Indranil Chandra
Architect ML & Data Engineer @ Upstox
Mumbai, India
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Creative Technologist | Data Leader | Tech Strategist | Solutions Architect | Data, ML & AI Practitioner | GDG MAD Mumbai Co-organiser
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Modern Data Stack - Architectural Design Patterns
The talk will open with examples of different data requirement of different organizations at different stages in their data journey and introduce the classic architectural choices that can be adopted to solve them. This will lead us to an in-depth discussion on one of the most popular architecture choice - ELT and how modern data tools and technologies fit into the ELT paradigm with target architectures proposed for example use cases viz, Regulatory reporting, customer-facing graphical data representation, real-time ML inferencing and internal data driven decision making process. The talk will be closed with a discussion on Modern Data Architecture pillars viz, Data Lakes, Analytics Engineering, Data Mobility, Data Governance, Data Observability, Performance and Cost-effectiveness.
Modern Data Stack - Architectural Design Patterns
The talk will open with examples of different data requirement of different organizations at different stages in their data journey and introduce the classic architectural choices that can be adopted to solve them. This will lead us to an in-depth discussion on one of the most popular architecture choice - ELT and how modern data tools and technologies fit into the ELT paradigm with target architectures proposed for example use cases viz, Regulatory reporting, customer-facing graphical data representation, real-time ML inferencing and internal data driven decision making process. The talk will be closed with a discussion on Modern Data Architecture pillars viz, Data Lakes, Analytics Engineering, Data Mobility, Data Governance, Data Observability, Performance and Cost-effectiveness.
DL-on-the-Edge
Accessible and affordable compute power, volume and variety of data, better algorithms and frameworks are the 3 major reasons why Deep Learning as a field has exploded and has become so popular in the last decade. This talk will be primarily focused on the first aspect - compute power and how modern DL based solutions can be deployed on edge devices with minimal compute power. Solutions like NUC (Next Unit of Computing) and NCS2 (Neural Compute Stick - 2) will be discussed and how they can be leveraged to build solutions like auto-navigating robots and assistive devices with accompanying demos. The talk will be concluded with a discussion on principles of community building, collaborating on building open source solutions and how the demos presented were built leveraging the open source community.
Data x Design Thinking = Customer Delight
This talk will be an intersection of Design x Product x Data and focus on the fundamentals of applying Design Thinking principles (empathise, define, ideate, prototype & test) to Data problems and build successful data products that bring customer delight and revenue.
This talk will be an interactive session with the audience where the speaker & audience would together solve few interesting problem statements from Stock Trading & Broking domain by applying the design thinking principles.
This talk will also highlight a simple to use Data Project Governance framework - https://github.com/indranildchandra/DataScience-Project-Governance-Framework/tree/master that can help in identifying successful data projects and prioritising them. This is very relevant in today's world since building data products is the easier part now given the advent of GPT-3, however building the RIGHT data product that truly delivers a value to the customer is a rarity.
AI x Data x Design Thinking = Customer Delight
This talk will be an intersection of Design x Product x Data x AI and focus on the fundamentals of applying Design Thinking principles (empathise, define, ideate, prototype & test) to Data problems and build successful data products using AI that bring customer delight and also generate revenue.
This talk will be an interactive session with the audience where the speaker & audience would together solve few interesting problem statements from Stock Trading & Broking domain by applying the design thinking principles to build a data product using AI. The novelty of this talk revolves around the real-world products that the speaker has built using the same framework at one of the largest stock brokers in India - Upstox.
This talk will also highlight a simple to use Data Project Governance framework - https://github.com/indranildchandra/DataScience-Project-Governance-Framework/tree/master that can help in identifying successful data projects and prioritising them. This is very relevant in today's world since building data products is the easier part now given the advent of GPTs, however building the RIGHT data product that truly delivers a value to the customer is a rarity.
LLM Evals: the new CI/CD for GenAI products
Shipping GenAI without evals is like deploying code without tests… exciting for the demo, terrifying in production.
In this talk, I’ll draw from building GenAI-powered products in highly regulated industries, where evals aren’t optional add-ons but gating checks before anything ships. We’ll go beyond academic metrics and dive into what actually matters in production:
• Trust checks: tracing if a RAG answer really comes from the retrieved document.
