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Hi, I'm Niket. I build things with Python and write about it.
I'm Niket Girdhar, a Python developer exploring AI systems, practical engineering, and community-led learning. This redesign keeps things light, clearer to navigate, and easier to spend time with.
15+
Projects
4
Publications
10+
Events & talks
Based in India
Building useful systems, writing things down, and sharing what I learn.
Builds
Recent projects
A more visual snapshot of the systems, tools, and interfaces I have been shipping.
Project
Automotive Health Monitoring System
Developed a multimodal predictive maintenance framework using telemetry and acoustic data to estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) and detect machine anomalies in automotive systems
PythonTensorFlowLibrosaPandasDeep LearningSignal Processing
Project
MicroML
A lightweight machine learning library in pure C99 with core models and utilities built from scratch
C99Machine LearningCMakeAlgorithms
Writing
Recent posts
Notes, explainers, and experiments shaped into something easier to revisit.
Post
The 99% Accuracy Trap - Why High Scores Often Signal Failure in Machine Learning
High accuracy can hide overfitting, leakage, imbalance, and shortcut learning. Real ML quality is measured by generalization, robustness, calibration, and business reliability.
Post
RedSage - Building a Cybersecurity Generalist LLM with Agentic Data Augmentation
Tiny Recursive Models prove that thinking longer through recursion can outperform thinking bigger through scale in AI reasoning.
Experience
Recent experiences
The collaborations, internships, and practical environments that shaped how I build.
Experience
McKinsey.org Step Forward Program 2025
McKinsey.org Forward is a free ten-week learning program designed to equip individuals at different stages of their careers from career starters to job changers—with practical skills to succeed in the future of work.
Experience
Amazon ML Summer School 2025
Amazon ML Summer School aims at providing students the opportunity to gain Machine Learning (ML) skills which is the first step in becoming ready to build a career in ML.
Learning
Recent certifications
Structured learning, hands-on practice, and the topics I have been sharpening lately.
Certification
Getting Started With Deep Learning
NVIDIA
Deep LearningNeural NetworksConvolutional Neural NetworksNatural Language ProcessingData Augmentation
Certification
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional Certification (Exam 1Z0-1127-25)
Oracle
LLMsGenerative AIPrompt EngineeringT Few Fine-TuningChatbotsRAGVector Database
Community
Recent events
Talks, workshops, and community moments that add texture beyond shipping code.
Research
Recent publications
Published work and documentation around problems worth understanding in more depth.
