Bhavana Tumma

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful GPT-5 simship at Microsoft.
Delivered impactful projects in AI and ML.
Achieved 95%+ trip acceptance rate in delivery systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled AI and Machine Learning engineer with extensive experience in software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Machine LearningFull-stack Development

Other Skills

PythonAzure MLMLflowFoundation ModelsXGBoostJavaAdobe Experience ManagerHuman Computer InteractionPublic SpeakingManagementComputer VisionOrigamiScikit-LearnmlrosePyTorch

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Python developer, Machine Learning, AI Platform, Research & Development

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer @ CoreAI

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Led the GPT-5 simship from the Azure OpenAI Runtime team, ensuring day-one availability in Azure AI Foundry. This enabled rapid adoption across Copilot experiences and external customers building on the platform.

PythonMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Software Engineer 2 @ AI Platform

Oct 2021 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Delivered projects across Azure ML, Foundation Models, and Azure OpenAI Runtime teams, driving impact from core ML to large-scale model deployments. In Azure ML, built the foundations for model storage and deployment pipelines with MLflow, enabling scalable ML operations.
As part of the Foundation Models team, worked on vLLM and MLflow Transformers, playing a key role in onboarding and releasing LLaMA, LLaMA 2, Phi, and Phi-2 into the Azure Model Catalog, alongside 30+ other models spanning summarization, text generation, and vision tasks. Collaborated closely with MSR researchers on the Phi models.
In the Azure OpenAI Runtime team, partnered with OpenAI and Onsite Microsoft engineers to lead the simship release of GPT-4.1, optimize GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 for NVIDIA GPUs, and improve internal infra. Also built an agent framework to accelerate future simships from Microsoft.

PythonMachine LearningAzure MLMLflowFoundation ModelsArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Walmart labs

Software Engineer III

Jun 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Led core engineering initiatives in Walmart’s Supply Chain Technology team, focusing on last-mile delivery and the Driver Management System. Designed and deployed backend features such as tracking batched and returned orders across the U.S., while also creating new driver suggestion strategies to improve delivery efficiency. Partnered with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions end-to-end, from design to deployment. Additionally, worked on an XGBoost-based model that incorporated fairness, ETA, and on-time delivery factors to allocate orders optimally to drivers—contributing to a 95%+ trip acceptance rate and more timely deliveries.

PythonMachine LearningXGBoost

Adobe

Associate Technical Consultant

Aug 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), building dynamic, large-scale websites and content applications using Java and full-stack development. Partnered with global clients to deliver enterprise solutions, integrating third-party APIs and ensuring secure, performant user experiences. Took initiative in streamlining workflows and exploring early ML-driven enhancements that improved content management efficiency.

JavaFull-stack DevelopmentAdobe Experience Manager