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Varad Kulkarni

Data Scientist/ML AI Engineer/Product Engineer

€125/day
Hamburg, DE
0-2 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Varad

A curious, product-minded engineer who enjoys transforming imaginative ideas into practical technical solutions that deliver real user value. With a foundation spanning software engineering, data science, machine learning, NLP, recommendation systems, and generative AI, and a strong learn–adapt–build mindset. Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and exploring open-ended problems while taking ownership of impactful technical solutions.
  • German

    Conversational

  • English

    Fluent

  • Hindi

    Fluent

  • Marathi

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • UnternehmerTUM GmbH
    AIEngineer
    September 2025 - November 2025 (2 months)
    Built an AI-driven WebXR/VR product for LSBG Hamburg to visualize future bus stop designs using BIM and LiDAR point-cloud
    data, supporting urban infrastructure planning decisions.
    Developed spatial data workflows for point-cloud processing, BIM interpretation, and interactive 3D visualization using WebXR
    and Three.js in virtual reality environment.
    Implemented a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions + Coolify) enabling automated testing and continuous deployment of the
    product prototype.
    Conducted user interviews, usability testing, and stakeholder interviews with city planning teams to identify engineering pain
    points and iteratively validate product direction.
    Communicated complex AI and spatial computing concepts to non-technical stakeholders, aligning technical feasibility with
    planning and design requirements.
    Technologies: WebXR, Three.js, FastAPI, LiDAR / Point Cloud Data, Blender, CloudCompare, GitHub Actions, Coolify, Git, Jira,
    Figma
    Prompt engineering FastAPI Typescript CI/CD Management
  • University of Hamburg,
    ResearchAssistant-NLP
    September 2024 - February 2025 (5 months)
    Contributed to research on open-source automated annotation
    of event concepts in literary texts, supporting the analysis of
    narrative structures across large text corpora.
    Analyzed genre-specific event patterns across multiple narrative
    datasets using statistical methods to uncover structural
    differences in storytelling.
    Developed an interactive visualization tool (React, Apache
    ECharts) to map character co-occurrence networks in novels,
    enabling exploratory analysis of narrative relationships.
    Trained a T5 transformer model for text pseudonymization and
    English-German translation, supporting experiments in
    automated text processing and privacy-preserving NLP
    workflows.
    Technologies: Python, NLP, T5 Transformers, React, Apache
    ECharts, Statistical Analysis
    Natural Language Processing (NLP) Model Optimization Data Visualization Statistical Analysis Data science
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions,
    ProgrammerAnalyst
    February 2022 - September 2023 (1 year and 7 months)
    India
    Developed and deployed a full-stack application using
    Java, React, Spring Framework, AWS, and SQL,
    contributing to the Cognizant Development Engineer
    (CDE) program.
    Collaborated on a team project to implement robust
    authentication and authorization features,
    strengthening application security and user
    management

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Education

  • B.Tech Information Technology
    Dr.BabasahebAmbedkarTechnologicalUniversity,India
    2022
  • M.Sc. Data Science
    TU Hamburg
    2025
    Grade: 2.3 Course Work : 1. Advance Machine Learning 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Big Data 4. Statistical Models 5. Probabilistic Machine Learning 6. Deep Learning for Social Analytics 7. Cyber Security for Data Science 8. Secure Software Engineering 9. Machine Learning for Physical Systems 10. Intelligent System in Medicine Thesis : Multi-Objective Music Recommendation System Objective: To redesign music recommendation systems by optimizing exposure for emerging artists while maintaining listener satisfaction. Methodology: Developed a multi‐objective optimization framework combining content‐based and collaborative filtering (matrix factorization) approaches, leveraging the Million Song Dataset for feature extraction and refined via Bayesian Optimization (Optuna). Results: Achieved 5× improvement in genre precision, 1.9× increase in emerging‐artist hit rate, and near‐perfect proportional exposure (EAEI=1.02), all while preserving recommendation quality and listener engagement.

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