Associate Product Engineer

Rushi Balapure

I like figuring out how things work, then building something with what I learn — right now that’s four different half-finished projects. Based in Pune.

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Tech I use

Languages: Python, Ruby, SQL
Frameworks: FastAPI, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain
Database: Postgres, MySQL, Pinecone, Milvus

01 · Experience

Work with consequence.

Full experience

ProMobi Technologies

Associate Product Engineer

2025–Now · Pune, India

Building Cloud DSPM, Secure Web Gateway, and Data Loss Prevention systems for enterprise customers at ProMobi Technologies.

Built a three-layer sensitive-data detection architecture combining rules, NER, and a self-hosted LLM, reaching approximately 90% detection accuracy.
Developed Google Drive, OneDrive, and S3 processing pipelines designed for at least 5 TB per customer, with current throughput of approximately 5 GB per hour.
Co-developed a Secure Web Gateway serving approximately 100 customers and 6,000 devices, contributing to a 75% reduction in reported website misclassifications.

Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Named Entity Recognition
vLLM
Google Drive and Onedrive
Data Loss Prevention

02 · Projects

Built to be used.

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in progress

AI-Based Vulnerability Detection System

Combines static source-code analysis with PCAP-based behavioral analysis. I contributed to the Python/Django analysis backend and the React/TypeScript interface for uploading inputs and reviewing results.

Python
Django
React
TypeScript

maintained

Arise

A Bash and Zsh utility that adds ten configurable animations to Python virtual-environment activation, with automatic environment detection and a non-interactive bypass.

Bash
Zsh

03 · Open source

Progress is collaborative.

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GitHub pulse

273 contributions

@Rushi-Balapure ↗

Public activity over the last year · refreshed Sep 25, 2026.

LessMore

PyPI

pdf-2-json-extractor

Converts PDFs into layout-aware JSON while preserving heading hierarchy, multi-column reading order, Unicode, and optional OCR. Its documented 50-page benchmark runs in approximately 5–10 seconds on a modern CPU.

Python
PyMuPDF
Layout Aware

04 · Research

Questions worth pursuing.

All publications

2025 International Conference on Information, Implementation, and Innovation in Technology (I2ITCON)

Multi-Party Crypto Vault System for Secure Digital Transactions

A study of multi-signature and Multi-Party Computation approaches for secure, collaborative, and fault-tolerant digital-asset custody.

Multi-Party Computation
Cryptography
Blockchain

2024 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Applications (ICCICA)

Real-time Detection of Students' Cellphone Usage During Lectures and Behavioral Analysis

A computer-vision system for detecting and tracking classroom cellphone usage with fine-tuned YOLOv8 models and analyzing distraction patterns over time.

Computer Vision
YOLOv8
Behavioral Analysis

05 · Community & speaking

Knowledge grows when shared.

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PICT Cyber Cell

Hands-on LLM Security Workshop

A hands-on PICT Cyber Cell workshop covering prompt injection, RAG attacks, excessive agency, Garak, Promptfoo, and defensive LLM system design, with public exercises and source code.

LLM Security
Gen-AI Red Teaming
Nvidia-Garak

Build Club x Hewlett Packard Enterprise

We've Got an AI for That: Existing AI Security Tools

A Build Club x HPE lightning talk on existing tools for deepfake detection, sensitive-data protection, threat prioritization, and incident response.

AI Security
Cybersecurity
Deepfake Detection
Threat Detection

06 · Education

A foundation for the work.

Education details

2021–2025 · CGPA 9.37/10.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

Pune Institute of Computer Technology