Deepthi Karkada
Co-Founder & Head Of AI Engineering at Stesso
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepthi Karkada is an AI engineering leader and co-founder with eight years’ experience building and optimizing deep learning systems for real-world products, from Intel-scale performance work to startup-facing LLM and video-analysis solutions. At Stesso she leads LLM fine-tuning, NLP pipelines and video content analysis to turn DIY/how-to content into personalized shopping guides, while designing scalable cloud AI infrastructure and prompt engineering workflows. Previously at Intel she drove deep learning framework optimizations and bespoke ML/DL solutions for NLP and vision, earning an Intel Achievement Award for impactful delivery. She combines research pedigree—co-authoring peer-reviewed ML/DL papers—with hands-on production skills in training and inference optimization, and a pragmatic focus on user-centric AI that boosts engagement and conversion. An engineer who bridges low-level performance tuning and product-first model design, she’s on a mission to revolutionize instructional video commerce.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and computer Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (63)
classification10
diffusion-models10
openvino10
segmentation10
medical-image-analysis10
computer-vision10
nlp10
biomedical-image-processing9
recommendation-system9
transformers9
pytorch9
python9
inference-engine9
machine-learning9
stable-diffusion9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karkadad/GaNDLF
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
A generalizable application framework for segmentation, regression, and classification using PyTorch
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
pytorchregressionsegmentationpythondeep-learning
karkadad/openvino_notebooks
May 2022 - Jul 2022
📚 A collection of Jupyter notebooks for learning and experimenting with OpenVINO 👓
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
experimentingjupyter-notebooknotebooksopenvinojupyter
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