manikanta.
AI & Full Stack Engineer

Build the model. Then ship it.

I build LLM retrieval systems, ML models, and the APIs that serve them. Two are live: a RAG pipeline at 0.955 hit rate, and an ML recommender at 0.97+ R². Both measured, both deployed.

Manikanta Pudi
B.E. CSE (AI & ML) · 2025Open to roles
0.955
RAG retrieval hit rate
0.941
Answer faithfulness
0.97+
R², suitability model
6.7M+
Records analysed
01Selected work

Systems I built, and what they measure

Full stack · 2026Full stack

Anvil Hardware

A point of sale and stock system for a hardware store. Django and DRF over PostgreSQL, React on the counter. Built around one rule: stock can never be oversold, even when two cashiers bill the last unit at the same instant.

  • Django 5.1
  • DRF
  • PostgreSQL 17
  • React 19
  • Vite 8
  • JWT
  • pytest
7
Tables, PROTECT on FKs
3
Django apps
2
Roles, enforced server side
400ms
Search debounce at the counter
Production RAG · Jan 2026AI / ML

PolicyQA

A 3-stage retrieval pipeline over nine Indian labour-law documents. BM25 keyword search fused with vector semantics by Reciprocal Rank Fusion, then cross-encoder reranking down to five passages. Quality gates block deploys when metrics slip.

  • LangChain
  • Gemini
  • ChromaDB
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Cloud Run
  • Langfuse
0.955
Hit rate
0.964
Citation accuracy
22
Eval questions, LLM-as-judge
3
Retrieval stages
ML + Backend · Feb 2026AI / ML

EcoPackAI

Ranks 25 packaging materials across 13 product categories by suitability, cost and carbon impact. A composite eco-score makes the ranking readable; eleven REST endpoints and a normalised PostgreSQL schema make it usable.

  • Flask
  • XGBoost
  • scikit-learn
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Render
0.98+
R², CO₂ impact
2,275
Training samples
15
Engineered features
11
REST endpoints
Front end · In progressFront end

MediCare HMS

The patient-facing side of a hospital system: browse doctors, book appointments, register, and a protected dashboard. Refactored out of a duplicated HTML/Bootstrap site into a React component architecture with custom hooks for fetching and debounced search. Backend is next.

  • React 19
  • Vite 8
  • React Router 7
  • Bootstrap 5.3
  • Axios
  • Vercel
10
Routes, 5 protected
8
Breakpoints, no h-scroll
2
Custom hooks
500ms
Search debounce
02Experience

Where I've worked

Dec 2025 — Feb 2026
Remote, India

Data Science Intern

Infosys Springboard
  • Built an AI packaging recommendation engine across 25 materials and 13 categories, returning ranked suitability, cost and CO₂ predictions in real time.
  • Trained Random Forest and XGBoost on 2,275 samples with 15 engineered features, reaching 0.97+ R² suitability and 0.98+ R² CO₂ estimation.
  • Served the models through a Flask REST API with joblib model loading, deployed on Render with managed PostgreSQL.
Jan 2025 — Jun 2025
Hyderabad, India

Data Analyst Intern

Techmatrics Solution
  • Analysed 6.7M+ retail transactions and showed that 20% discounting cut net revenue despite higher volume, and delivered that as a pricing recommendation.
  • Wrote multi-table JOINs, CTEs and window functions against PostgreSQL, cutting query time and removing manual prep from recurring reports.
  • Built Tableau dashboards on revenue by category, customer segment and region, plus reusable Python cleaning and validation functions.
03Stack

What I work with

Languages & core

Python · SQL · JavaScript · Data Structures & Algorithms · OOP · REST API design · System design basics · Statistics & probability

AI & LLM

LangChain · Google Gemini · HuggingFace Transformers · ChromaDB · Langfuse · Hybrid search (BM25 + vector) · Cross-encoder reranking · Retrieval evaluation

ML & data

PyTorch · scikit-learn · XGBoost · Pandas · NumPy · Feature engineering · Tableau

Backend

Django · Django REST Framework · FastAPI · Flask · JWT auth · Pydantic · Uvicorn · Middleware & rate limiting · Transactions & row locking · Pytest

Front end

React · Vite · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Streamlit

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQLAlchemy ORM · Schema design · Query optimisation · ChromaDB

DevOps & cloud

Docker · Docker Compose · Git · GitHub Actions · CI/CD · Google Cloud Run · Render · Vercel · Linux

04 — About

I care about the number after the demo.

A retrieval system that answers well in a notebook and drifts in production isn't finished. So I build the evaluation harness first: a 22-question dataset, LLM-as-judge scoring for faithfulness and citation accuracy, and quality gates in CI that refuse the deploy when the metric degrades.

Six months of paid analyst work taught me the other half: the model is only as useful as the question it answers. Before that, a YOLOv8 terrain-identification paper and a traffic-sign detector at 92% accuracy. Now: Hyderabad, and open to AI and full stack engineering roles.

Research & certifications

  • Off-Road Terrain Identification using YOLOv8
    Journal of Electrical Systems — publication
    Dec 2023
  • NextLeap Data Analyst Fellowship
    Top Fellow recognition
    Jul 2025
  • SQL (Intermediate)
    HackerRank certification
    Mar 2025

Education

B.E. Computer Science — AI & Machine Learning
Chandigarh University, Mohali · CGPA 8.0/10 · 2021–2025

Final year project: real-time traffic sign detection with YOLOv8, 92% classification accuracy.

05 — Contact

Hiring for AI or full stack? Let's talk.