Navaneeth Krishnan

Navi Mumbai · Open to remote

Navaneeth Krishnan

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I build production-ready AI systems across agents, model workflows, computer vision, and full-stack products.

Resume

Experience

Where I've worked

BrainDrive LLC

Core AI Engineer

US-based · remote · Jul 2025 – May 2026

braindrive.ai
  • Built BrainDrive's full-stack hosted app for a user-owned AI system with billing, authentication, isolated VMs, and model-routing gateways.
  • Used containerization and LiteLLM APIs to support model access, usage workflows, platform reliability, and security.
  • Built ModelMatch, an evaluation harness for open-source models using LLM-as-judge scoring across finance, health, summarization, and therapy tasks.

Independent AI/ML Consultant

AI/ML Systems & B2B Consulting

Remote · US / UK / EU clients · Jan 2024 – Jun 2026

  • Delivered AI/ML systems for international clients across computer vision, generative AI, data workflows, and applied automation.
  • Owned discovery, architecture, evaluation, delivery, and client handoff for business-facing AI workflows.

Personal Branding Strategist

Audience Growth & Sales Funnels

Remote · India / UK · 2022 – 2024

  • Scaled multiple Instagram accounts and ran sales funnels for health practitioners.
  • Grew an Ayurvedic practitioner's Instagram audience from 2K to 30K+ followers and generated 7+ inbound leads per week.
  • Grew my Instagram personal-brand account from 0 to 10K followers in three months, reaching 10M+ impressions.
  • Built sales landing pages and lead-magnet funnels for clients across India and the UK.

Few projects

Few projects

OneCollector AI OCR System preview

AI system for iOS/Android

OneCollector AI OCR System

Real-time TCG card scanning for a collector platform with 50K+ users, tuned for motion blur, perspective, and tiny ID regions.

Computer vision demo · 90%+ accuracy

Padel Vision Analytics

Sports CV pipeline with 90%+ accuracy for player tracking, pose, ball movement, and stable overlays from match footage.

OpenHermessecurity fine-tuning

Security model fine-tuning

Security-Tuned OpenHermes + Llama

Fine-tuned OpenHermes and Llama for safer, vulnerability-aware responses within a broader AI infrastructure system.

Research

Publication

Micro-Expressions with Swin Transformer Tiny

Published work on micro-expression recognition using Swin-T on CASME II, comparing spatial and temporal heads, with gains from temporal cues and RAF-DB pretraining.

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Writing

Published Posts & Articles

Open source

Open Source Contributions

SGLang Project - SpecForge

EAGLE3 Training Correctness

Fixed loss-mask alignment during target preprocessing, restoring missing target supervision and removing stale boundary gradients. Added regression coverage for mask edge cases.

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Merged PR

BrainDrive - ModelMatch

Open-Source Model Evaluation Harness

Built and maintained an LLM-as-judge evaluation harness for comparing open-source models across finance, health, summarization, and therapy tasks.

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Education

Education

B.TECH in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, NMIMS, Navi Mumbai (22-26)