Piyush Kulkarni
GEN-AI practitioner

From research to real-world impact—let’s build AI products that matter.

about me

Piyush Kulkarni

I'm an AI engineer from Pune, India. studying at IIIT Pune.
I build AI products.

AI products that matter.

git init my-projects

Where It All Started

E-commerce search is broken – filters are clunky, results are irrelevant.
Built a 10X better search engine – LLM-powered and agentic. Perplexity for shopping  
Semantic search - Uses Vector embedding along with LLM to provide Best Result  
Understands natural language – just type “T-shirt for a music concert,” and it finds exactly what you need.
Scrapes 12 top fashion sites – brings back the best results instantly.
No more endless scrolling – search smarter, shop faster.


TECHNOLOGY USED: OpenAI api, FastAPI, Vector Embedding,
Pinecone , selenium , Flask

Alexa+ but free open Source and before amazon
Goes beyond basic Q&A to take real actions.
End-to-End Task Execution – From shopping to booking hotels, flights, and buses.
AI-Driven Generative UI – Dynamically renders product cards based on content.
Advanced Web Automation – Uses Selenium to navigate websites and return structured data.
Precision with OpenAI Function Calling – Executes the exact function needed for each task.
Seamless Integrations – Handles everything from booking Airbnb, hotels, flights, and buses to shopping on Zepto & Carter, finding restaurants with AI, controlling Spotify, managing emails, and fetching the latest news.
Multilingual Support
– Works in any language.

TECHNOLOGY USED:
OpenAI api, FastAPI, Vector Embedding,
Pinecone , selenium , Flask ,Flutter, Dart

YC ATLAS
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Manual research to find YC startups is time-consuming – hours spent sifting through data.
Developed an open-source deep researcher – an agentic AI tool that autonomously conducts multi-step searches.
Agentic Flow & Context-Aware Retrieval: Utilizes LLM-powered semantic search to understand and refine your queries.
Example:
Search “Company that works in RAG”, and it finds every YC startup in that space of RAG, Finetuning LLM,AI Agents.
No More Stale Data: Provides a current snapshot of the startup ecosystem, cutting through static, outdated info.

TECHNOLOGY USED:
OpenAI api, Vector Embedding, Pinecone , selenium , Crawl4AI, Async , Streamlit

Conversational AI for Seamless Onboarding – Our NLP-powered AI agent on WhatsApp guides sellers through inventory creation, using recursive questioning to ensure accurate and structured product data.
WhatsApp: India’s Most Accessible Commerce Gateway – With 90%+ penetration, WhatsApp eliminates the need for new apps, making digital onboarding frictionless for every seller.
AI-Driven Data Structuring – The agent extracts, validates, and formats product details into a structured, machine-readable dataset, reducing errors and manual effort.
Vector Search for Intelligent Discovery – AI-generated descriptions are converted into high-dimensional embeddings, enabling semantic search beyond rigid keyword filtering

Agentic Workflow for CIS Benchmark Audit & Remediation – The AI agent splits PDFs into bite-sized sections to extract only the essential data.
Script Generation – Relevant sections are sent to an LLM that crafts tailored audit and remediation scripts aligned with CIS benchmarks.
Rigorous Quality Assurance – A secondary LLM meticulously reviews the scripts to identify any issues.
Instant Refinement – Detected issues are immediately sent back to the LLM for precise fixes.
Execution & Analysis – The finalized scripts are executed and their outputs are closely analyzed.
Continuous Optimization – Any anomalies trigger further LLM iterations until the scripts are flawless.

Problem Overview – Many organizations face challenges when non-technical staff must run command-line scripts without a GUI, and acquiring CIS hardened virtual images can be prohibitively expensive
CIS Benchmark Audit Automation – Our automation scripts conduct comprehensive security audits aligned with CIS Benchmarks, ensuring robust compliance and enhanced security.
Seamless GUI Execution – A PySide6-based GUI auto-detects the OS and runs the appropriate scripts.
Efficient Reporting & Search – Audit results are exported as PDFs, with a built-in search engine and structured database for quick script access.

Know My College – A Hackathon-winning webapp that simplifies finding the right college using just 10 straightforward questions. The app gathers your key preferences—such as job opportunities, campus life (rated on a scale of 1 to 100), and your preferred states—and returns a personalized, sorted list of colleges.
Personalized Recommendations – Leveraging a Pandas DataFrame , the app normalizes various parameters with linear regression and applies a weighted average algorithm to generate college recommendations tailored to your unique criteria.
College Insights – A RAG pipeline combined with a vector database powers a chatbot that delivers comprehensive, pre-acquired college information, including details on placements, campus facilities, and other key metrics to help you make an informed decision.

WORKEX

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Things I Learned & Applied through gigs

SAVII

May 24 - July 24
Python automation Intern
Philippines (Remote)

• Engineered comprehensive web UI and API testing frameworks using Robot Framework, Selenium WebDriver, Python, and RESTful APIs for a high-volume platform supporting extensive concurrent user traffic.
• Orchestrated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for seamless automation of UI and API tests, integrating diverse test suites to facilitate rapid feedback in agile development cycles.
• Designed and implemented scalable testing infrastructure leveraging cloud-based technologies, ensuring resilience and high-performance in continuous integration and delivery environments.

Awards

ACHIEVeMENTs

hackathon

WINNER - SIH 2024 FIRST RANK IN INDIA

Nov 2024
OLYMPIAD

linguistics olympiad - TOP 1% IN MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

Dec 2019
hackathon

Winner - BITS PILANI GOA FIRST RANK IN OPEN INNOVATION

Feb 2025
JEE

AMONG TOP 2% IN JEE ADVANCED

June 2023
HACKATHON

Winner - HACKIN QUEEN HACKTHON

JAN 2024
hackathon

WINNER - SIH 2024 FIRST RANK IN INDIA

Nov 2024
OLYMPIAD

linguistics olympiad - TOP 1% IN MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

Dec 2019
hackathon

Winner - BITS PILANI GOA FIRST RANK IN OPEN INNOVATION

Feb 2025
JEE

AMONG TOP 2% IN JEE ADVANCED

June 2023
HACKATHON

Winner - HACKIN QUEEN HACKTHON

JAN 2024
hackathon

WINNER - SIH 2024 FIRST RANK IN INDIA

Nov 2024
OLYMPIAD

linguistics olympiad - TOP 1% IN MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

Dec 2019
hackathon

Winner - BITS PILANI GOA FIRST RANK IN OPEN INNOVATION

Feb 2025
JEE

AMONG TOP 2% IN JEE ADVANCED

June 2023
HACKATHON

Winner - HACKIN QUEEN HACKTHON

JAN 2024
TEchStack

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Every Tech I’ve Touched

programing language

Python
C++
Java
Dart
Javascript
Powershell
C
SQL
Cypher
Bash

FRAMEWORK
LIBRERIES

FastApi
Flask
Langchain
Pandas
Numbpy
Selenium
BeutifulSoup
Robot Framework
QT Framework
Flutter
RAG

CLOUD / DB / DEVOPS

Vertex Ai
Firestore
OpenAI
Neo4j
gcp
AWS Lamda
SQLlite
MongoDB
Pinecone
Git
faiss
Jenkins
EDUCTION

git checkout -b COLLEGE

A Stressful but Necessary Branch

Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune

Engineering with Major in Computer Science and Electronics