yoga komerla — Director of Engineering
A seasoned AI engineering Leader adept in building scalable, distributed and performant data and AI , Agentic applications keeping optimal Architecture, design and automation, innovation into consideration. Drove and collaborated with global clients on LLM and AI based use cases to enrich customer experiences, Driver experiences and Support staff. A supply chain specialist well skilled in Architecting , Building and Managed Platforms for Middle and Last Mile services catering to global Walmart Clients for estimated time of arrival, tracking location with micro services-based architecture. Adept in using ML/LLMs/Agentic Frameworks(Google Vertex, Agent space, LLMGraph, Relevance AI, Microsoft's Augotgen/Flow, Crewai..etc) for Optimising Driver load time, Doorstep time, store pickup time using AI/ML and data insights. A cost conscious leader who actively keeps an active tab on cloud/platform costs by brining in multi-tenant architecture for global Walmart clients which helped to reduce blast radius Optimised cloud/Genai costs by deploying various optimising techniques like model switching, caching, rate limiting, Token, prompt ,auto scaling of pods, reducing logs, MPS, compression etc Instrumental in designing and implementing LLM based use cases for Walmart using LLM Gateways, rate limiting, Filtering , security, authorization, authentication, data security, RBAC policies, orchestration layer, content validation, Ops etc Drove multiple LLM based use cases across Walmart – use case-based search, Conversational based product discovery, seller problem patterns etc Played a key role in bringing in process-based approach for Langchain design for input formatting, speed up LLM processing(streaming, token optimisation, prompt engineering), output processing, memory management and context management , LLM tuning with enhanced model training(PEFT), design RAG.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned AI and Big Data architect with expertise in retail and digital transformation.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 20 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Large Language Models (llm)
- Mlops
- Big Data Architect
- Ai/ml Lead
- Digital Transformation
- Big Data
- Analytics
Career Highlights
- Expert in LLM and AI-based applications.
- Proven track record in optimizing cloud costs.
- Strong leadership in driving digital transformation.
Work Experience
Walmart
Senior Engineering Manager II (4 yrs 3 mos)
EY
Senior Manager (2 yrs 5 mos)
Fidelity Investments
Senior Technical Manager (2 yrs 3 mos)
PayPal
Manager (1 yr 6 mos)
Sony India Software Centre
Sr Manager - DW / BI / BIG DATA / Analytics (6 mos)
StratApps
Sr. Technical Manger (1 yr 6 mos)
DEW SOFTWARE INC
IT Program Manager (11 mos)
MSAT
DW BI Architect and Program Manager (6 yrs 11 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Time Institute of Management Studies
