KUMAR VISHAL
AI Architect | Principal Engineer | Deep Learning Specialist
+91 77990 74798
kumarvishal.01@gmail.com
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Summary
Seasoned technology leader with 15+ years in software design and development,
specialising in Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Proven record of
delivering production-scale AI systems, securing patents and driving impact across
semiconductor, healthcare, retail and automotive sectors. Seeking to spearhead
architecture and innovation as an AI Architect / Principal Engineer.
Experience
Specialist, Algorithm R&D
Dec 2024 – Present
KLA
- Architected Network for DefectWise AI wafer-defect-classification tool.
- Built a robust MLOps pipeline for rapid, repeatable deployments.
AI Architect
Feb 2023 – Dec 2024
Barco
- Developed a predictive-maintenance platform for cinema projectors, analysing 900 GB of telemetry to forecast failures 5–7 days in advance.
- Created an AI ticket-triage system (LLama-3 prompts + BERT + LoRA-tuned Phi-3) that auto-tags issues and drafts resolutions with >96 % accuracy.
ML Tech Lead
May 2022 – Jan 2023
Entrupy
- Working on the solution for authenticating high value luxury items specially bags from the brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada etc.
- Revamped mask-segmentation pipeline; Avg. Dice from 0.44 to 0.81 while eliminating class bleeding and contour errors.
- Redesigned key-point head, reducing number of poor-fit samples (error > 5 px) from 90 to 30.
Staff Software Engineer
Aug 2019 – Aug 2021
GE Healthcare
- Worked on X-ray camera features to make the X-ray machines more smarter and efficeint to use..
- Patient-motion drift analytics—built an OpenVINO-optimised pipeline for the Definium X-ray platform that tracks movement in real time, averting ≈ 30 % of retakes (Product Demo).
- Automated collimator alignment—designed a Tradional Vision + DL model that predicts drift to ≤ 1° and drives closed-loop motor correction.
Technology Expert
Aug 2016 – July 2019
Cognizant Tech. Solution
- Delivered a two-stage Traffic-Light Recognition module—YOLOv2 for lamp-box detection plus an RGB-histogram CNN for state classification—achieving 0.94 F1 on the Bosch Small Traffic Lights dataset. (Traffic Light detection demo).
- Engineered a Road-Sign Recognition system for 40 sign types; clustered FC features to form 28 super-classes, then applied HOG + SVM sub-classification, boosting recall while maintaining real-time performance.
Lead Engineer
Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 | Aug 2009 – Aug 2012
Samsung Electronics
- Co-developed a high-resolution (10 K × 15 K) image-processing library—runtime matched Matrox Imaging Library.
Software Engineer
Mar 2008 – Aug 2009
Sasken Communication
Software Engineer
Aug 2006 – Jan 2008
Red Brook
Education
IIIT Hyderabad — M.S. by Research, Jan 2013 – Apr 2015 | CGPA 8.25
AKGEC Ghaziabad — B.Tech in Computer Science, Aug 2002 – Jun 2006 | 62.3 %
Languages
English (Fluent) | Hindi (Native)