Abhishek Shivkumar
Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAbhishek Shivkumar is a product-focused AI leader and Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 15+ years of experience turning cutting-edge ML research into customer-facing products across LLMs, agentic AI, computer vision, speech and NLP. He has led and scaled high-performance data science teams, shortening development cycles while delivering measurable business impact in regulated domains such as medical device safety. Hands-on throughout his career, he’s implemented production LLM systems (RAG, fine-tuning, smolagents/LlamaIndex/LangGraph), multimodal video Q&A, and large-scale CV and speech models for identity, pathology biomarkers, and fashion understanding. An inventor on 10+ granted patents and author of multiple papers and open-source tooling (e.g., clinical linguistic feature extractor BlaBla), he blends deep research literacy with pragmatic engineering. Based in the UK, he excels at cross-functional collaboration—translating ambiguous product needs into scalable architectures that balance safety, human-in-the-loop oversight, and agentic autonomy. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained focus on regulated, safety-critical applications where practical LLM governance and traceability are paramount.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Electronics and Communication, B.E, Electronics and Communication at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityM.Tech, Information Technology, Machine Learning and Machine Vision, M.Tech, Information Technology, Machine Learning and Machine Vision at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreB.E, Electronics and Communication, B.E, Electronics and Communication at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore1st to 9th, English, 1st to 9th, English at National Public School, Bangalore
Github Skills (91)
python10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
visual-question-answering10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
face9
face-recognition9
facenet9
jax9
feature-extraction9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
novoic/blabla
May 2020 - Sep 2023
Novoic's linguistic feature extraction library
Contributions:1 comment in 3 years 4 months
extractionspeech-and-language-processingtext-processinglinguisticphonetics
abhisheksgumadi/sentiment-analysis-word2vec
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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