Utkarsh Malaiya

Utkarsh Malaiya

CS Engineering student at VIT Vellore, specialising in AI/ML; building autonomous systems, LLM pipelines, and things that learn.

Reach me at malaiya.utkarsh@gmail.com.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering — GPA 9.45
Relevant: OOP, Data Structures & Algorithms, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics
July 2024 – July 2028
The Emerald Heights International School, Indore
High School Diploma, CBSE — 10th: 95.2% · 12th: 96.2%
Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Informatics Practices
April 2023

Experience

NovaLinks Technologies — AI/ML Research Intern
  • Trained a domain-specific language model, handling data curation, model configuration, and the pre-training run.
  • Set up and managed the training pipeline using HuggingFace Transformers with custom hyperparameter schedules.
December 2025 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Team VAUV, VIT Vellore — CS & Autonomous Team Member
  • Designed and developed a ROS-based framework to control an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with 6 degrees of freedom.
  • Fine-tuned YOLOv11 for multi-gate detection in underwater settings; deployed on Jetson Orin Nano — mAP 0.97, accuracy 85%.
July 2025 — Present · Vellore, TN
xWell Technologies — AI/ML Backend Developer
  • Built a multi-tenant, scalable healthcare-AI platform generating personalised healthcare plans via in-context learning with LLMs.
  • Designed backend architecture integrating LangChain, Pinecone, and Azure Blob Storage with async task scheduling.
  • Developed prompt-engineered RAG pipelines with parallel async execution, improving response latency across client tenants.
  • Implemented task orchestration, error handling, and logging for production-grade distributed AI services.
July 2023 – Oct 2023 · Remote
DataFlair Web Services — Technical Content Developer (Python & AI)
  • Developed and deployed 20+ Python GUI projects using Tkinter for real-world demonstration tutorials.
  • Implemented and documented foundational AI/ML models using scikit-learn and NumPy.
  • Collaborated with SEO and review teams to produce high-quality, publication-ready content.
Jun 2021 – Oct 2021 · Remote

Skills

Languages
Python Python
C C
C++ C++
HTML HTML/CSS
JavaScript JavaScript
AI / ML
PyTorch PyTorch
HuggingFace HuggingFace
Scikit-learn Scikit-learn
NumPy NumPy
Pandas Pandas
LangChain LangChain
LangGraph LangGraph
YOLO YOLOv11
Backend & Infra
FastAPI FastAPI
Docker Docker
Git Git
Linux Linux
ROS ROS
Azure Azure
Pinecone Pinecone
Streamlit Streamlit
Hardware & Embedded
Arduino Arduino
ESP32 ESP32
Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi
NVIDIA Jetson NVIDIA Jetson

Projects

StoryGPT — AI-Powered Interactive Story Generator

June 2023
Streamlit OpenAI GPT API Stable Diffusion LangChain
  • Built an AI storytelling platform generating interactive, choice-based narratives and scene visuals using OpenAI GPT and Stable Diffusion.
  • Designed a context-aware generation pipeline with LangChain and Streamlit, enabling seamless text-image synchronisation and real-time story progression.

Writing

My Learnings from Building Deep Learning Models from Scratch

October 16, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

Building deep learning architectures from scratch isn't just a résumé line — it's a great way to truly understand what's happening under the hood.

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Using Reinforcement to Make Machines Human-Like

February 13, 2022

Autonomous vehicles, Watson cracking jokes — exploring how reinforcement learning brings machines closer to human-like behaviour.

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