Animesh Kumar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnimesh Kumar is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and MS student at UC San Diego with eight years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across ML inference, cloud platforms, and backend services. He combines hands-on LLM research—optimizing inference pipelines and developing Mixture-of-Experts model-merging techniques—with practical delivery, having shipped unified IAM services at AppFolio and a cloud operations platform used by 80+ teams at Oracle. His work includes measurable impact (e.g., 7.4x higher serving throughput in vLLM optimizations and multi‑region Terraform deployments) and contributions to prominent open-source projects like Kubernetes CSI and GrimoireLab. Comfortable across Python, Java, Go, cloud providers, and distributed/event-driven architectures, he bridges research and engineering to move generative AI from prototype to production. Animesh’s background reveals a knack for reducing operational cost and latency while preserving model fidelity—useful for teams scaling real-world LLM deployments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.05/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.05/10 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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Github Skills (30)
unit-testing10
apim10
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
python10
fetchr10
testing10
data-mining10
fetcher10
go10
api10
fetch10
kubernetes-pods10
backend10
test-automation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Send Sir Perceval on a quest to retrieve and gather data from software repositories.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 14 PRs, 99 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Animesh primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `grimoirelab-perceval` project, focusing on adding and improving data source connectors. They added a new Pagure backend, updated and fixed existing backends like Groupsio, Gitter, Discourse, GitHub, Mattermost, and Slack to align with API changes, and addressed issues in tests. Their contributions also included sanitizing requests for archiving purposes, showing a deep understanding of the data fetching and mining aspects of the project.
repositoriespercevalpythonpypiquest
kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-smb
May 2020 - Jul 2020
This driver allows Kubernetes to access SMB Server on both Linux and Windows nodes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 42 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Animesh primarily focused on improving the robustness and testing of the SMB CSI driver. They fixed a security issue by removing password exposure in logs and implemented unit tests for csi-common, mounter, and smb packages. They also added and updated existing tests, including e2e tests, and introduced a test mode for running unit tests. Additionally, they updated the integration tests to use a different Docker image.
k8s-sig-storagewindowslinuxnodescsi-driver
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