Building AI at Protocase · Sydney, Canada

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AI Infrastructure Engineer

I build advanced AI systems and deploy them at scale — specializing in RAG, Agentic Workflows, and Ollama, with deep experience designing on-premise AI servers from scratch.

Hello

How are you?

I'm Bhavya Dave

AI engineer building intelligent systems from the ground up — RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, on-premise LLM infrastructure, and cloud-native deployments on AWS & GCP.

Journey & Experience

Work Experience

AI Software Developer (Research and Development)

Protocase

August 2025 – Present
Sydney, Canada
  • Architected a RAG system using on-premise LLMs (Ollama) enabling queries across 10,000+ technical documents.
  • Developed local agentic workflows (CrewAI, Ollama) and deployed MCP servers for autonomous data processing.
  • Designed AI legal pipelines via YOLO v8 and EasyOCR on GPU-accelerated Docker containers.
  • Engineered ML pipelines for behavioral feature prediction using Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM.

Software Developer Co-op (Research & Development)

Protocase

January 2025 – April 2025
Sydney, Canada
  • Established Kubernetes infrastructure from scratch to optimize Ollama LLM server response times.
  • Designed a predictive AI model to forecast Non-Conformance Reports (NCR), reducing quality control costs.

Data Science Intern

Rapidops Inc.

January 2023 – July 2023
Ahmedabad, India
  • Developed a computer vision-based attendance system, improving accuracy by 32% using deep learning.
  • Engineered a 256-class dataset using advanced augmentation, securing additional stakeholder funding.

Education

Master of Applied Computer Science

Dalhousie University

January 2024 – April 2025GPA: 4.15 / 4.3

Graduate Certificate in Cloud Data Analytics

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalaya

August 2019 – May 2023GPA: 9.2 / 10.0

Featured Projects

Industry

Built at Protocase during R&D roles

Agentic RAG System

Architected a private RAG system for 10k+ documents using on-premise LLMs (Ollama). Implemented keyword-based metadata scoring for ranked semantic retrieval, enabling natural language queries across internal technical documents.

PythonOllamaCrewAIVector DBMCPRAG

AI Legal Document Pipeline

Automated clause extraction and compliance verification via YOLO v8 and EasyOCR on GPU-accelerated Docker containers.

YOLO v8EasyOCRDockerComputer Vision

Kubernetes LLM Cluster

Established K8s infrastructure from scratch to optimize Ollama LLM server response times for internal AI manufacturing tools.

KubernetesDockerDevOpsOllama
Personal

Independent research & side projects

CO2 & Renewable Energy Prediction

Mar 2025 – Apr 2025

Hybrid time-series forecasting model using Prophet and Random Forest. Processed large-scale environmental datasets with Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE).

PythonProphetRandom Forest

Reserving for Restaurants

2024

A cloud-native restaurant reservation platform built on AWS services, featuring real-time table booking, email confirmations, and a scalable serverless backend.

AWSDynamoDBAPI GatewaySNS

Technical Stack

AI/ML Core

RAGAgentic WorkflowsLLMs (Ollama)PyTorchTensorFlowYOLO v8NLPDeep Learning

DevOps & Cloud

KubernetesDockerCI/CDAWSGCPMCP ServerMicroservices

Data & Languages

PythonSQLJavaC++PostgreSQLMongoDBPandasSpark

Publications

Gender Recognition and Age Detection Using Human Facial Features

Published in International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management (IJSREM)

1300+ DownloadsFebruary 2023
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