AI ENGINEER AND RESEARCHER

Building better models & products through research.

02 / EXPERTISE
THE PRACTICE

Research to
production.

01
Preference Optimization

DPO · ORPO · KTO · QLoRA · PEFT · Llama-3.2 fine-tuning · W&B experiment tracking

02
Evaluation & Judging

LLM-as-judge harnesses · Position-swap bias mitigation · Gemini-2.5-Flash judging · Custom efficiency metrics

03
Agentic Systems

LangGraph · Groq · Google Calendar OAuth · BERT intent classification · WhatsApp Cloud API

04
RAG & Retrieval

Pinecone · Weaviate (migrated) · Semantic memory design · Embedding-based intent matching

05
App Layer

FastAPI · Next.js · React · Supabase · Netlify Functions · structlog · Docker

06
Foundations & Hardware

CUDA · Transformer architecture · HuggingFace ecosystem · Arduino / electronics · Python · C++

03 / FLAGSHIP WORK
RESEARCH & PRODUCT

Work that has been used.

01
DISSERTATION

Alignment Efficiency Ratio

ROLE
Sole researcher
STATUS
Completed, Goa University
METRIC
AER = ΔWin Rate / GPU-hours
Alignment efficiency research
FIG.01 — DPO / ORPO / KTO ACROSS 1K-10K SCALES QLORA · LLAMA-3.2-1B

Comparing DPO, ORPO, and KTO under real compute and data constraints and not just win rate.

Nine primary models trained with QLoRA on Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct across 1k/5k/10k dataset scales, tracked in W&B. Judged with Gemini-2.5-Flash using position-swap bias mitigation. Introduces the Alignment Efficiency Ratio (AER) that is win-rate improvement per GPU-hour to make the compute trade-off between methods explicit rather than assumed.

QLoRA DPO / ORPO / KTO Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct W&B LLM-as-judge
02
PRODUCT

Atelier

ROLE
Sole engineer
URL
myatelier.in
STATUS
In active development
CATEGORY
AI scheduling assistant
Atelier product
FIG.02 — CALENDAR-AWARE SCHEDULING AGENT LANGGRAPH · GROQ · PINECONE

An AI scheduling assistant that reads intent and books time on your calendar for you.

A LangGraph agent classifies scheduling intent with a fine-tuned BERT model, resolves conflicts against Google Calendar via OAuth, and holds context across a conversation using Pinecone-backed semantic memory. Groq keeps responses fast enough to feel conversational.

LangGraph Groq Google Calendar OAuth Pinecone BERT WhatsApp Cloud API
03
PRODUCT

Jobify

ROLE
Sole engineer
STATUS
In active development
CATEGORY
Resume builder / ATS scoring
Jobify product
FIG.03 — RESUME BUILD & ATS SCORING NEXT.JS · GROQ · GEMINI

A resume builder that writes, structures, and scores your resume against real ATS criteria.

Jobify is an AI resume builder that scores your resume against ATS heuristics, suggests targeted improvements, and exports a polished version. It also searches jobs matched to your skills and experience. Built with Next.js, using Groq for fast resume parsing and Gemini for ATS scoring.

Next.js Groq Gemini Supabase Netlify Functions
04
RESEARCH TOOL

Konkani MT

ROLE
Sole engineer
STATUS
Completed
CATEGORY
Machine translation
Konkani to Sanskrit machine translation
FIG.04 — KONKANI → SANSKRIT TRANSLATION PYTORCH · TRANSFORMER · GRADIO

A transformer-based translation system built for a resource-poor language pair.

A from-scratch transformer trained to translate Konkani into Sanskrit, wrapped in a Gradio interface for interactive use. Feeds directly into the same low-resource-language research thread as the ICON 2024 sentiment analysis paper below.

PyTorch Transformer architecture Gradio Low-resource NLP
04 / PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED

Published
research.

Sentiment Analysis for Konkani using Zero-Shot Marathi Trained Neural Network Model

M. Ghosarwadkar, Seamus Fred Rodrigues, P. Bhagat, A. Abranches, P.D. Korkankar, J. Pawar

An experiment applying a sentiment model fine-tuned on Marathi to classify Konkani sentiment, demonstrating that zero-shot transfer across linguistically similar languages can power sentiment classification for resource-poor languages.

READ PAPER →
ICON 2024
PAGES 569-575
CHENNAI, INDIA

Comparing LLM Alignment Methods Under Constrained Conditions: A Study of DPO, ORPO, and KTO

Seamus Fred Rodrigues

Investigates preference optimization methods under low-resource constraints and introduces the Alignment Efficiency Ratio (AER) to evaluate preference gain per GPU-hour using Llama-3.2-1B and QLoRA. Found KTO the most stable and scalable method for low-data regimes.

VIEW DISSERTATION →
MASTER'S THESIS 2025
GOA UNIVERSITY
QLORA / AER
05 / TRAJECTORY
TIMELINE

The work,
most recent first.

2022 — NOW
Independent
AI CONSULTANT · AGENCY FOUNDER

Building Atelier (AI scheduling) and Jobify (resume builder). Running AI Agent & Automation Strategy consulting. Writing on LLM alignment and agent architecture.

2024 — 2025
M.Sc. AI, Goa University
DISSERTATION · PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Compared DPO, ORPO, and KTO under compute constraints, introducing the Alignment Efficiency Ratio. Co-authored a Konkani sentiment analysis paper, published at ICON 2024.

EARLIER
Foundations
FULL-STACK ML

Built a RAG-powered quiz app (Django + React), a Konkani-to-Sanskrit translation system (PyTorch + Gradio), and full-stack applications with FastAPI, Django, and React.

06 / CONTACT
LET'S BUILD

Building something
deliberate?

rod2sea11@gmail.com