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At Certa.ai, Ronil built an internal LLM tool that classified more than 500 vendor files against the five SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, supported a production retrieval-augmented-generation prototype for vendor questionnaires, and benchmarked six provider APIs. Ronil has also conducted LLM research at Cornell and Dartmouth College and built internal AI tools at Merck, including LLM-training work and a SOC clause classifier for risk compliance. Ronil has led a four-engineer team and emphasizes lean software, early integration checks, and strict version control. Ronil works across Python, R, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, and modern AI and full-stack tooling, and won the Intuit ML Hackathon hosted at Intuit headquarters. ## Services - Retrieval-Augmented Generation \(RAG\) - FastAPI - Next.js - SQLite - Shell Scripting - Data Structures - Regression Models - Pandas \(Software\) - Risk Based Testing - PostgreSQL - WebSocket - Data Visualization - Google API - Data Leakage - Scikit-Learn - Claude Skills - Anthropic API - Data Analytics - Front-End Development - R \(Programming Language\) - JavaScript - Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) - A2A - Google Agent Development Kit \(ADK\) - Systems Engineering - Deterministic LLM Programming - TypeScript - React.js - Multi-agent Systems - Large Language Models \(LLM\) ## Highlights - Won the Intuit ML Hackathon hosted at Intuit headquarters. - Selected for CodePath’s advanced AI201: Applications of AI Engineering course, a highly competitive program with a selective admissions process. - Built an internal LLM document-classification tool at Certa.ai for more than 500 vendor files using the five SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. - Helped ship a retrieval-augmented-generation prototype to production at Certa.ai to prefill vendor questionnaires. - Benchmarked six provider APIs at Certa.ai for information-extraction quality, cost per query, and structured outputs. - Compared zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting strategies for LLM confidence-score calibration at Certa.ai. - Grades LLM math-reasoning and instruction-following outputs at Mercor, producing rubric-based scores and pairwise preference rankings for human-preference data. - Authors structured LLM critiques, corrected reference responses, and annotated training examples that identify hallucinations, logical gaps, and unmet constraints. - Designs multistep mathematics and statistics problems for LLM evaluation and logs reproducible failure cases. - Conducted LLM research at Cornell and Dartmouth College. - Built internal AI tools at Merck, including LLM-training work and a SOC clause classifier for risk compliance. - Led a team of four engineers. - Serves as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Rutgers University’s Department of Statistics. - Pursues a Bachelor of Science in Data Science & Statistics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, with a minor in Statistics. ## Experience - **Undergraduate Research Assistant at Rutgers University** (2026-09-01–present) — Dept. of Statistics - **AI Engineering Fellow at CodePath** (2026-09-01–present) — Selected for CodePath's advanced AI201: Applications of AI Engineering course, a highly competitive program with a selective admissions process - **LLM Trainer at Mercor** (2026-06-01–present) — Graded LLM outputs for a frontier AI lab on math reasoning and instruction following, scoring responses against rubrics and ranking pairwise comparisons into human preference data. • Authored structured critiques and reference responses flagging hallucinations, logical gaps, and unmet constraints, supplying corrected examples as annotated training data targeting response accuracy and stepwise reasoning. • Designed multistep math and statistics problems to expose failure modes, logging reproducible cases for LLM evaluation. - **Software Engineer at Certa.ai** (2025-06-01–2025-08-01) — Built an internal tool for LLM document classification of 500+ vendor files by the 5 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. • Helped the SWE team ship a retrieval augmented generation prototype to production to prefill vendor questionnaires. • Ran LLM benchmarking on 6 provider APIs for information extraction quality, cost per query, and structured outputs. • Compared zero shot, few shot and chain of thought prompt engineering strategies for model calibration of confidence scores. - **Operations Team Member at Delaware North** (2023-01-01–2024-01-01) ## Education - McNair Academic High School - Bachelor of Science, Data Science & Statistics — Rutgers University–New Brunswick ## FAQ ### What does Ronil do? Ronil is an AI Engineering Fellow at CodePath, an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Rutgers University’s Department of Statistics, and an LLM Trainer at Mercor. Ronil is also pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Data Science & Statistics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. ### What is Ronil’s education? Ronil is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Data Science & Statistics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, with a stated minor in Statistics. The LinkedIn education record lists an expected 2027 completion date. Ronil previously attended McNair Academic High School, with the LinkedIn record listing 2023. ### What does Ronil do at CodePath? Ronil was selected for CodePath’s advanced AI201: Applications of AI Engineering course, a highly competitive program with a selective admissions process. ### What research experience does Ronil have? As a Rutgers Department of Statistics Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ronil conducts research. Ronil’s background also includes LLM research at Cornell and Dartmouth College. ### What does Ronil do as an LLM Trainer at Mercor? At Mercor, Ronil grades LLM outputs for a frontier AI lab on math reasoning and instruction following. Ronil scores outputs against rubrics, ranks pairwise comparisons into human-preference data, writes structured critiques and reference responses identifying hallucinations, logical gaps, and unmet constraints, and provides corrected annotated examples. Ronil also designs multistep math and statistics problems to surface failure modes and logs reproducible cases for LLM evaluation. ### What did Ronil accomplish at Certa.ai? At Certa.ai, Ronil built an internal LLM document-classification tool for more than 500 vendor files, organized around the five SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. Ronil helped the software engineering team ship a retrieval-augmented-generation prototype to production for prefilling vendor questionnaires, benchmarked six provider APIs for information-extraction quality, query cost, and structured outputs, and compared zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting for confidence-score calibration. ### What work has Ronil done at Merck? Ronil built internal AI tools at Merck, including work training LLMs and developing a SOC clause classifier for risk compliance. ### What was Ronil’s role at Delaware North? Ronil has experience as an Operations Team Member at Delaware North. ### Has Ronil received any competition recognition? Ronil won the Intuit ML Hackathon, which was hosted at Intuit headquarters. ### What leadership and engineering practices does Ronil bring? Ronil has experience leading a team of four engineers. Ronil also emphasizes lean software design, catching integration issues early, and maintaining strict version control. ### What AI, machine-learning, and statistical skills does Ronil have? Ronil’s AI and machine-learning skills include large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, deterministic LLM programming, multi-agent systems, A2A, Google Agent Development Kit, Anthropic API, Claude Skills, machine learning, scikit-learn, probabilistic models, predictive modeling, regression models, statistical modeling, statistical data analysis, data leakage, coverage analysis, risk-based testing, backtesting, and data pipelines. ### What programming, data, and software-development skills does Ronil have? Ronil works with Python, R, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Shell scripting, FastAPI, Next.js, React.js, SQLite, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, Google API, data structures, systems engineering, front-end development, full-stack development, workflow applications, data visualization, Pandas, data analytics, data analysis, market research, investments, and securities. ### What certifications does Ronil hold? Ronil holds Anthropic certificates in Al Fluency Framework & Foundations, AI Capabilities and Limitations, Claude 101, Claude Code in Action, Introduction to Model Context Protocol, and Introduction to agent skills. Ronil also holds the FINRA Securities Industry Essentials \(SIE\) certification. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronil-basu