

Surbhi Gupta
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Scientist and Machine Learning Developer
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India
Toptal member since November 2, 2021
Surbhi, previously a CTO at a GenAI startup and assistant professor at MUJ, is a generative AI, ML, and NLP expert with 5+ years of experience. She has designed and developed ML-based end-to-end solutions for startups at Toptal and Fortune 500 clients at Utopia. Her expertise includes ML, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, LLMs, GPT, AI, MLOps, and AWS. Surbhi solved problems in EAM, marketing, finance, chatbot, and crypto industries. She published research in robotics and optimization.
Portfolio
Experience
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 5 years
- Robotics - 5 years
- Machine Learning - 5 years
- Python - 5 years
- Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) - 4 years
- Computer Vision - 4 years
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) - 4 years
- Deep Learning - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Hugging Face, OpenAI, PyTorch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
The most amazing...
...generative AI solution I've developed interacts with users to identify their brand's purpose and generates BVP and marketing content with text and images.
Work Experience
Full-stack & AI Developer
Freelance - Stealth Mode Startup
- Architected and delivered an end-to-end AI-powered multilingual education platform that transformed teacher-uploaded learning resources into structured lessons, bilingual content, interactive activities, and curriculum-aligned learning pathways.
- Designed and implemented agentic AI workflows, automating lesson planning, assessment creation, answer evaluation, personalized learning recommendations, and multimedia learning asset creation, including audio, video, flowcharts, images, and games.
- Developed prompt engineering frameworks that produced age-appropriate instructional content, assessments, and feedback with consistently structured outputs across diverse subjects and grade levels.
- Integrated multiple frontier language models, selecting models dynamically based on task complexity, quality requirements, and operational cost to improve overall system efficiency.
- Implemented cloud-native back-end services using Python and AWS to support scalable AI inference, document processing, user management, and content generation workflows.
- Engineered adaptive assessment capabilities that generated diagnostic, formative, and summative evaluations with varying cognitive difficulty levels, enabling personalized learning experiences based on student performance.
- Built an autonomous student-facing conversational agent that onboarded learners and guided daily study — recommending the next topic, explaining concepts on demand, and answering questions in context during a lesson.
- Gave the agent live context on the student's current screen, its capabilities, and the topic being taught, so it stayed in scope and constructively redirected off-topic requests back to the lesson.
- Enabled the agent to act in the product, not just reply — navigating students to the right screen and invoking tools mid-conversation to generate images, practice activities, and interactive quiz cards rendered inline in chat.
- Designed the agent's instructions and tool-selection logic, iterating on behavior by reviewing transcripts, and implemented real-time voice interaction over the Gemini Live API with TTS/STT.
Agentic AI Developer
Freelance | Stealth mode Startup
- Designed and developed an agentic AI application using Google ADK and Python to generate business intelligence questions by analyzing customer KPIs alongside external market factors, enabling structured exploration of performance drivers.
- Built an autonomous research agent capable of tool usage (code generation and web search) to answer complex business questions, iteratively refining queries to perform deeper KPI analysis and uncover actionable insights.
- Implemented an end-to-end AI workflow that transformed analytical findings into business-oriented reports, enabling stakeholders to move from raw data and questions to decision-ready insights.
AI Automation Consultant
HelloFresh
- Led cross-functional workshops with multiple teams to identify common and team-specific pain points, translating them into AI-driven productivity improvement opportunities.
- Defined and communicated AI use cases tailored to different business functions, enabling teams to adopt practical, role-specific productivity enhancements.
- Delivered enterprise training sessions on leveraging Gemini within GSuite (including Google Sheets), enabling employees to integrate AI tools into daily workflows and improve efficiency.
AI Developer
Front Porch Communications LLC
- Developed an innovative application to automatically curate and update newsletters. Leveraged LLMs to rewrite news and other informative articles with AI-generated images, ensuring that the content resonated with the interests of the target audience.
- Used AI to generate a daily special feature related to what's special on that date.
- Explored different LLMs like OpenAI, Claude, Amazon Titan, Mistral, and Llama for different AI operations.
- Used LLMs to classify news into several categories and to reject advertisements and other unwanted content.
- Orchestrated the development of a robust back-end infrastructure hosted on AWS, utilizing a diverse array of services, including Step Functions, EventBridge Scheduler, Bedrock, DynamoDB, Amplify, and Lambda functions.
- Implemented automated workflow processes using AWS Step Functions, enabling efficient content aggregation, transformation, and distribution. Ensured timely and fast delivery of the generated articles at a large scale.
- Integrated Google Programmable Search Engine API, News APIs, and Google Maps API into the application to augment its functionality and provide users with comprehensive and up-to-date information.
LLM Expert
Freelancing
- Developed an innovative application to automatically curate and update newsletters. Leveraged LLMs to rewrite news articles, ensuring that the content resonated with the unique characteristics and interests of the target audience.
- Used AI to generate dynamic weather reports for cities nationwide. Taking daily weather forecasts as input, the application wrote interesting weather reports tailored to each city's specific climate conditions.
