resume
Basics
Name | Ajay Bhargava, Ph.D. |
Label | Scientist and Technical Leader |
bhargava.ajay@gmail.com | |
Phone | +1-908-636-4149 |
Summary | I am a strong communicator and customer empathist who loves solving business problems and identifying insights with data. I use the scientific method to drive business value. I have a strong background in biology, physics, statistics, and software engineering and have worked in multiple industries and domains. I am passionate about using AI to solve real-world problems and have a proven track record of delivering high-impact projects. |
Work
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2024.10 - 2025.06 Co-Founder & CTO
Bynd.Bio
Started a company to totally change how remote lab experiments are executed using REST APIs.
- Created smart AI tools to organize lab work, including pricing and protocols, into easy-to-use data models.
- Built a full app using Next.JS, Typescript, MongoDB, and OpenAI.
- Got customers, secured funding over $1M, and grew the team to 3 people.
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2022.10 - 2024.04 Senior Data Architect
TetraScience
Led enterprise technical solutions and AI agent platform development for large pharma clients.
- Led $1M+ TCV engagement with Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
- Built internal GenAI agent platform using AWS Bedrock and Terraform.
- Guided ElasticSearch integration for scientific data querying.
- Communicated across technical and executive stakeholders with live demos and whiteboards.
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2021.10 - 2022.10 Senior Data Scientist
Actuate AI
Designed real-time object detection systems at scale across security networks worldwide.
- Built slip-and-fall YOLO model deployed in SL Green properties.
- Developed OCR for Army Futures Command situational readiness.
- Quantized YOLO models with AWS Neuron SDK for 3x speedup.
- Built interpretability tools (LRP, CAM) for model debugging.
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2020.10 - 2021.10 Associate Scientist - Imaging Machine Learning
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Delivered ML and image analysis as part of Regeneron's core scientific computing facility.
- Analyzed lysosome localization, myofiber CSA using U-Net.
- Built ML tools for NASH/NAFLD patient stratification.
- Created image registration toolkit for histopathology and micro-CT.
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2020.03 - 2020.10 AI/ML Researcher
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Developed GAN pipeline for virtual staining of pathology slides.
- Built GAN + subpixel alignment model for in-silico H&E staining.
Education
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London, UK
Projects
- 2025.03 - 2025.03
Soundmoji
Built a mobile app that allows users to create and share music based on emojis.
- Won first place in a competitive hackathon.
- Built the entire full-stack in one afternoon using NextJS, Supabase, Fal AI, and OpenAI agents.
- 2024.04 - 2024.10
Fulcra Dynamics | Sleep Insights
Built a personalized multi-modal health analytics tool that studied six months of sleep and glucose data. Produced individual insight that resulted in one extra hour of sleep per night.
- Was featured on company blog and podcase.
- Built a multi-modal health analytics tool that studied six months of sleep and glucose data.
- 2024.10 - 2025.06
Bynd.Bio
Built a suite of AI agents to automatically parse, schematize and structure lab execution manifests and protocols, pricing matricies, and statements of work into a single structured data model that was used to better articulate CRO's value proposition during the sales cycle.
- Wrote the entire full-stack application in Next.JS, Typescript, MongoDB, and OpenAI.
- Landed Customers, landed term-sheets at >$1M valuation, and led the engineering and product team of 3 staff.
- 2023.07 - 2023.07
Hugging Face Hackathon
Built Streamlit RAG app for toxicology paper retrieval using Pinecone hybrid search.
- Used PyMuPDF, Pinecone, RAG architecture.
- 2023.01 - 2023.01
Template Repositories
Automated FastAPI deployment to AWS using Docker, ECR, and Serverless Framework.
- Used GitHub Actions, Lambda, API Gateway.
Skills
Backend & DevOps | |
FastAPI | |
CI/CD | |
Docker | |
Terraform | |
AWS | |
Serverless |
Data Science & ML | |
Pytorch | |
OCR | |
Image Analysis | |
MLOps | |
Generative AI |
Data Platforms | |
ElasticSearch | |
Qdrant | |
Pinecone | |
LlamaIndex |
Programming | |
Python | |
R | |
SQL |
Cloud | |
AWS Bedrock | |
Sagemaker | |
GCP | |
Cloudwatch |
AI | |
OpenAI | |
Fal AI | |
LlamaIndex | |
Pinecone | |
Qdrant | |
ElasticSearch |
Tools | |
VSCode | |
Cursor | |
Git | |
GitHub | |
Docker | |
Serverless Framework |
Full-Stack | |
NextJS | |
Typescript | |
React | |
TailwindCSS | |
Supabase | |
Convex | |
MongoDB | |
Redis |