Rajan Gurung

About Rajan Gurung

With a background in computing and a passion for solving real-world problems, I…

Experience

1. Data Scientist

   Ford Motor Company

   Feb 2023 — Present

   Summary:Led the development of a scalable, secure, and responsible LLM platform for enterprise-wide deployment at Ford. Designed and implemented AI/ML systems using AWS, PyTorch, and Hugging Face, with a focus on performance, observability, and ethical AI standards.*Key Achievements:• Built and deployed LLM training, inference, and similarity search services across distributed AWS UltraCluster environments.• Optimized multi-billion parameter models using quantization, pruning, and parallelization techniques to reduce inference latency by 35%.• Implemented vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, improving enterprise knowledge retrieval by 50%.• Established end-to-end MLOps pipelines with CI/CD, MLflow, and Airflow, accelerating model lifecycle management.• Integrated responsible AI practices including NeMo Guardrails, fairness audits, and GDPR-aligned data privacy protocols.*Skills Used:Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, AWS, Vector Databases, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, FastAPI, Ray, LangChain, NeMo Guardrails, Cross-functional collaboration, Generative AI, MLOps

Education

• Carolina University

  Master of Data Science

• Coventry University

  Bachelor of Science (hons) Computing, Computer Science