
  • Guided students through assignments, problem solving, and debugging workflows.
  • Simplified complex topics for better learning outcomes.

Event Deputy Head

Research Summit 24 (Paradox), IIT Madras

2024

  • Coordinated event operations and managed cross-functional collaboration.

Technical Skills

Tools used across data, ML, and deployment

Programming and CS

PythonJavaSQLData StructuresOOPProblem Solving

Backend and Systems

FlaskFastAPIREST APIsAuthenticationAsync TasksDockerKubernetes (GKE)GitHub ActionsOpenTelemetry

Data and ML

Data CleaningEDAFeature EngineeringRegressionDecision TreesRandom ForestSVMSHAPFairlearn

MLOps and Cloud

DVCMLflowMLOpsLLMOpsMLSecOpsVertex AIGCS

Tools and Visualization

MatplotlibSeabornExcelGitJiraSQLite

Projects

Selected systems and applied ML work

A mix of application engineering, model development, data analysis, MLOps, LLMOps, and computer vision projects.

QC-Leap

AI-Powered Manufacturing Quality Control System

GitHub

Next.js, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, PyTorch, OpenCV, Docker

  • Built a full-stack quality-control dashboard for defect detection model management, training, inference, and reporting.
  • Implemented ML workflows with segmentation masks, Copy-Paste augmentation, class balancing, and MobileNetV3-Small classification.
  • Developed FastAPI services with JWT auth, PostgreSQL models, Redis/Celery jobs, and real-time training progress updates.

SiteSage AI

Construction procurement intelligence copilot

GitHub

Python, Streamlit, LangChain, Ollama, FAISS, SQLite, Scikit-learn, Plotly, Docker, Kubernetes

  • Built a multi-page procurement dashboard for document upload, cited AI question answering, delay prediction, vendor risk, and alerts.
  • Implemented local RAG with document chunking, HashingVectorizer embeddings, FAISS retrieval, SQLite persistence, and grounded-answer fallbacks.
  • Developed Random Forest delay-risk scoring, vendor reliability ranking, schedule-impact alerts, demo datasets, tests, Docker, and Kubernetes manifests.

Satellite Image Cloud Removal

Generative AI reconstruction for remote sensing imagery

GitHub

Python, PyTorch, ResUNet, GAN, OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Kaggle GPU

  • Built a cloud-removal pipeline mapping cloudy optical imagery and masks to reconstructed cloud-free satellite outputs.
  • Prepared RICE1/RICE2 manifests, trained a mask-guided ResUNet with cloud-aware L1 and SSIM loss, and exported visual predictions.
  • Reached about 22.74 dB PSNR and 0.796 SSIM on RICE2 testing, then explored GAN refinement and Bhoonidhi LISS-IV data automation.

Multilingual Speech Recognition

Routed ASR pipeline under compute constraints

GitHub

Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Whisper, Faster-Whisper, Indic Conformer, Librosa, Torchaudio, Kaggle

  • Built an English, Hindi, and Tamil transcription pipeline for a Kaggle speech recognition challenge.
  • Added language identification and dynamic model routing across Whisper large-v3-turbo and Indic Conformer models.
  • Implemented transcript normalization, WER evaluation, beam-search inference, FP16 GPU execution, caching, and Kaggle submission generation.

Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

LLM fine-tuning for Indian-language sentiment classification

GitHub

Python, Hugging Face Transformers, Gemma, LoRA, PEFT, bitsandbytes

  • Fine-tuned google/gemma-3-1b-it with LoRA/PEFT for binary sentiment classification across 13 Indian languages.
  • Built preprocessing, label encoding, tokenization, training, validation, diagnostics, and Kaggle submission workflows.
  • Used memory-efficient training with bitsandbytes and Hugging Face Trainer, reaching 0.9778 local validation Macro F1.

Low-Light Image Restoration

Denoising, illumination correction, and 4x super-resolution

GitHub

Python, PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, PIL, Matplotlib, Seaborn, U-Net, PixelShuffle, CUDA

  • Built a PyTorch restoration pipeline for the RELLISUR/Kaggle dataset with denoising, illumination correction, and 4x super-resolution.
  • Designed a custom SR U-Net with encoder-decoder blocks, skip connections, PixelShuffle upscaling, and refinement layers.
  • Reduced private RMSE from a 41.8 baseline to about 18.7 using EDA-driven modeling, loss tuning, mixed precision, TTA, and calibration.

End-to-End MLOps Pipeline

Cloud-native ML deployment and observability

GitHub

Python, Scikit-learn, MLflow, DVC, GCS, Feast, BigQuery, FastAPI, Docker, GKE, OpenTelemetry

  • Built an Iris classification pipeline with cloud artifact storage, data versioning, feature store setup, and experiment tracking.
  • Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions, pytest, CML reports, Dockerized FastAPI serving, Kubernetes deployment, HPA, and load testing.
  • Added model explainability, fairness checks, drift monitoring, guardrails, and LLMOps/MLSecOps experiments.

RAG Document QnA

Local retrieval-augmented document assistant

GitHub

Python, FAISS, Streamlit, Gemini, NLP chunking, semantic embeddings

  • Built a local RAG system that synthesizes grounded answers from proprietary documents with refusal behavior for unsupported queries.
  • Optimized CPU-bound vector similarity search with FAISS flat L2 indexing and overlapping text chunking.
  • Created a Streamlit dashboard for PDF ingestion, session-state memory, constrained Gemini prompting, and citation-aware responses.

System Threat Forecaster

System vulnerability classification

GitHub

Python, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib

  • Built a classification model to predict system vulnerabilities.
  • Implemented preprocessing, evaluation, and model performance analysis.

Household Services Platform

Role-based services marketplace

GitHub

Vue.js, JWT, Celery, Redis, Mailhog

  • Built a full-stack application with admin, customer, and professional roles.
  • Developed APIs, authentication, async task handling, and workflow automation.

Influencer Marketing App

Brand and influencer collaboration backend

GitHub

Flask, SQLite, Python

  • Designed database schema and REST APIs for campaign and user data handling.
  • Built backend flows to connect brands with influencers.

Business Data Analysis

Local dairy shop sales analysis

GitHub

Python, Pandas, Excel, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SQLite, Flask

  • Analyzed sales and customer data to identify trends and improve inventory decisions.
  • Created visualizations to communicate insights clearly.

Education

Academic background

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B.S. Data Science and Programming

2023 - 2027 | CGPA: 9.04 | Project CGPA: 9.5

CBSE Class 12

Senior secondary education

2022 | 80.2%

CBSE Class 10

Secondary education

2020 | 92%

Contact

Open to data science, backend, and ML engineering opportunities.

Reach out for internships, collaborations, or projects involving analytics, applied ML, backend systems, and deployment workflows.