Harshit Chopra
Principal Engineer - AI at Self-employed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolHarshit Chopra is a Principal Engineer - AI based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing machine learning systems across startups and enterprise environments. He combines a strong academic foundation from TU Munich and IIT Roorkee with hands-on expertise in MLOps, LLM fine-tuning, Kubeflow pipelines, and production evaluation platforms. At Skit.ai he led the MLOps team to turn prototypes into repeatable production workflows, and now advises and builds generative AI projects—ranging from Stable Diffusion virtual try-on to RAG-based student mentor bots. His background spans applied research (driver gaze estimation using GRUs and transformer evaluation at BMW) to anomaly detection and root-cause models for distributed systems at Instana. Known for prioritizing delivery requests and improving annotation traceability, he blends technical leadership with pragmatic engineering to shrink ML development lifecycles. Outside core roles he consults independently, demonstrating a knack for quickly translating cutting-edge research into deployable products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Science, Master's degree, Computational Science at Technical University MunichIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee10+2, 10+2 at Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalaya
English, Hindi, French, German
Github Skills (71)
densenet10
annotations9
datasets9
prediction9
artificial-neural-networks9
imageai9
image-recognition9
semantic-segmentation9
tensorflow-addons9
computer-vision8
multiclass-classification8
labeling8
python8
label-studio8
standardized8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
druther/programming-challenges
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
harshithere/Fluid-solver
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year
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