๐Ÿ‘‹ Hey, I'm

Vinu Kevin
Diesel

AI Engineer who builds LLM systems

I turn messy real-world documents into production AI systems that actually hold up โ€” and I'm pretty good at it. Currently AI Engineer @ NEDL Labs. Off the clock you'll find me chasing sunsets in a new city, in the gym, or 5,000 hours deep in Apex Legends. ๐ŸŽฎ

VKD Vinu Kevin Diesel
Open to AI / ML roles

01 โ€” About

Who I am

Vinu Kevin Diesel at the University of Arizona

I'm Vinu โ€” an AI Engineer with a Master's in Data Science from the University of Arizona. I build LLM-powered systems that survive contact with real, messy data: multi-stage pipelines, validation frameworks, RAG architectures, and the occasional SMT solver for when "the model said so" isn't good enough.

I'm equal parts builder and explorer. I've wandered from Singapore to Big Sur to the canyons of the Southwest, I take the gym as seriously as my commits, and yes โ€” I've sunk 5,000+ hours into Apex Legends. Yes, it's a contradiction โ€” I'll fly halfway across the world for a good sunrise, then refuse to leave my chair until the ranked climb is done. Turns out I'm genuinely good at both.

  • 3.88MS Data Science GPA
  • 98%Model accuracy @ HPE
  • 39+Data sources unified
  • 500+Adversarial cases run
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

02 โ€” Beyond the code

Life's not all pipelines & prompts

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Travel

Always plotting the next trip. Singapore, Thailand, Big Sur, Zion, Bryce โ€” new places keep me curious.

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The gym

Non-negotiable. The discipline I build under the barbell is the same one I bring to hard problems.

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Apex Legends

5,000+ hours in. Split-second decisions, game sense, and never tilting โ€” it's basically debugging under fire.

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AI, always

I tinker with models, agents, and side projects for fun โ€” not just from 9 to 5. It's the hobby that pays rent.

03 โ€” Experience

Where I've worked

AI Engineer

Jun 2025 โ€“ Present

NEDL Labs ยท USA

  • Architected a 4-stage pipeline turning dense healthcare-policy PDFs into executable SQL rules (LLM parsing, logic-tree flattening, rule assembly, DB ingestion) โ€” replacing slow, error-prone manual policy interpretation so rules are queryable the moment a document lands.
  • Built a 5-layer validation framework that cross-checks every LLM-extracted rule against the source text via fuzzy matching and forward/reverse coverage analysis, catching hallucinated or missing logic before it ships and shielding downstream billing & coverage decisions from silent errors.
  • Developed a policy-domain classifier with multi-tier scoring, circuit breakers, and confidence gates that auto-routes policies across 10+ medical specialties โ€” letting the pipeline scale to new domains with zero manual triage.

AI Intern

Jan 2025 โ€“ May 2025

NEDL Labs ยท USA

  • Built a PDF-to-structured-data pipeline for casino gaming reports using Detectron2, EasyOCR, and table-recognition models in a 4-container Docker service โ€” turning slow, manual report data-entry into an automated extraction step.
  • Implemented automatic column matching with 384-dim embeddings in PostgreSQL (pgvector), unifying data from 39+ casino properties into one standardized schema โ€” eliminating hand-mapping and unlocking cross-property analytics.

Big Data & Deep Learning Intern

Dec 2022 โ€“ Jan 2023

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ยท Singapore

  • Built a custom posture dataset via web scraping and MoveNet keypoint extraction, converting joints into normalized vectors โ€” the labeled foundation that made reliable classification possible.
  • Trained a multi-layer CNN with dropout and hyperparameter tuning to 98% accuracy โ€” precise enough to flag unsafe postures in real time for workplace-ergonomics and safety monitoring.
  • Deployed on Azure Databricks with Spark batch-inference pipelines and live dashboards, turning raw model output into a real-time monitoring tool โ€” presented to faculty and industry professionals.

04 โ€” Projects

Things I've built

A mix of AI systems, security tooling, and one quant-trading rabbit hole. Everything's on my GitHub.

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FinePrint โ€” AI Contract & Policy Analyzer

Flags risky clauses in contracts & policies โ€” contradictions, hidden fees, auto-renewals, waived rights โ€” so people catch predatory terms before they sign. Pairs an LLM red-flag reviewer (a map-reduce pipeline that triples clause coverage over single-pass prompting) with a Z3 SMT solver that mathematically proves contradictions a manual read would miss. Deployed on GCP Cloud Run.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Gemini
  • Z3 SMT
  • GCP
  • Docker
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LLM Red-Teaming & Evaluation Platform

Modular AI-security framework that stress-tests LLMs across hallucination, instruction-following, reasoning consistency, and adversarial robustness via an automated weighted-rubric judge and 6 mutation-based attacks โ€” giving teams a repeatable way to catch unsafe model behavior before deployment. Benchmarking across providers surfaced a 21% hallucination gap on multi-step reasoning.

  • Python
  • asyncio
  • Claude API
  • Groq
  • Cerebras
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Multi-Agent RAG System

A 3-stage document-ingestion pipeline with specialized query routing and critic-based answer validation. A LangGraph state machine routes to factual, comparative, and multi-hop agents; a critic scores grounding and re-retrieves whenever confidence drops below 0.78 โ€” keeping answers citation-backed and cutting ungrounded, hallucinated responses.

  • LangGraph
  • Claude API
  • FastAPI
  • pgvector
  • Docker
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AI Cover-Letter Generator

A CLI that turns any job posting into a tailored cover-letter PDF in ~60 seconds โ€” compressing a task that usually takes 20โ€“30 minutes. Parses the JD with an LLM, scores rรฉsumรฉ fit via local sentence-transformer embeddings + an LLM judge, and tracks every application in SQLite so nothing slips through.

  • Python
  • Sentence-Transformers
  • LLM Judge
  • SQLite
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AI Quant Strategy Lab

A quantitative trading framework for gold (XAUUSD): Gaussian signal processing, HMM regime detection, and multi-strategy portfolio optimization, with automated MetaTrader 5 backtesting on real tick data โ€” so hundreds of strategy variants get evaluated hands-free instead of chart-by-chart. Live site included.

  • Python
  • MQL5
  • HMM
  • NumPy
  • MetaTrader 5
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Brain-Tumor Detection

An early computer-vision project that automatically isolates tumor regions from MRI scans using MATLAB morphological operations โ€” segmentation, thresholding, and region analysis exploring how to automate a task radiologists otherwise do by hand.

  • MATLAB
  • Image Processing
  • Segmentation
More repositories on GitHub

05 โ€” Skills

My toolkit

Languages

  • Python
  • C
  • C++
  • SQL
  • YAML
  • Bash

ML / AI

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • HuggingFace
  • SentenceTransformers
  • OpenAI SDK

LLM & NLP

  • Anthropic Claude API
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • Groq
  • LangGraph
  • RAG
  • Prompt Engineering

AI Security

  • LLM Red-Teaming
  • Adversarial Robustness
  • Prompt Injection Defense

Data & Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes (GKE)
  • Helm
  • FastAPI
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • MLOps
  • GCP

06 โ€” Education

Academic background

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M.S. in Data Science

University of Arizona, Tucson

GPA 3.88 ยท Aug 2023 โ€“ May 2025

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B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology, India

GPA 8.61 / 10 ยท Jun 2019 โ€“ Aug 2023

07 โ€” Contact

Let's build something

I'm open to AI / ML engineering roles and interesting collaborations. Fastest way to reach me is email โ€” I usually reply within a day.

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