Kanak Dahake, MS
Summary: Experienced Engineer with a strong background in developing and deploying production-ready AI solutions. Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering multiple AI products, leveraging expertise in CyberSecurity, NLP, LLMs, and multimodal RAG pipelines. Passionate about building innovative applications that solve real-world problems and enhance user experiences.
Experience
Amdocs (Amaiz AI)
Software Development Specialist - GenAI
June 2024 - Present | Pune, IN
- Developed key features for the GenAI platform, including a command step that generates structured commands for a pydantic data models from the user (human-in-loop) for seamless integration with external API systems.
- Engineered a context entity management system, utilizing Python, REST APIs, asyncio, Jinja2, and NetworkX to enable dynamic data fetching, dependency resolution, and integration with prompt templates, enhancing the platform's ability to handle complex, data model driven context-aware interactions.
- Designed and built a robust, configurable end-to-end Multimodal RAG pipeline architecture, integrating Docling, vector databases, and large language models to enable advanced retrieval and generation capabilities.
- Develop AI agents that enhance customer interactions by providing personalized billing support and pitch product recommendations in the telco sector.
PwC U.S. Advisory
Senior Associate - Innovation Hub
June 2022 - June 2024 | Mumbai, IN
- Spearheaded multiple production GenAI Enterprise applications, including Chat Assisted search (retrieval-augmented generation), Chat Insights (Statistics backed Agent on Structured Data), Supervised Content Creation, and other SME Chatbots, leveraging Azure Infrastructure like Cognitive Search, CosmoDB, App insights, etc.
- Led the development of InsightsGen, a GenAI accelerator, enabling data analysis with contextually relevant insights and visualizations using NLP, enhancing decision-making. This resulted in multiple client engagement wins for the firm.
- Filed 2 patents for designed algorithms.
Associate - Innovation Hub
Dec 2020 - June 2022 | Mumbai, IN
- Developed a Graph-based anomaly detection system for Azure IAM roles, resulting in a 20% reduction in unauthorized access incidents.
- Spearheaded the development of a Federated Machine Learning POC on a blockchain network, demonstrating the feasibility of secure and decentralized machine learning models.
- Designed and executed an NLU (Natural Language Understanding) Pipeline, streamlining information extraction from Clinical Trial documents and reducing manual processing time by 30%.
- Developed a novel approach to validate public addresses of multiple blockchain networks using cryptography such as EDDSA and ECDSA.
Digitate (Ignio AI), TCS
Technical Lead Cybersecurity
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020 | Pune, IN
- Developed Just-in-time access systems for IAM solutions using Python and MongoDB, improving access control and reducing unauthorized access by 35%.
- Implemented cloud security controls & Secure DevOps processes with code, automation, and data, improving the efficiency of security operations by 20%.
- Oversaw security for the SAAS delivery model, providing expert advice on secure architecture, design, and implementation.
Product Developer - Cognitive Threat Manager
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020 | Pune, IN
- Trained and deployed Deep learning-based Phishing URL and DGA domain detection models, reducing successful phishing attacks by 25%.
- Developed ML services through a Python-based FLASK REST API system.
- Developed a Phishing campaigns detection system using Neo4J graph database and algorithms like label propagation and PageRank, leading to a 20% improvement in identifying malicious campaigns.
- Performed security data analysis, including UBA, providing static and dynamic alerting.
Projects
NewsGenius - GenAI based News Article Generation
A GenAI-driven app designed for news media publishers, streamlining content creation and assisting tasks like social media posting, summarization, and bullet point creation. Demo Video
Agents - SalesCompanionAgent & BillBot
SalesCompanionAgent: A chat app for sales assistants, empowering them with AI-powered features like sales plan generation, progress tracking, meeting scheduling, and email drafting. GitHub Link
BillBot: A bot that simplifies the management and extraction of information from bills and receipts, and provides user a simple q&a access to the data. GitHub Link
CryptoVulnerability - Responsible Vulnerability Reporting and Disclosure on Blockchain
Developed a privacy-focused vulnerability reporting system on blockchain using Hyperledger Fabric. Demo Video | GitHub Link