Experience & Skills

Technical Skills & AI Stack

LLM & Generative AI Systems

GraphRAG / RAG Agentic Workflows vLLM & Ollama MCP (Model Context Protocol) Semantic Kernel & AutoGen CrewAI Prompt Engineering LLM Fine-Tuning LoRA / QLoRA RLHF & DPO Model Unlearning Vector DBs (FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone)

Deep Learning & Computational Audition

PyTorch HuggingFace Sound Event Detection Weak / Imprecise Label Learning Multimodal Video & Audio Acoustic Signal Processing JAX & TensorFlow CUDA & DeepSpeed ONNX & TensorRT Audio-Visual Transformers

Languages & Core Technologies

Python (Expert) Bash / Shell Scripting SQL C / C++ SystemVerilog / Verilog Git & GitHub Actions MATLAB HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Cloud Platforms & MLOps

Microsoft Azure (Azure AI) AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker) Google Cloud (Vertex AI) Docker & Containers Kubernetes MLflow & W&B Ray Triton Inference Server

Professional & Industry Leadership

LLM Architecture Associate Director

Accenture — Center for Advanced AI
Present
  • Led architecture and development of Fortune Analytics — a generative AI business-intelligence platform built in partnership with Fortune Media analyzing 20+ years of Fortune 500 data.
  • Recognized with the prestigious iF Design Award 2025 (User Interface) and filed European patent EP4660825A1 (LLM data visualization architecture).
  • Spearheaded enterprise reasoning models and agentic architectures on Microsoft Foundry, presenting Accenture's reasoning-model framework at Microsoft Ignite 2025.
  • Lead engineering teams delivering state-of-the-art agentic workflows, GraphRAG systems, and enterprise LLM integrations.

Deep Learning Scientist

ReviveMed
2017
  • Developed AI-driven drug discovery models for metabolic diseases.
  • Leveraged tens of thousands of metabolomic data points to discover novel biological pathways and impactful therapeutics.

Verification Engineer & Project Lead

ARM — Systems & Software Group
2015 – 2017
  • Designed and deployed in-house verification platforms to simultaneously verify 52 compute subsystems delivered to silicon partners globally.
  • Served as Project Lead for the first successful chip-to-chip subsystem verification on ARM architecture.
  • Consecutively rated amongst the top 5% engineers globally within ARM for two years.
  • Recipient of the ARM Bravo Award in 2016 & 2017 for uncovering critical RTL bugs and accelerating delivery throughput by 2x.

Component Design Engineer (Intern)

ARM — Systems & Software Group
May – July 2014
  • Designed Low Power Interface protocols for AMBA 4 and ACE specifications across multi-cluster CPU arrangements.

Academic Research & Education

Ph.D. in Language Technologies

Carnegie Mellon University — School of Computer Science
2017 – 2024

Thesis: "Computational Audition with Imprecise Labels" (Advised by Prof. Bhiksha Raj & Prof. Rita Singh, CMU MLSP Group).

  • Researched weakly-supervised sound event detection, learning from label noise, and multimodal video analysis.
  • Published 60+ peer-reviewed papers across top venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICASSP, IJCAI, ACM ICMI, and IEEE/ACM TASLP.
  • Recipient of CMU LTI Fellowship and Conference Travel Grants.

M.S. in Language Technologies

Carnegie Mellon University — School of Computer Science
CMU LTI
  • Advised by Prof. Alexander Hauptmann on Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (DIVA) and acoustic gunshot analysis for public safety.
  • Developed end-to-end activity localization and acoustic weapon categorization pipelines.

B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal
2011 – 2015
  • Awarded the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI 2017) at Rashtrapati Bhavan (top 39 of 2,915 entries nationwide).
  • Recipient of two IEEE Student Enterprise Awards (Region 10) for Quadcopter and Wireless Sensor Network projects ($3,000 total funding).
  • All India Rank 2151 in AIEEE 2011 and qualified IIT-JEE 2011 (Rank 6104).