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Harin Rishabh

About

Harin Rishabh in sunglasses and a varsity jacket, leaning against a farm wagon piled high with pumpkins.
Touching grass, as recommended.
Role
Data Scientist
Based in
San Antonio, TX
Learning
How LLMs work inside
Focus
Conversational AI and evals

Now

I work on conversational AI: understanding what people actually mean, and building the evaluation frameworks that show whether a system really does.

Before

Forecasting models, AI tooling in New York and back-end systems in Bangalore, plus a master’s in Data Science I took mostly to find out what I didn’t know. It was a productive search.

Next

AI-native tools, RAG and better ways to evaluate LLMs. I’m also working toward a small GPT of my own, because using these models isn’t the same as understanding them.

Career

career.logStill training
  1. Epoch 4/4Jan 2025 – Present · San Antonio, TX

    USAA (via HCL America)

    Data Scientist

    Conversational AI for chatbots, focused on intent recognition and evaluation. Before that, ML engineering and forecasting for contact center operations, including a retraining framework that non-technical analysts could run themselves.

    in progress

    learned: intent is harder to predict than call volume

  2. Epoch 3/4Jun – Aug 2024 · New York, NY

    Apollo Global Management

    Summer Analyst, Innovation Technology

    Built AI tooling for unstructured data: NLP pipelines, an LLM-powered chatbot and the Kubernetes deployment underneath.

    complete

    learned: LLMs, at a very good time

  3. Epoch 2/4Jan 2021 – Jun 2023 · Bangalore, India

    Epicor

    Associate Software Developer

    Back-end Python for payments and ERP data, plus API automation and testing.

    complete

    learned: "it works on my machine" is not a defense

  4. Epoch 1/4Oct – Dec 2020 · Bangalore, India

    Fidelity Investments

    Data Scientist Intern

    Applied forecasting and statistical methods to anomaly detection, and presented a proof of concept to senior leadership. It started the habit.

    complete

    learned: real data is nothing like the textbook

Toolkit

LLMs & AI

  • LLM applications
  • RAG
  • Evaluation frameworks
  • Fine-tuning
  • Intent recognition
  • NLP

ML & data science

  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face
  • Time series forecasting
  • Model governance

Data

  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Pandas
  • Tableau
  • SAS

Engineering

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD

Education

University at Buffalo

M.S., Data Science

Aug 2023 – Jan 2025Buffalo, NY

BMS Institute of Technology and Management

B.E., Computer Science

Aug 2017 – Aug 2021Bangalore, India

Off the clock

Harin Rishabh smiling beside four horses leaning over a wooden fence at a red barn, one of them sticking out its tongue.
Stakeholder meeting. One of them had feedback.
  • Soccer
  • Travel
  • Chess
  • Puzzles
  • Consumer tech
  • Volunteering
  • Dogs
  • Cars

Also Reddit, which my resume lists as an interest with a straight face.