Krishna Kaushik
Career Journey

Experience

From building $90M+ impact ML systems at Walmart to architecting AI-powered investment platforms at ForeStrat.ai.

full-time

Senior AI Engineer

ForeStrat.ai Remote Oct 2025 - Present

Building AI-powered institutional investment platform

  • Architecting DataStrat - scalable data infrastructure with web scraping pipelines for 100+ vendor datasets
  • Building TradeStrat - multi-broker trade operations platform with AI-driven reconciliation
  • Integrating LLMs for research automation, data transformation, and anomaly detection
  • Full-stack development with Python/FastAPI backend and modern frontend
Python FastAPI PostgreSQL LLMs Web Scraping RAG Docker
contract

AI/ML Engineer

Freelance Consultant Remote Jun 2025 - Present

Independent AI/ML consulting for startups

  • TableRAG Document Intelligence: Built hybrid RAG system for heterogeneous documents, 85% accuracy improvement
  • Product Catalog System: Led entity resolution pipeline canonicalizing 26K products, 70% duplicate reduction
RAG LangChain Vector DBs Python PostgreSQL
full-time $28M revenue $10M GMV

Data Scientist III

Walmart Global Tech Bengaluru, India Jun 2024 - Jun 2025

Led ML systems for pricing optimization and compliance

  • Pricing Optimization Framework: ML system generating $28M incremental revenue, improved accuracy from 10% to 60%
  • LLM Compliance System: Multi-model dietary classification pipeline, expanded coverage by 80%, $10M GMV impact
  • Intelligent QA Automation: Reduced manual QA cycles by 60%, improved banner production efficiency by 80%
Python PyTorch LLMs REST APIs GCP Docker
full-time $40M GMV 100K+/hr

Data Scientist II

Walmart Global Tech Bengaluru, India Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

Built full-stack ML pipelines for substitution systems

  • Full-Stack ML Pipeline: Architected substitution system with SLMs increasing GMV by $40M, 100K+ requests/hour
  • Inference Optimization: Applied LoRA fine-tuning achieving 70% performance improvement, deployed on GCP with K8s
  • Customer Choice Interface: Launched substitution interface boosting adoption rates by 90%, $10M additional GMV
Python PyTorch LoRA Kubernetes GCP Docker FastAPI
internship

Software Developer Intern

Publicis Sapient Gurugram, India May 2021 - Jul 2021

Full-stack development for inventory analytics

  • Delivered inventory analytics app using React, Node.js, and GraphQL
  • Increased data visibility and reduced restocking latency by 50%
React Node.js GraphQL MongoDB
Education

Academic Background

B.Tech in Electronics & Communications

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

Jul 2018 - May 2022

IIT

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Database Systems, Software Engineering

Achievement: Top 5% in Amazon ML Challenge with ensemble NLP models

JEE Advanced: AIR 1351 (Top 0.6%)