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Hi, I'm
Pankaj Kumar👋
Forward Deployed Engineer · AI Engineer · Full Stack LLM · Banking & Fintech
Dynamic Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Lead with proven expertise in developing innovative ML solutions and cloud-native applications. Demonstrated success in architecting and deploying scalable products leveraging machine learning, big data analytics, and cloud infrastructure. AWS Certified Solutions Architect with deep experience in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes development. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams and translating complex technical solutions into business value, combining technical acumen with strategic leadership to drive product innovation and deliver impactful solutions that address real-world challenges.
What I bring
Coding Skills & Expertise
Coding
Python15 Years
SQL15 Years
HTML5 Years
Java7 Years
R9 Years
Shell/Bash15 Years
React3 Years
Vue3 Years
JavaScript4 Years
CSS2 Years
Node2 Years
C++2 Years
C#2 Years
VB2 Years
Cloud
AWS10 Years
GCP2 Years
Tencent Cloud1 Year
OCI1 Year
Ali Cloud1 Year
Machine Learning
NLP10 Years
Generative AI4 Years
AI Agents3 Years
PyTorch4 Years
TensorFlow3 Years
HuggingFace4 Years
Databases / Big Data
Big Data (Spark/Hadoop)11 Years
NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB)8 Years
MySQL10 Years
Postgres7 Years
Oracle4 Years
Redshift4 Years
DevOps / Pipelines
Kubernetes / EKS7 Years
CloudFormation3 Years
CodePipeline / CodeBuild3 Years
VPC / IAM3 Years
Step Functions5 Years
Airflow3 Years
Domain Expertise
Banking1 Year
Healthcare15 Years
Diagnostics2 Years
Genomics10 Years
Materials4 Years
IP7 Years
Where I've worked
Work Experience
Full Stack LLM Development Senior Manager
AccentureSingapore
- End-to-End designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack agentic AI applications, ensuring seamless integration between front-end and back-end components.
- Currently serving as Build Lead for Wholesale Banking and Group Compliance - Transaction Data Analysis, steering the strategic development of agentic AI frameworks to automate complex banking workflows.
Full Stack LLM Development Manager
AccentureSingapore
- End-to-End designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack applications, ensuring seamless integration between front-end and back-end components.
- Developed real time AI assistance (transcription and RAG based answers for customer questions) application for call centre agents. IaC using Terraform. Stack includes Amazon Connect, Contact Lens, ReactJs (frontend chatbot), FastAPI (backend), EKS, EventBridge, Lambda, OpenSearch (for vector store), Bedrock (for LLM calls).
- Successfully delivered multi-agentic AI based KYC SOW/AML solution for one of the top banks as Lead LLM/GenAI developer. Stack includes ReactJS, Python FastAPI, Celery, Redis. Deployed on Azure AKS, AWS, On Prem OCP. CI/CD using Jenkins.
- MVP Lead for Group Retail and Wholesale Banking, steering the strategic development of agentic AI frameworks to automate complex banking workflows.
Principal AI Researcher
PatSnap Pvt LtdSingapore
- Drive the development of cutting-edge AI solutions to enhance existing products or create new offerings.
- Build and validate prototypes using advanced AI techniques like RAG and AI agents, ensuring technical feasibility and customer alignment.
- Collaborate with Sales, GTM, and customers to identify pain points and gather feedback for continuous refinement.
- Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, translating research into scalable, impactful solutions while mentoring and guiding the AI team.
R&D Manager
PatSnap Pvt LtdSingapore
- Applying Generative AI and developing Large Language Models (LLMs) fine tuned for Patents.
- Leading Singapore R&D team of NLP, Computer Vision, and Bioinformatics using Neural Networks and other machine learning methods on patent data.
- R&D for Life Sciences (PatSnap Bio and Patsnap Synapse), Chemical (Patsnap Chemical), and Materials product (Materials by Patsnap).
- Participate in collaborative meetings and facilitate cross functional teamwork.
- Lead the team for successful launch of PatSnap Eureka - Materials Product (eureka.patsnap.com/material).
Lead Bioinformatics Scientist
PatSnap Pvt LtdSingapore
- Lead the team for successful launch of PatSnap Life Sciences product.
- Lead the team for innovations in Patsnap Chemical.
- Pivotal role in PatSnap and CAS (www.cas.org) partnership.
- Published 3 patents.
Head of Clinical Bioinformatics
Vela DiagnosticsSingapore
- Lead the team for genomics and diagnostics product development in highly regulated industry. Pipeline and database development.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) using Neural Networks for embedding, NER, and semantic analysis of clinical trials and medical literature texts.
