KYC automation pipeline
Kuda Technologies
7 days to 4 hours verification time
Problem
KYC verification took 7 days end to end, requiring a large manual review team. A hard bottleneck to customer onboarding at scale.
What I built
Scoped, designed, and shipped an end to end KYC automation system using vision language models (Gemini Flash, Qwen3 8B VL), taking it from initial problem definition through model selection, fine tuning, and production deployment. System classifies identity documents, detects fraudulent submissions, and auto approves customers exceeding confidence thresholds.
Results
- Verification time reduced from 7 days to 4 hours.
- System now handles the majority of KYC decisions autonomously, with human review reserved for edge cases only.
Stack
- Gemini Flash
- Qwen3 8B VL
- Python
- Prompt engineering
- VLM fine tuning