Pranjul RathourGenAI engineer in Kanpur who ships AI, then teaches it.
Pranjul Rathour is a GenAI engineer from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, who ships production AI systems: RAG pipelines, fine-tuned LLMs, hybrid retrieval and multi-modal apps across vision, speech and OCR, architected end to end from ingestion to deployment. He leads engineering at SCULT INDIA, founded the TechVerse Enclave developer community, and speaks and judges at college hackathons.
What has he built?
Five production AI applications at NextUpgrad Web Solutions between February and July 2026, each shipped end to end with Docker, CI/CD, structured logging and metrics.
RAG.NextUpgrad
Production RAG with hybrid dense + BM25 retrieval, re-ranking, streaming cited answers and a confidence gate that refuses weak-evidence answers. Runs in about 220 MB on a free tier.
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FineTune Studio
QLoRA fine-tuning from the browser with live training telemetry over WebSockets and base-vs-fine-tuned evaluation.
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DocuLens AI
Groq-powered invoice and contract extraction with schema validation and deterministic compliance scoring.
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FaceVision
Browser-only face detection, recognition and liveness with ONNX Runtime Web; the server stores embeddings, never images.
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OCR & Speech Workspace
Mistral-powered page-batched PDF OCR, live speech-to-text and document-scoped RAG chat with page citations.
View the code ↗At SCULT INDIA, since 2024, he leads engineering, architecture, UI/UX, deployment and client delivery for a 14-member cross-functional team, and designed SCULT Studio CRM, the internal platform for projects, clients and operations. Earlier products include Vaidya AI, Annapurna, Super Digital Library and client sites for Nuclear Pest Goa, Gloss Digital Entertainment and Passionate Records. The full list is on the portfolio.
What has he won?
Three first prizes and a top-three finish.
- 1stChangethon 2025 hackathon at the National Social Summit, IIT Roorkeewith KrishGyan, farming advice in the farmer's own voice and language over WhatsApp
- 1stProduct Genesis at Vividhotsava 2025, CSJMU Kanpurwith BrandHive
- 1stBYTEBATTLE hackathon by MeetKatswith Annapurna, a surplus-food coordination platform
- Top 3Hackathon at IIT Kanpur
Where has he spoken?
At VSICS Kanpur and under TechVerse Enclave, to first-years and to tech clubs, on GenAI, careers and AI-powered software development.
- 6 July 2025VSICS Induction Seminar
Mentor and speaker to 100+ first-year students on a three-year roadmap of foundations and AI tools, then hackathons and internships, then placements or a startup.
- 8 April 2025AI-powered software development
A mentorship session at VSICS Kanpur under TechVerse Enclave on how AI enters every stage of the software lifecycle, with a showcase of the Changethon-winning project.
- 29 March 2025INSIGHT, The Talk Show
A debate at the Computer Application Department, VSICS Kanpur, arguing the against side on nationalism and government policy.
He is open to guest lectures, workshops, hackathon judging and mentorship sessions at any college, on-site across India or remote. Organisers can start at pranjulrathour.scult.in/invite.
How does he write these pages?
Every page on this site starts from real search data and ends with cited sources.
The questions come from what people actually type into Google, Bing and YouTube and post on Stack Exchange, Hacker News and Dev.to, priced with Bing Webmaster Tools' measured impressions. The answers come from systems he built, documented in public repositories, and from primary sources: papers, official documentation and vendor pricing pages, linked at the end of each page. Facts about his own work come only from his verified profile. Pages are reviewed when the tools they describe change.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications, Dr. Virendra Swarup Institute of Computer Studies, Kanpur, 2023 to 2026, CGPA 8.6 / 10.
How to reach him
Email pranjulrathour41@gmail.com.
Want this as a live session at your college?
Open to GenAI roles, hackathon judging, mentorship sessions and guest talks at colleges.
