Jay Rane

AI/ML Engineer

Building LLM systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI — from prototype to production.

Summary

AI/ML engineer with 8 years of hands-on programming experience (coding since age 14) and a track record of shipping real products — a multimodal AI assistant, a computer-vision attendance system, and a blockchain marketplace that secured a ₹10 Lakh incubation grant. Strongest in Python-based AI systems: LLMs, RAG with pgvector, Whisper speech-to-text, and OpenCV, backed by solid FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend engineering. Graduating September 2026; open to AI/ML engineering roles and early-stage startups.

Experience

Co-Founder & CTO · Carbon Bazaar

Mar 2025 – Mar 2026 · Goa, India

Led all technical decisions for a blockchain-based carbon credit marketplace, from architecture to MVP.
Built Solidity smart contracts to tokenize, trade, and verify carbon credits transparently.
Rapid MVP development contributed to winning a ₹10 Lakh FiiRE incubation grant.
Placed 2nd at GEC Startup Standoff 2025 pitching to a panel of investors and judges.

SolidityReactFastAPIPostgreSQLWeb3SupabaseTypeScript

Software Developer Intern · Onstro (formerly Teknorix)

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025 · Goa, India

Shipped production React Native features for YotCard, a live cross-platform product.
Delivered production-ready Android and iOS interfaces from a single codebase.
Worked in a professional product team with code review and release processes.

React NativeTypeScriptZustand

Selected Projects

JugaadGPT

April 2026

Multimodal Constraint-First AI Assistant

An AI assistant that generates practical solutions based on real-world constraints — budget, materials, location, and resource availability.

Multimodal input: voice, image, and text
Multilingual via Whisper speech-to-text
RAG pipeline with pgvector for contextual retrieval

PythonFastAPILLMsRAGpgvectorWhisper

Smart Attendance System

December 2024

Computer Vision + RFID

Dual-factor attendance using live facial recognition and RFID authentication for accurate, tamper-proof tracking.

2nd Place, InfoFest 2024 Hackathon
Real-time face detection with OpenCV
Dual-factor: RFID + face match

PythonOpenCVNumPyMachine LearningRFID

Carbon Bazaar

Mar 2025 – Mar 2026

Blockchain Carbon Credit Marketplace

A decentralized marketplace for trading carbon credits. Past role: Co-Founder & CTO (Mar 2025 – Mar 2026).

Past role: Co-Founder & CTO — led all technical decisions
Contributed to a ₹10 Lakh FiiRE Incubation Grant
2nd Place, GEC Startup Standoff 2025

SolidityReactFastAPIPostgreSQLWeb3Supabase

Education

B.E. Computer Engineering · Don Bosco College of Engineering

2022 – 2026 (graduating Sep 2026) · Fatorda, Goa

GPA: 7.5
Focus: AI/ML systems, data structures & algorithms, software engineering

Skills

AI / ML

LLMsRAGpgvectorWhisperOpenCVScikit-learnNumPyPandas

Languages

PythonSQLC++CTypeScriptJavaScript

Backend

FastAPIFlaskPostgreSQLSupabaseFirebaseNode.js

Infrastructure

DockerLinuxAWSVercelCloudflareGit

Blockchain

SolidityWeb3.js

Frontend

ReactReact NativeTailwind CSSZustand

Honors & Awards

2nd Place — InfoFest 2024 — Built RFID + Facial Recognition attendance system. Won 2nd at the national hackathon.
December 2024
2nd Place — GEC Startup Standoff 2025 — Pitched Carbon Bazaar, a blockchain-based carbon marketplace, to a panel of investors and judges.
GEC 2025
₹10 Lakh Grant — FiiRE Incubation — Contributed to Carbon Bazaar's successful FiiRE incubation grant application through rapid MVP development.
2025
Top 5 — Converge 2.0 — Selected as Top 5 Finalist out of 60+ participating teams in the national startup competition.
2025
2nd Place — GEC Pitch Tank 2026 — Presented BuyerGrade startup concept, winning 2nd place at the GEC pitch competition.
April 2026