Kiran Lonikar
Vice President Of Artificial Intelligence at Aikenist Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKiran Lonikar is a seasoned software technologist and AI leader with over 30 years of experience and advanced degrees from IISc and IIT Bombay, currently serving as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence. He builds production-grade generative AI and vision systems—enabling offline natural language queries for MongoDB, OCR of structured tabular documents with multimodal VLMs, and foundation models for the medical domain—while prioritizing data security by avoiding hosted LLMs. His background spans end-to-end systems from embedded/network software to cloud-native video analytics (NVidia DeepStream), UAV manned-unmanned teaming, and large-scale ML platforms, reflecting deep expertise across hardware-accelerated inference, model fine-tuning, and real-time pipelines. He holds two patents in mobile advertising and a long-standing interest in PEFT research, aiming to advance methods beyond LoRA/QLoRA. Notably, he blends academic rigor with practical productization—shipping novel tools like a JS-based historical events visualizer and a multilingual “talking keyboard” Facebook app—demonstrating a rare mix of systems architecture, ML research, and user-centered innovation.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M E Computer Science and Automation, M E Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Github Skills (66)
python10
gstreamer10
r10
scale10
sql10
spark10
java10
scala10
jdbc10
intel9
big-data9
data-processing9
high-performance9
hadoop9
apache-spark9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
klonikar/spark
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
klonikar/ml
Mar 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
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