- Orchestrated the development of a robust back-end infrastructure hosted on AWS, utilizing a diverse array of services including Step Functions, EventBridge Scheduler, Bedrock, DynamoDB, Amplify, and Lambda functions.
- Implemented automated workflow processes using AWS Step Functions, enabling efficient content aggregation, transformation, and distribution.
- Integrated Google Programmable Search Engine API, News APIs, and Google Maps API into the application to augment its functionality and provide users with comprehensive and up-to-date information.
Co-founder and CTO
Freelance Client
- Secured significant investment capital for a company in the SAFE round-through, effective investor engagement, and a clear explanation of the technology.
- Developed the first version of the product, meeting all key functionality requirements.
- Led a technical due diligence process, assessed by a renowned AI company and investors.
- Spearheaded the establishment of a talented team through effective interviewing and assessment methods.
- Utilized OpenAI models, effective prompt-engineering strategies, and few-shot learning to pioneer AI-led conversations with human users. Extracted valuable insights from these interactions and generated impactful marketing propositions.
- Designed a feedback mechanism to collect training data from field experts for fine-tuning the models.
GPT-3 Expert
Alec Beglarian
- Developed an MVP for email generation using OpenAI GPT-3 APIs.
- Developed the MVP on the AWS cloud platform, which is integrated with a database, storage, Lambda functions, Amazon SES, etc.
- Fine-tuned the OpenAI model for data correction to be used for email generation.
ML Developer
SimpliCapital LLC
- Deployed machine learning models with AWS cloud platform, using services like Lambda functions, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, etc.
- Improved machine learning model performance for the prediction of financial data.
- Created Amazon SageMaker training and inference pipelines for ML models.
AI Specialist | NLP Python Developer
Toptal Client
- Improved the NLP solution to identify business prospects in financial data.
- Used BERT-based POS tagging to extract important features from large documents.
- Made the solution interpretable by identifying words used to mark sentences relevant to business prospects.
- Used a Hugging Face transformer model for semantic similarity analysis.
AI Specialist | Python and ML Developer
Daylight
- Used OpenAI for solving Q&A and document query problems for a chatbot.
- Provided an open-source alternative to the OpenAI document query solution with better accuracy.
- Identified groups of chat clusters using agglomerative clustering based on semantic similarity.
AI Specialist | Python and ML Developer
Freelance
- Performed stance detection and topic modeling on social media data, using unsupervised and semi-supervised methods.
- Fine-tuned a pre-trained seq2seq transformer model for custom summarization tasks.
- Used NLP performance evaluation metrics like BERTscore and ROUGE score for NLP tasks and achieved a score of 0.89 BERTscore on the summarization task.
Senior Data Science Engineer
Utopia
- Developed an end-to-end machine learning solution for information extraction from scanned documents and diagrams that brought a good deal with a Fortune 100 company. Deployed the project to the client as a cloud application.
- Built a solution to identify equipment classes from descriptions and tags, which was used to deliver services to several clients.
- Created a solution that enables identifying valid values from product descriptions in material master data used to deliver services to various clients.
- Developed a solution to identify different shapes, tables, and text in diagram images. This required the application of several computer vision, image processing, deep learning, and machine learning techniques.
- Built a Dialogflow voice interface with a custom "Hey 4C" wake word, designing intents and entities that routed spoken queries into our ML backend for description cleansing and equipment characteristic identification.
Assistant Professor
Manipal University Jaipur
- Lectured subjects like robotics and mechatronics system design, including topics on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sensors.
- Conducted laboratory experiments to give students hands-on experience on MATLAB, control systems, and sensors.
- Conducted term papers and online quizzes and evaluated the performance of the students.
Senior Research Fellow
CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
- Optimized the design of a minimally invasive surgical robotic arm and formulated the kinematic control for trajectory tracking by its end-effector. Published two papers on this work.
- Improved the design of a passive bipedal robot and underactuated it in simulation to walk stably on steep slopes of zero to 30 degrees. Published two papers on this work.
- Taught subjects like industrial control and robotics to diploma-level students.
Experience
A Brief Review of Dynamics and Control of Underactuated Biped Robots
The article is available at the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01691864.2017.1308270
Split Compound Words
https://github.com/droid-surbhi/split-compound-wordsFake Vs. Real News Classification
https://www.kaggle.com/surbhig/classification-fake-vs-news-95-accuracyOptimization Using Meta-heuristics
https://github.com/droid-surbhi/OptimizationDesign Optimization of Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot
LighVe: Music Synced Lights
Kinematic Control of An Articulated Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotic Arm
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7853054Clustering Utilities
https://github.com/droid-surbhi/clusteringResume Classification
https://github.com/droid-surbhi/resume_classification• It uses latent Dirichlet allocation for topic modeling and counts vectorizer for vectorization.
• It also visualizes groups using Word Cloud.
