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Chapter 01 — The Cartographer

Rudra
Dudhat AI Engineer  —  IIT Bhilai  —  2nd Year DSAI

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Building AI systems that go beyond the notebook — live multi-agent pipelines, full-stack ML applications, and LLM infrastructure that actually ships to production.

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Field Dossier
About the Explorer

I am a second-year B.Tech student in Data Science & AI at IIT Bhilai (CGPA 9.48), but I think of myself less as a student and more as a builder. The classroom is where theory lives — the real learning happens when I am staring at a broken deployment at 2am.

My work lives at the intersection of LLM engineering, production ML, and systems architecture. I do not stop at the notebook. I containerize, deploy, monitor, and ship. Cascade AI is live on Firebase. OptiQuant runs on AWS EC2. The gap between prototype and production is where I am most at home.

A model that runs only on your laptop is not a product. It is a proof of concept wearing a costume.

When not building, I organise AI workshops for 200+ students at IIT Bhilai, run cold outreach for placement drives, and think about why model explainability tools can quietly create false confidence in a drifting system.

9.48CGPA / 10
2Live Deployments
200+Students Reached
2ndYear DSAI
IIT Bhilai — B.Tech DSAI
Jul 2024 – May 2028  |  JEE Advanced Rank 10,463
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Active Expeditions
The Work

"Every system tells a story. These are mine."

Other Dispatches — Live from GitHub
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Equipment Manifest
The Arsenal
Languages
PythonSQLJavaCJavaScript
ML & Data Science
PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnLightGBMCatBoostSHAPPandasNumPy
LLM & GenAI
LangChainOpenAI APIHugging FaceRAGOllamaPrompt Engineering
Infra & DevOps
AWS EC2FirebaseDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDGCSFirestore
Web & Interfaces
StreamlitFlaskGradio
Statistics
Time-SeriesBayesian InferenceHypothesis TestingPCARegularisation
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Captain's Log
Field Experience
2024–2028
B.Tech — Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai  —  CGPA 9.48  —  Deputy Class Representative
Jul 2025–Now
Core Member — DS&AI Club, IIT Bhilai
IIT Bhilai
  • Led a 12-person team organising AI, GenAI, and industry sessions reaching 200+ students
  • Managed speaker outreach, scheduling, and end-to-end logistics across 100+ attendee workshops
  • Mentored juniors on ML project ideation, model evaluation, and deployment workflows
Jul 2025–Now
Student Placement Volunteer — CCPS, IIT Bhilai
Centre for Career Planning and Services
  • Coordinated recruitment for 15+ companies across drives serving 100+ students
  • Cold-outreached 50+ companies; onboarded 2 new recruiters through persistent follow-up
  • Liaison between company HR and student candidates during assessments
Credentials & Certifications
Complete Data Science, ML, DL, NLP Bootcamp Verified
Krish Naik  —  Udemy  —  Aug 2025
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BCG Data Science Job Simulation Verified
Forage  —  Churn Prediction  —  Jun 2025
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JPMorgan Quantitative Research Virtual Program Verified
Forage  —  Loan Default Model  —  Jun 2025
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Field Dispatches
Written from the Trenches

"Thinking out loud so the next person doesn't have to start from zero."

LLM Engineering
Feb 2026
Why SHAP Can Quietly Lie to You in a Drifting System

Model explainability tools are supposed to build trust. But when your feature distribution shifts and the model hasn't been retrained, SHAP attributions can confidently mislead you into thinking everything is fine.

MLOps
Jan 2026
From Notebook to Firebase: What Actually Changes

Everyone talks about "deploying to production" like it's a single step. It isn't. Here's what building Cascade AI taught me about the real gap between a working notebook and a system that earns the word "production."

Quant / ML
Dec 2025
Walk-Forward Validation: Why Backtesting Usually Lies

Every quant strategy looks great on historical data. The dirty secret is that most backtests are optimised on the same data they're evaluated on. Walk-forward validation is the closest thing to an honest test — here's how I implemented it in OptiQuant.

Field Dispatches — R. Dudhat
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Get in Touch

Open to Expeditions

Actively seeking AI engineering internships — LLM product teams, ML infrastructure, or applied ML at early-stage startups. If you are building something that matters, let us talk.