India-Runs Hackathon 2026 Submission @redrob_official

his video showcases ShortlistWaala, our submission for the Redrob Candidate Discovery & Ranking Challenge. Our goal was to build a production-ready AI recruitment pipeline that intelligently discovers, filters, and ranks candidates beyond simple keyword matching while satisfying strict runtime, reproducibility, and offline execution constraints. 🔥 What You'll See End-to-end architecture walkthrough 11-phase candidate ranking pipeline Hybrid Retrieval (BM25 + Dense Embeddings) Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) LightGBM LambdaRank Cross-Encoder Re-ranking (MS MARCO MiniLM) Feature Engineering & Behavioral Signals Honeypot Detection Candidate Trap Detection Multi-factor Scoring Engine Production-ready Dockerized Pipeline Runtime Optimization using Precomputed Embeddings Submission Validation & Reproducibility 🛠️ Technologies Used Python LightGBM Sentence Transformers BM25 Reciprocal Rank Fusion Cross Encoder (MS MARCO MiniLM) NumPy Pandas Docker Git LFS 📌 Key Highlights ✅ Hybrid AI-based Retrieval Pipeline ✅ Production-ready Modular Architecture ✅ CPU-only Offline Ranking ✅ Runtime under 5 Minutes ✅ Docker Reproducibility ✅ Hugging Face Sandbox Deployment ✅ Explainable Multi-factor Candidate Scoring 🔗 GitHub Repository https://github.com/Srijansarkar17/Shortlis... Thank you for watching! If you found this project interesting, don't forget to ⭐ the repository. #Redrob #RedrobHackathon #IndiaRuns #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #CandidateRanking #RecruitmentAI #HiringAI #InformationRetrieval #SemanticSearch #BM25 #LightGBM #LambdaRank #CrossEncoder #SentenceTransformers #NLP #LLM #Python #Docker #HuggingFace #GitHub #OpenSource #DataScience #SoftwareEngineering #AIProjects #Hackathon #MLEngineering #GenerativeAI