Alok Tripathi
AI/ML Engineer · Agentic AI
I build AI/ML systems, agentic pipelines, and applied research projects. My work spans machine learning, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and full-stack applications, turning ideas into products that solve real problems.
Stack I use
Languages, frameworks, and infra across ML pipelines and full-stack apps
Python
PyTorch
FastAPI
React
Next.js
Claude API
Qdrant
Redis
PostgreSQL
Celery
Docker
GitEducation
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.S. in Data Science & Applications
Sep 2023 - Present
Chennai, India
Projects
Hackathon Winner · Claude API
SachCheck1st Runner Up
Real-time AI fact-checker built in 24h for the Anthropic × IIT Madras CBC Hackathon. Streams live verdicts as users type via SSE: Claude Haiku for fast triage, Claude Sonnet for deep analysis. Won 1st Runner Up.
PythonClaude
FastAPI
React
Competition ML · Music Genre
Messy Mashup ClassifierTop 2.5%
6-model ensemble (including an Audio Spectrogram Transformer) for multi-label music-genre classification. Hit 0.9614 Macro F1, reaching top 2.5% on the leaderboard. AST + SWA soups under tight compute constraints.
PyTorch
sklearnCompetitions & Model Lab
Kaggle competition results and paper-to-code implementations.
CompetitionResultScoreDate
NPPE2: Plant-Leaves Super-Resolution
RRDBNet from scratch, 11-model ensemble with SWA model soups
ResultRank 12 / 866
ScorePrivate score 16.569
Date2026
Messy Mashup: Music Genre Classification
6-model ensemble (AST + CNN) for multi-label genre prediction
ResultTop 2.5%
Score0.9614 Macro F1
Date2026
MODEL LAB · PAPER-TO-CODE
RRDBNet, built from the paper up
From-scratch PyTorch implementation of the ESRGAN RRDBNet generator, kept as a compact, readable proof that I can translate model papers into working, competition-grade code.
PyTorchSuper-ResolutionArchitecture
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Open Source Contributions
Merged pull requests to external repositories
Blog
The architecture behind SachCheck: claim decomposition, parallel evidence, and why we streamed everything
How we built a real-time AI fact-checker in 24 hours for the Anthropic × IIT Madras Hackathon: the decisions that worked, the ones that didn't, and the failure mode we didn't solve in time.
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I Thought I Understood Backend Development. I Didn't
Async traps, auth flow edge cases, race conditions: the backend concepts I thought I had down until real systems proved me wrong.
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CORS: The Browser Bouncers Explained
Why your frontend can't just talk to any server it wants, and how the browser's same-origin policy, preflight requests, and CORS headers actually work.
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