Summary
Pavan Vutukuru is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems across advertising, e-commerce, and cutting-edge AI research. He has advanced experience in transformers, embeddings, recommendation systems, RLHF and post-training fine-tuning from roles at Liftoff, xAI, and eBay, and currently leads ML initiatives at Robinhood. His background spans full-stack and cloud platforms, computer vision and natural language understanding, grounded by a Master’s in Cognitive Science focused on ML and NLP. Early work in embedded systems and hardware-aware temperature sensing informs a pragmatic approach to latency, resource constraints, and deployment trade-offs. He has taught and mentored across academic and outreach settings, pairing research-driven modeling with hands-on production engineering. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, Pavan blends applied research with scalable delivery to turn complex signals into robust, user-facing ML products.
10 years of coding experience