Summary
Prasanna Kumar is an Associate AI Architect with eight years of experience building production-ready conversational AI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. He has led end-to-end RAG platform development—covering LLM serving, vector databases, embeddings, multimodal document loaders, and deployment with Docker—while implementing security features like role-based access and PII masking. Previously he progressed from NLP and research roles into senior conversational AI engineering, shipping optimized deployments and experimenting with fine-tuning techniques such as QLoRA, LoRA, and DPO. Based in Coimbatore, he combines hands-on model engineering with community leadership from his time as Dean at the School of AI and shares technical insights on his blog. An uncommon strength is his focus on practical guardrails and caching for fast, secure inference, reflecting a product-minded approach to applied ML.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Velammal Institute Of Technology
Telugu, English, Tamil