Shikhar Kwatra
Partner Solutions Architect at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShikhar Kwatra is an AI/ML engineering leader and inventor with over a decade of experience architecting scalable, cost-efficient cloud and generative AI solutions for GSIs and enterprises across the Americas. As Partner AI Deployment Engineering Lead at OpenAI (previously a senior AI/ML partner architect at AWS and an AI/IoT Master Inventor at IBM), he blends hands-on MLOps and solution architecture with strategic partner enablement to accelerate production-grade GenAI deployments. He holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Columbia and is credited with hundreds of patents and multiple peer-reviewed IEEE publications, underscoring a rare combination of prolific invention and applied engineering. Beyond technical leadership, he authors books on generative AI, mentors inventor communities, and champions explainability and bias-detection in ML pipelines. An unexpected thread through his career is a strong hardware-to-cloud fluency—from memristor research and embedded systems to large-scale cloud ML—giving him practical insight into end-to-end productization. He balances intense technical work with creative pursuits like guitar composition and mindfulness, reflecting an inventor’s drive tempered by human-centered curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at Columbia UniversityHigh school graduate PCM with computer Science, High school graduate PCM with computer Science at MJKPS
English, Hindi, Punjabi
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Github Skills (18)
ibm-cloud7
deploying7
mlops-workflow5
aws5
machine-learning5
architecture5
python5
watson5
sap-hana4
pytorch4
deep-learning4
dialogue-systems3
conversation3
issue-tracking3
edtech2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skwatra1992/skwatra1992.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
PacktPublishing/Generative-AI-with-Amazon-Bedrock
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Generative AI with Amazon Bedrock, published by Packt
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 months
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