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Sayak Banerjee

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and search systems

PaylocityCarnegie Mellon UniversitySchaumburg, IL2 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and shipped production improvements to a Paylocity RAG-based AI assistant, redesigning retrieval into a hybrid HNSW + keyword pipeline and using tuned RRF to fuse rankings—cutting latency by ~2s and reducing token usage by ~5000. Previously spearheaded Apache Airflow integration across ETL pipelines at Acuity Knowledge Partners, creating reusable templates and automated triggers to reduce manual job monitoring.

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Key Strengths

  • Improved production RAG assistant by replacing sequential retrieval with hybrid HNSW + keyword pipeline
  • Reduced chatbot latency by ~2 seconds and token usage by ~5000 via retrieval changes and prompt tuning
  • Implemented tuned Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to fuse dense and keyword rankings for Top-N retrieval
  • Scaled orchestration by integrating Apache Airflow across existing ETL pipelines
  • Built template-based ETL integration enabling time-based and event-based triggers, reducing manual monitoring
  • Strong evaluation discipline for agents/RAG (unit tests, mocked tool outputs, end-to-end metrics, RAGAs)

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Experience

Machine Learning Engineer InternPaylocity · May 2025 – Aug 2025internship
Associate - Data Science and EngineeringAcuity Knowledge Partners · Jul 2022 – Jul 2024

Education

Carnegie Mellon Universitymaster, Computational Data Science (2025)
Vellore Institute of Technologybachelor, Electronics and Communication Engineering (2022)

Languages

English

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