Nagkumar Arkalgud
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNagkumar Arkalgud is a Python-centric full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backends and multi-cloud strategies from Seattle. He blends hands-on backend development with ML-focused work, contributing to high-profile open-source tooling like Microsoft’s Promptflow—where he built QA data generators, adversarial simulators, and integrations for LLM evaluation and recording. Comfortable across the stack, he brings production-grade API, testing, and RAI integration experience that helps move ML prototypes into reliable services. With a Master’s in Software Engineering and a foundation in computer science, he pairs strong engineering rigor with practical cloud architecture know-how.
11 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at SJB Institute of Technology
Hindi, Kannada, English
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Github Skills (26)
openai-api10
python10
testing10
prompt10
llm10
prompt-engineering10
ai10
prompter10
microsoft-azure9
jinja29
azure9
git8
cicd7
rest-api6
highcharts6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/promptflow
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Build high-quality LLM apps - from prototyping, testing to production deployment and monitoring.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer & Back-end Developer
ML Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 reviews, 32 PRs, 229 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nagkumar contributed significantly to the promptflow-evals submodule, developing features for generating and simulating question-answer (QA) data. They implemented a QA data generator, added a simulator, and made several bug fixes and enhancements related to the adversarial simulator, indicating expertise in LLM application development. The changes also included modifications to the underlying code for OpenAI API calls and RAI service integration, demonstrating back-end development skills. They also made updates to the test suite to integrate with the promptflow-recording library and added custom dimensions.
aiai-application-developmentai-applicationschatgptgpt
nagkumar91/azure-sdk-for-python
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.
Contributions:2 PRs, 372 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 1 month
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