Rithin Chalumuri
Co-Founder & CTO at Vela
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRithin Chalumuri is a founder-CTO and software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native platforms, ML-enabled services, and DevSecOps tooling across startups and scale-ups. As Co-Founder & CTO of Vela, he’s architecting rewards infrastructure that drives loyalty while nudging sustainable, low-carbon consumer choices. He blends hands-on system design, automation, and ML experience (from research-grade genetic algorithms to deployed PyTorch models) with practical cloud expertise across AWS and Azure to ship reliable production systems. Previously he led platform engineering and productivity improvements at Pinewood.AI and contributed data-product engineering at TrueLayer, often stepping into first-line leadership and mentorship roles. Curious and research-minded, he’s comfortable moving from algorithmic prototypes to hardened infrastructure, and he prioritises measurable impact when solving real-world problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
GCE A-Levels, GCE A-Levels at Sancta Maria International School, HyderabadMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at University of BathCambridge IGCSE International Baccalaureate - Middle Years Programme, Cambridge IGCSE International Baccalaureate - Middle Years Programme at Gandhi Memorial International School, JakartaBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Coventry University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Indonesian
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Github Skills (55)
docker10
docker-compose10
rabbitmq10
event-driven10
docker-container10
rest-api10
nodejs10
boilerplate10
koa10
mongodb10
genetic-algorithm9
python9
plug-and-play9
microservices9
azure-pipelines8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rithinch/jam-intelligent-agent-rover-simulation
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rithinch/session-based-vehicle-recommendations
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
:car: Adapted graph neural network architecture for recommending used vehicles in an online automotive retail context. Models trained and deployed to the cloud the using PyTorch and Azure ML Service.
Contributions:53 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
azuregraph-neural-networkmachine-learningpytorch
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