Summary
Rajiv Kumar is a Director of Data Science at Oracle with over two decades of industry experience and more than five years specifically building and deploying large-scale generative AI systems. He has hands-on expertise fine-tuning and aligning leading models (Llama 3, Mistral, GPT-series, Claude) for enterprise domains such as legal, healthcare, customer support, and creative content. Rajiv leads end-to-end GenAI product delivery—prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks and operational guardrails—prioritizing cost-efficiency, latency optimization, hallucination mitigation and measurable business outcomes. His background spans core NLP, AI fairness, and productionization of skill and signal extraction pipelines, reflecting a rare blend of research-grade modeling and pragmatic engineering. Based in Leander, Texas, he actively contributes to the generative AI community through open-source work, blogs and talks, and is known for translating advanced models into safe, revenue-driving features. An understated strength is his cross-functional track record of embedding adaptive intelligence across Cloud and HCM products, turning complex model capabilities into usable enterprise experiences.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech IT, B.Tech IT at Kurukshetra University
N.A Predictive Analytics, N.A Predictive Analytics at University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Denver
English