Summary
Pandu Gugulothu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 8+ years building and productionizing ML systems across cloud and edge environments, currently serving self-hosted LLMs at ZoomInfo. He has deep expertise in end-to-end pipelines on AWS/GCP, Spark, Airflow/Dataproc and orchestration technologies like Step Functions, and has hands-on experience deploying vector search, Hybrid Search and cascading retrieval at scale using Pinecone and RAG patterns. Pandu has trained GPT- and BERT-style models from scratch and operationalized open-source Llama-family models with TGI, vLLM and TensorRT-LLM, as well as integrating OpenAI and Anthropic APIs into applications. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has a background in embedded vision from IIT Kharagpur and a track record of moving advanced NLP and CV prototypes into secure, enterprise-grade deployments. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-stack fluency—from low-level model optimization to cloud-native deployment—that speeds iteration and reduces cost in production ML.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES, NUZVID
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur