Pranay M. Mahendrakar

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AI Specialist Author Patent Holder

building LLMs, vision systems & AI products that actually ship

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Experience

Instructor & Author

Jan 2025 — Present

Tutorials Point · Edu-Tech

Creating comprehensive AI/ML courses and authoring technical content on LLMs, NLP and deep learning for a global audience.

Nodal Coordinator

Nov 2024 — Present

IIRS · ISRO

Coordinating ISRO's Indian Institute of Remote Sensing initiatives — facilitating space-tech and geospatial-AI research collaborations.

Managing Director

Mar 2020 — Present

SonyTech · Edu-Tech & AI

Leading an AI innovation company — driving growth and shipping AI-powered software, education and advisory across industries.

Technical Lead

Mar 2021 — Aug 2024

SonyTech

Led development of 20+ AI systems for Mercedes-Benz Germany, the Indian Army, and premier institutions including IIT Bombay and IISc.

Skills

AI & ML

  • LLMs & Fine-tuning
  • NLP & RAG Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • PyTorch · TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face · LangChain

Languages

  • Python · Java · C
  • JavaScript · PHP
  • Phoenix (Creator)
  • SQL · Bash
  • C++ (Compilers)

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS · GCP · Azure
  • Docker · Linux
  • Git & CI/CD
  • Ollama · Local LLMs
  • Edge AI Deployment

Engineering

  • Full-Stack Dev
  • MCP Servers
  • REST API Design
  • MLOps
  • Game Dev

Open Source

Free MCP plugins that give Claude & ChatGPT new abilities. They run no AI of their own — your model does the thinking, so they cost nothing to run.

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Paste any URL into Claude or ChatGPT — no signup, no key.

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Certifications across leading platforms

FAQ

Who is Pranay Mahendrakar?

Pranay M. Mahendrakar is an AI Specialist, author and innovator based in Bengaluru, India. He builds production LLM, NLP and computer-vision systems and has delivered 150+ AI systems for clients including Mercedes-Benz, the Indian Army, IIT Bombay and IISc.

What does Pranay Mahendrakar do?

He designs and builds AI products end to end — large language models, fine-tuning, RAG systems, computer vision and automation — and works as an AI author, educator and technical leader.

What has Pranay Mahendrakar built?

Notable work includes an offline AI salesperson for Mercedes-Benz, a drone threat-detection system for the Indian Army, AI research platforms for IIT Bombay and IISc, the Phoenix programming language, open-source Python libraries on PyPI, and a suite of free open-source MCP plugins for Claude and ChatGPT.

What MCP plugins has Pranay Mahendrakar built?

A suite of free, open-source MCP plugins for Claude and ChatGPT — including Citation Guard, which verifies references against live registries to catch AI-hallucinated citations, dead DOIs and retracted papers; Thinking Tools (five reasoning protocols); Pro Prompter; Plain English; Learn Anything; and MCP Toolkit. All MIT licensed and free to run. See them all.

How are the MCP plugins free to run?

The servers run no AI of their own. Each returns an expert protocol or verified facts as plain text, and your own Claude or ChatGPT does the reasoning — so there's no API key and no second bill. They're hosted on Cloudflare Workers' free tier.

What books has Pranay Mahendrakar written?

Three AI books: ‘Just AI With Pranay’, ‘Multiverse of AI’, and ‘It's Me LLM’.

What are Pranay Mahendrakar's credentials?

A UK-registered patent (#6380496), 15+ peer-reviewed research papers, 255+ professional certifications from Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA and ISRO, and a verified Hugging Face developer profile.

How can I contact Pranay Mahendrakar?

Email pranaymahendrakar@sonytech.in or call +91 63617 23454. He is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India and works with clients worldwide.

Let's talk

Have a project, a research idea, or want to collaborate on AI? I'd love to hear from you.

Email

pranaymahendrakar@sonytech.in

Phone

+91 63617 23454

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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