Sidhant Manale

22 · ML Engineer · AI Developer

I build AI products around retrieval, agents, evals, and observability.

Currently looking for AI engineering roles where dependable systems matter.

Side Quests

Writing

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer

Apr 2025 – Dec 2025

•Shipped a production RAG system with BM25, dense retrieval, query expansion, reranking, and conversational memory, improving retrieval relevance by 40% and user engagement by 25%.
•Created an LLM prompt-optimization pipeline with chain-of-thought and few-shot examples, improving regulation and urban-planning document analysis accuracy by 35%.
•Cut response latency by 78% and memory footprint by 71% via connection pooling, leaner data structures & pipeline refactoring.
•Automated evaluation with an LLM-as-a-Judge framework using GPT-4.1, reducing manual annotation effort by 80%.

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Sep 2024 – Mar 2025

•Built FastAPI services to automate scraping of 10,000+ Indian court case files, improving legal data accessibility by 60%.
•Designed a LangGraph multi-agent system for contract analysis, identifying adversarial clauses with 85% precision.
•Delivered a production RAG pipeline with hybrid search for a legal Q&A chatbot, improving answer relevance by 40%.
•Implemented document preprocessing and chunking workflows for long-form legal text, improving retrieval consistency and reducing noisy context in downstream contract and case-law analysis.

Data Science Intern

Jan 2024 – Jun 2024

•Built an end-to-end time-series forecasting pipeline with XGBoost and feature engineering, achieving 98.8% accuracy on a 10,000+ row dataset.
•Developed hierarchical classification datasets across five business domains using custom ontologies.
•Created model evaluation dashboards and error-analysis reports to compare forecast performance across segments.

Gaming