- Provide assistance to sales team by training them. Participate in collaborative meetings and facilitate cross functional teamwork.
- Product design and software architecture.
Bioinformatics Scientist
Human Longevity IncSingapore
- Analysis of Next Generation Sequence data of human genomes. Agile development of pipelines for specific projects. Database development and quality assurance of NGS data.
- Develop and apply novel statistical, bioinformatics, and data mining algorithms to identify biological patterns. Carry out association analyses with sophisticated genotypic, metabolomic, and phenotypic information. Parse, compare, and review genome annotation resources.
- Work with software engineers to provide domain knowledge and generate data required.
Research Associate
Weill Cornell MedicineDoha, Qatar
- Next Generation Sequence data analysis involving DNA-Seq, RNA-Seq, pharmacogenomics and other genomics study with HIPAA compliance. Pharmacogenomics project of drug dosage considerations by evaluating mutations of therapeutic targets in Qatar population.
- To supervise junior and senior research specialists. As part of the bioinformatics core, provide genomics data analysis to other labs. Collaborate and occasionally provide training to other institutes in genomics data analysis.
Research Fellow and RNAi Screening Facility Manager
IMCB, A-STARSingapore
- To analyse large-scale RNAi screening data and other genomics data using bioinformatics. To develop tools for RNAi screen data management, analysis, and visualization.
- To manage and supervise RNAi screening facility at IMCB which included development and management of databases of RNAi reagents, image acquisition, and writing pipelines for robots.
- Developed commercial software “ScreenSifter” in this lab which was commercialized by Exploit Technology, A-STAR.
Things I've built
Projects
SaaS Products
Work done on POC/prototyping and R&D including AI/ML modelsWeb Applications
Old workAcademic background
Education
M.PharmBirla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS-Pilani)
Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Dec 2002 - Dec 2004
Credentials
Professional Certifications
AWS Machine Learning Specialty
Amazon Web Services
Validity: 28 March 2020 - 28 March 2023
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Validity: 5 July 2019 - 5 July 2022
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Validity: 24 June 2021 - 24 June 2024
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Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6.0
Oracle
Research output
Patents & Papers
Patents
3Database construction method and apparatus, and file retrieval method and apparatus.
Shiv Umashankar, Pankaj Kumar, and Markus Haense
WO2021052184A1Image database establishing method, searching method, electronic device, and storage medium.
Pankaj Kumar, Hai Thien Ngyen, and Markus Haense
WO2021008213A8Method and system for annotating scope of claims of gene sequence, method and system for searching gene sequence, and method and system for annotating information of gene sequence.
Pankaj Kumar, Jie Cai, Markus Haense, and Hussein Ali
WO2020078341A1Papers
18- 01
Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) Suppresses STAT1/Interferon Signaling Pathway and Inflammation in Senescent Preadipocytes.
Madani AY, Majeed Y, Abdesselem HB, Agha MV, Vakayil M, Sukhun NKA, Halabi NM, Pankaj Kumar, Hayat S, Elrayess MA, Rafii A, Suhre K, Mazloum NA.
Antioxidants (Basel). 2021 Feb 23;10(2):334
- 02
Comprehensive transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of human mesenchymal stem cells reveals source specific cellular markers.
Anja M. Billing, Hisham Ben hamidane, Shaima S. Dib, Richard J. Cotton, Aditya M. Bhagwat, Pankaj Kumar, Shaihina Hayat, Noha A. Yousri, Neha Goswami, Karsten Suhre, Arash Rafii, and Johannes Graumann
Scientific Reports Feb 9, 2016
- 03
A graph based method for depicting population characteristics using Genome Wide Data.
Gaurav Thareja, Ziad Kronfoll, Karsten Suhre, Pankaj Kumar
Journal of Computational Sciences Dec 23, 2015
- 04
Association of DNA methylation with age, gender, and smoking in an Arab population.
Shaza B Zaghlool, Mashael Al-Shafai, Wadha Al Muftah, Pankaj Kumar, Mario Falchi, Karsten Suhre
Clinical Epigenetics 12/2015; 7(1):6
- 05
Metabolic switch during adipogenesis: From branched chain amino acid catabolism to lipid synthesis.
Anna Halama, Marion Horsch, Gabriele Kastenmüller, Gabriele Möller, Pankaj Kumar, Cornelia Prehn, Helmut Laumen, Hans Hauner Martin Hrabĕ de Angelis, Johannes Beckers, Karsten Suhre, Jerzy Adamski
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 09/2015
- 06
Genome-wide screen reveals vcp requirement for coronavirus exit from endosomes.
