Baskar R
Applied AI Engineer
Salem, Tamil Nadu, India / baskargceo@gmail.com
Profile
Applied AI engineer focused on building applications with LLMs: retrieval-backed assistants, voice workflows, agent orchestration and document automation. Work spans model integration, backend APIs and the tools that connect generated responses to application workflows.
Experience
Freelance AI Engineer
- Present
- Built a teacher assistant for an IIT data-science initiative using Streamlit, OpenAI and LangChain, with topic-based retrieval.
- Worked on SEO automation for a Spain-based project using CrewAI for research, writing, SEO and WordPress publishing.
- Built applied AI workflows across voice sales, omnichannel retrieval and resume document generation; selected projects below.
AI/ML Intern / Adople AI
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- Worked on Text2SQL and HR resume-screening applications.
- Used CrewAI, LangChain, Azure, FAISS and Qdrant for LLM application and retrieval workflows.
Selected Projects
SareeBot AI / Voice sales
Real-time wholesale saree phone-sales pipeline using Azure OpenAI GPT-Realtime, FastAPI, FreeSWITCH, WebRTC, VAD, Whisper and SQLite. Integrated inventory, order and customer-verification tools, WhatsApp product sharing, Razorpay payment links and human escalation.
Omnichannel RAG / Retrieval
Website and WhatsApp chatbot. The documented public repository uses Qdrant, BGE, Llama 3.2, FastAPI and PostgreSQL, with dense/BM25 retrieval, reciprocal rank fusion, cross-encoder reranking, deduplication, source attribution and persistent sessions.
ResumeAI / Document automation
Resume pipeline combining GPT-4 Vision layout interpretation, pdfplumber extraction and structured JSON with Jinja2 HTML/CSS templates and Playwright/Chromium PDF rendering.
Technical Skills
LLM applications: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, LangChain, CrewAI, function calling, retrieval-augmented generation.
Engineering: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Django, Streamlit, Docker, AWS, Azure.
Data and retrieval: PostgreSQL, SQLite, Qdrant, ChromaDB, FAISS, hybrid search and reranking.
Voice and documents: FreeSWITCH, WebRTC, VAD, Whisper, GPT-4 Vision, pdfplumber, Jinja2, HTML/CSS, Playwright.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem / 2023-2026
Recognition
First prize in Python, Muthayammal College of Arts and Science.