Ishan Kothari

Experience

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  UST

  May 2021 - Jul 2021

  Machine Learning Intern

  • Engineered a sophisticated image captioning system using a blend of CNNs and RNNs with LSTM units• Used the ResNet50 model for extracting image features and created a language model using LSTM for generatingcaptions• Implemented categorical cross entropy loss function and utilized the RMSprop optimizer for fine-tuning the model,increasing the accuracy of the existing model by 14.28%, and precision by 17%

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  Amazon

  Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

  Software Development Intern

  • Designed and implemented a data retrieval tool, capable of retrieving 200 million records per hour, using AWS Lambda, Kinesis Stream, AWS S3, AWS SNS & Apache Flink• Reduced data transfer time by 96%, enabling machine learning teams to perform faster risk evaluations• Set up an AWS OpenSearch Serverless cluster to ingest metadata of risk evaluation documents, using the SearchAfter API for data retrieval• Designed the backend REST APIs and used AWS API Gateway to support data retrieval queries Show less

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  TELUS International AI Data Solutions

  Jan 2024 - now

  • Software Development Engineer

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Software Development Intern

    Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  • Product Management Intern

    Jan 2024 - Jun 2024