AI Systems Engineer · Fractional CTO

Darshan Tiwari

I build AI systems that have to survive contact with production: real-time voice agents, retrieval-grounded LLMs, diffusion pipelines, and the infrastructure underneath them.

Most of the work is deciding which parameter actually matters on a given build — latency, cost, accuracy, scale — and then showing it. Every case study names the models kept, the models cut, and the reason for each.

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Selected work

Systems, and what was inside them

Each case study names the models kept and cut, the papers behind them, the architecture, and what actually shipped.

All 13 case studies

Signed, on letterhead

5 work experience letters

Recommendation and experience certificates issued by the companies themselves — readable in full, page by page.

Open the letters page
  • 925 Worker LTD Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Programmer
  • Beastfluence GmbH AI Engineer — machine-learning architectures, NLP, LLM optimisation
  • Crysagroup Consultant — AI-driven analysis, strategic insight
  • Tanzania News Company LLC AI & Automation Consultant — PyTorch, CUDA, Transformers, computer vision
  • ZUVEXA AI Engineer — medical image analysis, computer vision

What clients said

  • Reliable A.I Engineer who priorities Trust and Efficiency, I really felt at ease while working with Darshan… keep it up, 100% recommended and we will work again…
  • We brought Darshan on board at short notice for a critical AI project, and he absolutely delivered. His expertise and problem solving skills make him a go to choice for anyone in need of a reliable AI engineer. We'll be working with him on all our future projects. Highly recommended.
    Graphicsify Graphicsify Agency partner
  • Really thorough and skilled with his Artificial Intelligence Engineering practices. Highly Recommend him!
  • I really liked how care was put around platform targeting/feasibility/accommodation of frameworks and various knowledge of libraries and transport layer experience!
    justind_oa Technical client
  • Great seller. Knowledgeable and pays attention to details.
  • Amazing Work down by Darshan yet again. I would totally recommend him.
    Rishiger Repeat client
  • Great vendor – highly professional in his work and very dedicated towards achieving a satisfying result.
    timodnr timodnr Professional client
  • Very detailed work
    Kushu Fiverr — RAG project
  • Fixed a persistent bug in my application in a jiffy, was pretty sweet and professional. Explained things clearly would definitely recommend! The guy knows what he's doing and he's pretty smart about it.

Capability

What I am hired to build

  • Voice & speech systems

    Real-time agents built on Whisper, Sarvam and Silero VAD — turn detection, tool calling and CRM context injected mid-call, held under a second end to end.

  • Retrieval-grounded LLMs

    RAG where the retrieval is the product: semantic chunking, MiniLM embeddings over Chroma, citation-constrained generation and an independent fact-check pass.

  • Diffusion & computer vision

    SegFormer segmentation into ControlNet spatial priors into InstructPix2Pix or SDXL, finished with Real-ESRGAN — staged, so the product survives the edit.

  • Agent orchestration

    Multi-agent systems with typed tool surfaces, staged execution and visible reasoning, including irreversible on-chain operations behind human gates.

  • Production infrastructure

    ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache and CloudFront under Terraform, deployed through GitHub Actions. Quantization and caching where the bill lives.

  • Data recovery & migration

    Forensic reconstruction of records lost to failed migrations, reconciled against payment processor and bank history until the ledger balances.

Have a system that has to work in production?

Architecture review, a build from scratch, or fixing the one that is already live. Fastest route is email — darshan@digitb.tech.