Hui Hui Wong, Pankaj Kumar, Felicia Pei Ling Tay, Dimitri Moreau, Ding Xiang Liu, Frédéric Bard
Journal of Virology 08/2015
- 07
Non-Truncating LIFR Mutation: Causal for Prominent Congenital Pain Insensitivity Phenotype with Progressive Vertebral Destruction?
Mohammed Fawzi Elsaid, Nader Chalhoub, Hussein Kamel, Mohammad Ehlayel, Nahla Ibrahim, Abdelrahman Elsayed, Pankaj Kumar, Hanif Khalak, Valentin A. Ilyin, Karsten Suhre, Alice Abdel Aleem
Clinical Genetics 08/2015
- 08
MetaRNA-Seq: An interactive tool to browse and annotate metadata of RNA-Seq studies.
Pankaj Kumar, Anna Halama, Shahina Hayat, Anja Billing, Manish Gupta, Noha Yosri, Karsten Suhre
Biomed Research International 2015
- 09
Bipolar disorders in Arab world: a critical review.
Ziad Kronfol, Mostafa Zakaria Khalil, Pankaj Kumar, Karsten Suhre, Elie Karam, Melvin Mclnnis.
Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 2015
- 10
Evaluation of SNP calling using single and multiple-sample calling algorithms by validation against array base genotyping and Mendelian inheritance.
Pankaj Kumar, Mashael Al Shafai, Wadha Al-Muftah, Nader Chalhoub, Mahmoud F. Elsaid, Alice Abdel Aleem, Karsten Suhre.
BMC Research Notes 2014; 7:747
- 11
Screen Sifter: analysis and visualization of RNAi screening data.
Pankaj Kumar, Germaine Goh, Sarawut Wongphayak, Dimitri Moreau, Frederic Bard.
BMC Bioinformatics 2013; 14:290
- 12
EVI1 oncoprotein interacts with a large and complex network of proteins and integrates signals through protein phosphorylation.
Emily A. Bard-Chapeau, Jayantha Gunaratne, Pankaj Kumar, Belinda Q. Chua, Julius Muller, Frederic A. Bard, Walter Blackstock, Neal G. Copeland, Nancy A. Jenkins.
PNAS 2013;110:31
- 13
RNAi screening reveals a large signaling network controlling the Golgi apparatus in human cells.
Joanne Chia, Germain Goh, Victor Racine, Sussane NG, Pankaj Kumar, Frederic Bard.
Molecular System Biology 2012; 8:629
- 14
Effect of training data size and noise level on support vector machines virtual screening of genotoxic compounds from large compound libraries.
Pankaj Kumar, Xiaohua Ma, Xianghui Liu, Jia Jia, Han Bucong, Ying Xue, Ze Rong Li, Sheng Yong Yang, Yu Quan Wei and Yu Zong Chen.
Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 2011;25(5):455-67
- 15
Genome-Wide RNAi Screens Identify Genes Required for Ricin and PE Intoxications.
Dimitri Moreau, Pankaj Kumar, Shyi Chyi Wang, Alexandre Chaumet, Shin Yi Chew, Hélène Chevalley, and Frederic Bard.
Developmental Cell (2011), doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2011.06.014
- 16
A genome-wide RNAi screen reveals determinants of human embryonic stem cell identity.
Na-Yu Chia, Yun-Shen Chan, Bo Feng, Xinyi Lu, Yuriy L. Orlov, Dimitri Moreau, Pankaj Kumar, Lin Yang, Jianming Jiang, Mei-Sheng Lau, Mikael Huss, Boon-Seng Soh, Petra Kraus, Pin Li, Thomas Lufkin, Bing Lim, Neil D. Clarke, Frederic Bard, Huck-Hui Ng.
Nature, Vol. 468, No. 7321. (17 October 2010), pp. 316-320
- 17
Update of TTD: Therapeutic Target Database.
F. Zhu, B.C. Han, Pankaj Kumar, X.H. Liu, X.H. Ma, X.N. Wei, L. Huang, Y.F. Guo, L.Y. Han, C.J. Zheng, Y.Z. Chen.
Nucleic Acids Res. 38(Database issue):D787-91(2010).
- 18
Update of KDBI: Kinetic Data of Bio-molecular Interaction Database.
Pankaj Kumar, Z.L. Ji, B.C. Han, Z. Shi, J. Jia, Y.P. Wang, Y.T. Zhang, L. Liang, and Y. Z. Chen.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 37: D636-D641.