Harsh Soni
Forward Deployed Engineer at Kyndryl · Bengaluru
Summary
I love working in technology. I build, ship and architect AI systems, with over five years in data and AI since my Master of Analytics at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
At Kyndryl I take on RFQs, proposals and client consulting, design the AI architecture and ship it. At UPL, as a data scientist for four years, I won a UPL OpenAg Award for my demand-forecasting work.
I also contribute to open source. This year I’ve shipped four AI systems in public, with a fifth in progress.
Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer (Lead II) · Kyndryl
2026 — NowMy account-opening automation for a regulated bank runs in production, and a GenAI triage layer for credit-card service requests is in UAT. I also work on Kyndryl’s internal multi-agent platform: orchestration, task planning and pluggable tools.
- Paper forms → clean records for a regulated bank. An end-to-end OCR pipeline on AWS Textract that tells form types apart, extracts the right fields for each, validates and encrypts sensitive data, then pushes clean records into downstream systems. Taken from a working PoC to the production process the bank now runs on.
- GenAI triage for credit-card service requests. A triage layer on AWS Bedrock that classifies each request against the bank's taxonomy, splits tickets that bundle several issues, and extracts structured details. Runs as an unattended daily job.
- Internal multi-agent platform. A shared platform that standardises how AI agents get built and deployed across client engagements; I contribute to it.
- Regulated-environment platforms & accelerators. Multilingual document pipelines (OCR, translation, structured extraction) on on-prem and cloud platforms for regulated environments, GPU inference with vLLM and quantization, packaged as reusable frameworks and accelerators. Technical delivery lead and mentor on the team.
Data Scientist, Digital & Analytics CoE · UPL
2022 — 2026I built demand forecasting for 23,000+ SKUs in 9 global regions; it raised forecast accuracy 30–35% and added USD 3M in sales. Then GenAI tools for regulatory dossiers and text-to-SQL. As technical lead, I mentored three data scientists and interns.
- Global SKU-level demand forecasting. Forecasting for 23,000+ SKUs across 9 global regions with 30+ models (AutoARIMA, SARIMAX, XGBoost, Prophet). Pipelines from SAP BW through Azure Data Factory and Delta Lake into Databricks, with MLflow tracking, CI/CD and automated retraining, plus an LLM layer that explains forecasts in plain language. Result: USD 3M incremental sales · USD 1.3M saved in inventory costs · +30–35% forecast accuracy.
- GenAI regulatory dossier automation. A Generative AI platform that automates regulatory dossier creation in crop protection. OCR, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, HuggingFace and FastAPI behind Azure SSO. Result: USD 23K saved in manual processing.
- LLM Text-to-SQL. Business users ask enterprise data questions in plain English. Semantic search finds the right tables, the LLM writes the SQL, and the answer comes back summarised.
- Customer churn model. A Random Forest model on SAP sales data that flags customer segments at risk of churning, and sized a potential 8–12% revenue uplift for retention.
Data Science Intern · Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
Jun — Aug 2021I built an NLP model with semantic search in R, 88% accurate, and a Shiny dashboard HR managers used to explore survey themes. I later extended it into my TISS dissertation.
Data Analytics Intern · HCL Foundation
Dec 2020 — Feb 2021I analysed COVID-19’s social, economic and psychological impact on beneficiaries of the Uday programme, and built the dashboard and recommendations from it.
Open source
- WarehouseOps AI (26 Jul 2026). Multi-agent warehouse assistant (LangGraph, 19 MCP tools) answering from live SQL with bring-your-own-CSV import; rebuilt a reference architecture to run free on a laptop, with 45 tests.
- Video Incident Intelligence (1 Aug 2026). Video Q&A pipeline where users write their own checks; local sampling plus a motion filter removes 96.5% then a further 66% of frames before any model call, and every answer cites its frame.
- FieldNote (9 Aug 2026). Voice-to-structured-record tool for Hindi and Hinglish field notes; measured reliable to −5 dB SNR and added a local noise gate after finding the model invents rather than errors below that.
- Listing Lens (22 Aug 2026). Photo-to-listing tool with per-field visible-in-photo flags; measured that blur, not darkness, breaks extraction and added a local sharpness gate before any API spend.
- Decision Gate (in progress). A 3B decision model kept 68% of 300 bank-support messages local at 96% accuracy; with escalation it matched cloud-only accuracy using a third of the cloud calls.
Awards, events & certifications
- UPL OpenAg Awards · Winner (2024 — 25). The “Win win win” award in the Living the Values Awards, for my AI demand-forecasting project, with a Certificate of Excellence signed by UPL’s Chairman & Group CEO.
- Databricks GenAI Innovation Award (2025). I was part of the UPL team that received it.
- Kyndryl at the ETCIO Annual Conclave 2026 (May 2026). I represented Kyndryl at the company’s booth, 21–24 May, Grand Hyatt Goa.
- Forward Deployed Engineer – Foundation, Kyndryl (Aug 2026). Also: TensorFlow Developer Specialization (DeepLearning.AI); RS & GIS Applications (ISRO – Indian Institute of Remote Sensing).
Education
Master of Analytics, Financial Econometrics · Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
2020 — 2022Dissertation: an NLP system for HR survey analytics, extended from my HPCL internship.