• Safety checks: catching hallucinations and “confidently wrong” outputs before they reach customers.
• Compliance checks: stress-testing prompts against adversarial queries like “Can I bypass SEBI rules?” or “How do I insider trade?”
• Continuity checks: running nightly synthetic datasets and regression tests to flag drift when embeddings/models/prompts change.
• Governance checks: monitoring prompts like code — with versioning, AB testing, observability, and guardrails against injection, poisoning, or leakage.
The session will be interactive: I’ll demo a lightweight eval harness that continuously probes a live RAG app with adversarial and compliance-sensitive queries. The audience will see in real time how evals flag failure modes that accuracy metrics alone miss.
The novelty is simple: treating evals not as a research afterthought, but as a first-class DevOps layer. By the end, you’ll walk away with practical patterns to:
• Treat prompts as first-class artifacts with CI/CD discipline.
• Embed guardrails and governance hooks alongside evals.
• Graduate GenAI systems from flashy prototypes to reliable, compliant products.
Please Explain, AI!
We’re comfortable when AI gives the right answer. But can we trust why it gave that answer? This talk dives into the crux of LLM adoption - "explainability".
I’ll walk through a practical explainability stack you can actually ship into production:
• Token attribution: IG, SHAP to see which words mattered.
• Attention viz. & prompt tracing: making hidden attention flows visible.
• Logit-lens & neuron probes: surfacing what layers really “know.”
• Counterfactual testing: nudging inputs to test model sensitivity.
• Chain-of-thought: when to trust it, and when it’s a dangerous mirage.
The novelty is simple: explainability as a design layer for real products, not a research toy. This will be an interactive session: we’ll probe a live model (one commercial LLM API vs a small open-source SLM) together and watch its reasoning “light up” across layers. By the end, you’ll leave with practical patterns to embed transparency into GenAI systems, so trust is architected in, not retrofitted later.
See ya SEO…Hello GEO!
Search is dead, long live generation. We’re entering a world where your brand isn’t discovered by Google’s crawlers but by GPT’s responses. With Google starting to roll out AI Overviews, and GPTs replacing keyword search, this shift is happening faster than SEO playbooks can adapt. This talk explores the transition from Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), and what that means for how we design content, retrieval, and schemas.
I’ll connect this shift to my earlier writing (From Google to GPT: The Branding Shift for an AI-native World - https://indranildchandra.medium.com/from-google-to-gpt-the-branding-shift-for-an-ai-native-world-454bf26e8c0e), and show how content pipelines now need to be designed not just for ranking but for retrieval into RAG/LLM workflows. That means: writing with embeddings in mind, structuring knowledge for semantic chunking, and designing metadata that LLMs actually use.
We’ll do a live experiment: I’ll pit a traditional SEO-optimised page vs a GEO-optimised knowledge base and trace how differently they surface in GPT responses. The audience will see how small changes in content design can make or break visibility in generation-first platforms.
This isn’t a marketing talk; it’s a systems architect’s take on growth in the GenAI era, where engineering, retrieval, and branding collide. If SEO made or broke companies in Web2, GEO will decide who wins attention in Web3.
Can you "R-A-G" like a pro?
RAG is everyone’s favorite GenAI trick, but running it in production is where the scars show. In this talk, I’ll share my personal journey of scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation inside enterprises... where “good enough retrieval” often breaks under freshness requirements, attribution demands, and compliance audits.
We’ll unpack the messy but crucial details: choosing embeddings that don’t silently drop context, tracing answers back to their sources (provenance), tuning retrieval freshness vs. latency (TTR), and the tradeoffs between recall and precision. I’ll also showcase two techniques I’ve published about recently: dynamic semantic chunking (to avoid context dilution) and adaptive-k retrieval (a smarter way to balance recall vs precision without extra latency).
The session won’t be a slide monologue. Together with the audience, we’ll stress-test a live RAG system and watch how tweaks in chunking, embeddings, or retrieval settings alter both performance and trust. The big takeaway: RAG isn’t about bolting a vector DB to an LLM, it’s about engineering provenance-aware retrieval pipelines that survive the real world.
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