Tirth PatelAI Engineer
Competency Matrix

Technical Skill Architecture

Categorized by practical application, systems engineering, and algorithmic mastery. Grounded in actual production code and project repositories—free from subjective fake percentage bars.

AI & Machine Learning

4 core competencies

Machine Learning & Scikit-Learn

Advanced

Classification algorithms (Random Forest, SVM), model evaluation, 5-fold cross-validation.

#Random Forest#Cross-Validation#Metrics#Pipelines

NLP & Vectorization

Advanced

TF-IDF text vectorization, cosine similarity, tokenization, semantic search matching.

#TF-IDF#Cosine Similarity#Text Mining

LLM & Agentic Workflows

Proficient

Multi-agent systems, Google Gemini API, IBM Granite (watsonx.ai), prompt engineering.

#Multi-Agent#Gemini API#watsonx.ai#Prompt Engineering

Feature Engineering & Data Preprocessing

Advanced

Handling missing data, standard scaling, categorical encoding, ratio feature derivation.

#StandardScaler#Imputation#Feature Extraction

Programming Languages

4 core competencies

Python 3.11+

Core

Advanced OOP, decorators, generators, concurrency, async I/O, algorithmic problem solving.

#100 Days of Code#AsyncIO#OOP#Data Structures

TypeScript

Core

Strong typing, interfaces, generics, Next.js App Router integrations.

#Type Safety#Generics#Modern Web

JavaScript (ES6+)

Core

Event loops, DOM manipulation, asynchronous programming, modern ES syntax.

#Promises#Async/Await#Modular JS

SQL

Proficient

Relational queries, joins, aggregations, indexing, schema design.

#PostgreSQL#SQLite#Relational Design

Backend & Systems

4 core competencies

FastAPI

Advanced

Pydantic validation, dependency injection, OpenAPI documentation, asynchronous endpoints.

#Pydantic#Async Endpoints#Microservices

Next.js & React

Advanced

App Router, Server Components, client state management, responsive UI systems.

#React 19#Server Components#Tailwind CSS

Celery & Redis

Proficient

Distributed background task execution, asynchronous queues, worker scheduling.

#Task Queues#Redis Caching#Workers

Flask & Node.js

Proficient

Lightweight microservice backends, REST APIs, middleware architectures.

#Express.js#Jinja2#RESTful

Data Science & Databases

4 core competencies

Pandas & NumPy

Advanced

Vectorized arrays, multi-index aggregation, dataset slicing, time-series handling.

#Vectorization#DataFrames#Aggregations

PostgreSQL & SQLAlchemy / Alembic

Proficient

Relational modeling, migrations, ORM queries, transactional consistency.

#Migrations#Alembic#ORM

MongoDB Atlas

Proficient

Document store schema modeling, aggregation pipelines, cloud clusters.

#NoSQL#Mongoose#Atlas M0

Matplotlib & Chart.js

Proficient

Scientific charts, confusion matrices, data distribution histograms, dashboard visuals.

#Data Viz#Confusion Matrix#Dashboards

Tools, DevOps & Testing

4 core competencies

Docker & Docker Compose

Proficient

Multi-container environment orchestration, reproducible builds, network isolation.

#Containerization#Microservices

Locust Load Testing

Proficient

High-concurrency user simulation, throughput benchmarking, bottleneck identification.

#Performance Testing#Benchmarking

Git & GitHub

Core

Branching strategies, pull request workflows, CI/CD actions, version management.

#Git Flow#Version Control#Collaboration

Linux & Bash / PowerShell

Proficient

CLI automation, server administration, shell scripting, environment configuration.

#CLI#Automation#Shell Scripting