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12 Years · Google · Big Tech · Silicon Valley → Hyderabad

Vikram

Enterprise AI Architect · AI-Assisted Systems Builder

Senior AI/ML engineer who has spent a career building intelligent systems at the frontier — long before Generative AI became mainstream. Across six high-impact projects at Google and 24 AI-assisted builder projects, I have architected production-grade solutions spanning LLM infrastructure, conversational NLP, real-time personalization, data platform engineering, large-scale fraud detection, and AI-assisted systems prototyping.

12+ Years in AI
VP Award Winner
24 AI-Assisted projects
$30M Scalable impact
6 Enterprise projects

Professional Journey

2023 — Present
Senior AI Architect · GenAI Platform Lead
Google · Hyderabad
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Led end-to-end architecture and productionization of the GenAI QA Automation system — replacing manual vendor review workflows across 32 products and 76 workflows with LLM-powered evaluation infrastructure. Established $3.7M initial verified impact with ~$30M scalable potential. Owned the full experimentation and optimization roadmap.
2021 — 2023
ML Platform Engineer · Signal Infrastructure
Google · Hyderabad
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Designed and launched the Signal Metadata Repository — a six-layer centralized platform governing ML signal lifecycle across support systems. Simultaneously led the Differentiated Care program, building spend-based behavioral segmentation signals with privacy-first architecture approved through the Privacy Working Group process.
2019 — 2021
Tech Lead · Personalization & Conversational AI
Google · Mountain View / Remote
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Led development of the Personalized Help Experiences platform — hybrid ML + heuristics serving millions of users in real time with cross-product signal federation. Concurrently spearheaded the Ecommerce Refunds on Assistant project, earning a VP Award for significant contact deflection and measurable operational cost reduction.
2017 — 2019
ML Engineer · Trust & Safety
Google · Mountain View
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Built the AdWords Fraud Detection platform — anomaly detection engine and account review tooling empowering 200+ human reviewers to identify millions of abusive accounts across the global ad exchange ecosystem. Earned a VP Award for ecosystem integrity impact. Mentored multiple engineers with direct contributions to L4 → L5 technical lead promotions.
2013 — 2017
Software Engineer · AI/ML Foundations
Big Tech · Silicon Valley
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Early career building the systems thinking, platform architecture instincts, and production engineering standards that underpin all subsequent work. Developed cross-functional collaboration skills across NLP, data engineering, and ML infrastructure teams — laying the technical foundation for a decade of high-impact AI leadership.
Builder Track

AI-Assisted Development Projects

In parallel with the Google career, 24 AI-assisted projects were built across 13 domains — from self-organising mesh networks to local LLM video pipelines. Below are the 11 principal projects with their session counts and current status.

Pollen Mesh
112 sessions · Active

Self-organising mesh with QUIC/mTLS, CRDT state, WASM runtime. Decentralised peer-to-peer cluster for heterogeneous devices.

Firewalla Local Manager
13 sessions · Active

Local-only Firewalla management CLI/TUI/Web UI with Python SDK. Zero cloud dependency after pairing.

Video Pipeline
12 sessions · Complete

LLM-driven video editing pipeline — transcribe, EDL, render. Zero cloud APIs.

RefundFlow
9 sessions · Stale

Customer-support refund automation SaaS with AI agent using LangChain + Ollama.

PAN — Personal Area Network
7 sessions · Active

Multi-device mesh orchestration with NATS, WASM plugins, Syncthing. Bootstrap from one command.

Obsidian Organizer
6 sessions · Complete

Local LLM vault organization — MLX-LM for text, MLX-VLM for images, Tauri 2 GUI.

CRUSH TUI
5 sessions · Vendor

Vendored Bubble Tea terminal UI framework for AI-assisted development.

Video3D Experiments
5 sessions · Stale

Three.js + Theatre.js + HyperFrames pipeline for programmatic 3D animation.

Firewalla HA Integration
5 sessions · Vendor

Home Assistant custom component for Firewalla Purple — HACS integration.

IntentCore
3 sessions · Stale

Intent-based data architecture desktop app — Tauri 2 + MLX + Qwen2.5-3B.

Cozy Comet
3 sessions · Complete

macOS LaunchAgent daemon — watches Desktop/Documents, classifies changes via Ollama.

"I believe in building AI that is not only innovative but also reliable, scalable, and ethically grounded. My approach combines deep technical execution with strategic foresight — because the most important question in AI isn't what you can build today, but what will still be standing five years from now."
— Vikram, Enterprise AI Architect

Skills Inventory

AI & Machine Learning
LLMs / GenAI RAG Systems Prompt Engineering TensorFlow ML Serving (Servo) Personalization Anomaly Detection NLP / NLU Graph ML Fraud Detection A/B Testing Signal Engineering Few-shot Learning Synthetic Data
Engineering & Infrastructure
Java Python C++ TVFs Flume Dataflow Apache Beam Vertex AI Microservices RPC Services AngularJS Async Batching Rate Limiting Config Systems Google Cloud
Leadership & Strategy
Platform Architecture Technical Strategy Cross-team Collaboration L4 → L5 Mentorship Privacy Reviews (PWG) Roadmap Planning Production Launches AI Productization Startup Advisory Cost Optimization FHIR / HIPAA MLOps Governance

Beyond Code

Passionate about mentoring the next generation of engineers — several of the engineers I worked with closely have gone on to technical lead promotions, and watching that transition from individual contributor to technical leader is among the most satisfying parts of this work.

Bridging Silicon Valley and India's tech ecosystem has been a defining thread of my career. Having operated inside Big Tech in the US and now building from Hyderabad, I understand both the ambition of the Indian engineering talent pool and the quality bar required to compete globally. That dual perspective shapes how I advise founders and evaluate architecture.

Outside of AI systems, I'm drawn to the structural problems: why some organizations build durable things and others build impressive things that don't last. That question applies equally to software systems, teams, and companies — and it's the lens through which I approach all strategic work.

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