Akhil Vempali
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Atlassian
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkhil Vempali is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production AI systems and distributed infrastructure. He has driven end-to-end ML efforts—from NLP pipelines and LLM integrations to system design, deployment, and caching—at companies including Netomi and Atlassian, improving training times by 90% and chatbot response latencies to ~50 ms. Proficient in Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, and SQL, he focuses on developer experience and scalable inference for conversational AI. His work blends research on LLMs with pragmatic engineering, having led teams and technical interviews while shipping production libraries such as an extensible date-detection module that raised accuracy by 28%. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a systems-minded approach rooted in an instrumentation and control engineering background and a track record of reducing operational toil for business users.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologySenior Secondary, Science, Senior Secondary, Science at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
English, Hindi, Telugu
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (29)
natural-language-understanding9
huggingface9
falcon9
nlp8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
bloom8
text-generation8
pytorch7
inference7
huggingface-transformers7
react7
transformer6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vempaliakhil96/hand-detection
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
This is app detects open hand gesture and performs keyboard action when the gesture is detected
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 3 months
handwritingkeyboardapp-ishandgesture
vempaliakhil96/mle-prep
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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