Hi, welcome to my web page.
I am Ravi Theja, an AI Consultant at MistralAI, where I focused on building enterprise use-cases using Mistral’s powerful open-weight language models.
Before that, I was an AI Engineer & Developer Advocate at LlamaIndex, where I:
-Implemented of GraphRAG, CorrectiveRAG, AdaptiveRAG, Mixture Of Agents, RAFT papers using LlamaIndex.
-Released Building RAG Applications with LlamaIndex course on O'Reilly Media.
- Supported clients in building production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
- Engaged with developers via GitHub and events.
- Contributed impactful features to the open-source ecosystem.
🎯 I specialize in fine-tuning LLMs for practical, high-impact applications. Some highlights:
1. Navarasa – A multilingual Gemma finetuned LLM for 15 Indian languages, featured at the GoogleIO keynote and ranked among the top-6 Indic models by MSR-India.
2. BRAG – A series of cost-effective Small Language Models optimized for RAG and trained for under $25 each using Llama3.1 and Qwen2 Instruct. Outperformed Cohere’s Command R+ and Llama3.1 on NVIDIA’s ChatRAGBench.
🏢 Previously:
- Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Glance (InMobi Group) – focused on NLP and recommender systems to improve user engagement across TV and mobile platforms.
- Research Engineer at TCS Innovation Labs – co-authored a paper on humor detection accepted at COLING 2020.
🎓 Master’s in Data Science from IIIT-Bangalore, with deep focus on NLP, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning.
📬 I occasionally take on consulting projects that align with my interests. Feel free to reach out.
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