Algorithm Design
https://github.com/droid-surbhi/algorithm_designMotion Planning
Visiting Card Creator
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-jjCYHUH5o-visiting-card-creatorCharacter Imitation by AI: Professor Dumbledore
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-LI8gD4kNS-professor-dumbledoreData Analysis with 1nb.ai
LLM Chains with GraphQL
Learning Assistant
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-RpP03sU17-learningcastleGet Detailed Answers for Any Query with Interactive Documents Powered By LLMs
AI-powered Nutrition & Wellness Platform
http://planmyplate.todayWORK DONE
• Built an AI-powered recipe ingestion pipeline supporting 4 input methods: manual text entry, community dish library, URL-based recipe import, and photo-based OCR.
• Engineered a hybrid nutrition database layer that combines USDA FoodData Central and IFCT (Indian Foods Composition Tables) with AI-based gap-filling to produce confidence-labeled, transparent nutritional estimates.
• Designed and implemented real-time nutrient analytics—macronutrient breakdowns, bioavailability insights (what the body can actually absorb and optimal food pairings), and dual-direction deficiency/toxicity alerts.
• Built a community-driven dish platform that allows users to share, reuse, and import dishes, building a crowdsourced database of Indian and global cuisine.
• Delivered a PWA with Google Sign-in.
• Built an interactive data visualization layer for day-level nutrient completeness, food group diversity, and color-spectrum coverage.
Education
Master's Degree in Mechatronics
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology - Kolkata, India
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Bundelkhand University - Jhansi, India
Certifications
Agentic AI
Deeplearning.AI
Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex
DeepLearning.AI
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Introduction to Containers
AWS
Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS
Sequence Models
DeepLearning.AI
Introduction to Tensorflow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI | via Coursera
Git Complete: The Definitive, Step-by-step Guide to Git
Udemy
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI | via Coursera
6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python
MITx
Control of Mobile Robots
Coursera
Machine Learning
Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Pandas, PyTorch, LSTM, OpenAI API, Claude API, Google API, Google Places API, API Development, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Keras, Matplotlib, AWS Amplify, Vue, X (formerly Twitter) API, NumPy, React, Beautiful Soup, Node.js
Tools
Git, ChatGPT, AI Prompts, Claude, Named-entity Recognition (NER), Claude Code, Amazon EKS, Amazon Textract, Visual Language Models (VLMs), MATLAB, You Only Look Once (YOLO), Amazon SageMaker, Confluence, OpenAI Gym, Jupyter, DeepSeek, Dialogflow
Languages
Python, SQL, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python 3
Frameworks
Streamlit, LlamaIndex, Flask, AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
Paradigms
Automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), HIPAA Compliance
Storage
Data Integration, Data Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cloud Deployment, Google Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB, Databases
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS IoT, Kubernetes
Other
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Image Processing, Neural Networks, Tesseract, Data Science, Research, Entity Extraction, Classification, Image Recognition, Data Analysis, OpenAI, Machine Vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-3 API, Chatbots, Fine-tuning, ChatGPT API, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), OpenAI GPT-4 API, PDF Scraping, Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo), Prompt Engineering, Gemini, Workflow Automation & System Integration, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), APIs, Feasibility Studies, Chatbot Conversation Design, AI Programming, RMSE, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Forecasting, Data Engineering, AI Automation, ChatGPT Prompts, AI Chatbots, Agentic AI, Datasets, Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS, Conversational AI, Conversational Design, Agentic RAG Systems, Model Evaluation, Prompt Optimization, Agentic AI Systems, Agentic Workflow Design, Solution Architecture, RAG Architecture, Software Architecture, Consulting, IT Consulting, Data-informed Recommendations, Evaluation, Performance Optimization, Software Engineering, Back-end, Document Processing, Data Extraction, Google Document AI, Anthropic, PDF, AI Agent Orchestration, Workflow Automation, Machine Learning (ML) APIs, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Architecture, University Teaching, Control Systems, Underactuation, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Object Detection, Transfer Learning, Text Detection, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Transformers, BERT, Sequence Models, Algorithms, Time Series Analysis, Time Series, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), GPU Computing, Team Leadership, Cloud, Code Review, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Open-source LLMs, Statistics, Multistage LLM Chains, AI Agents, Strategic Planning, API Integration, Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Bias Mitigation & Hallucination Reduction, Observability, Web Development, Data Curation, Bots, User Interface (UI), Function Calling, Tools, RAG Pipelines, Creative Writing, Memory Management, RAG Systems, Education Technology (Edtech), Text-to-Speech (TTS), AI Voice Agents, Text-to-text Transfer Transformer (T5), Leadership, FastAPI, Speech-to-Text (STT), HIPAA, AWS WAF, Recommendation Systems, Vector Databases, Mechatronics, Optimization, Metaheuristics, Robot Operating System (ROS), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Containers, Technical Writing, Publication, Simulations, Mathematics, Clustering, Web Scraping, Semantics, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Hugging Face, Unsupervised Learning, Topic Modeling, Data Visualization, DALL-E, User Feedback, Few-shot Learning, Motion Planning, Data Scraping, Recursion Testing, A/B Testing, Serverless, Full-stack, User Experience (UX), RSS Feeds, AI Suite, AI Consulting, google ADK, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Image Generation, Audio, Gemini Live API, Infographics, Videos, AI Model Training, Business Writing, Content Writing, Gemini API, Data Annotation, Real Estate
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