Summary
Tilak D is an AI/ML engineering leader based in Bengaluru with nearly a decade of experience building production-grade computer vision and perception systems for automotive and robotics applications. He has led cross-functional global teams at Ford and Wabtec, delivering large-scale data platforms, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and transformer-based image/video search models that process hundreds of thousands of videos for ADAS and AV validation. His hands-on background spans LiDAR and camera fusion, synthetic data generation (Unity3D and GANs), edge and cloud deployment, and building internal tools for annotation and inference-as-a-service. Notably, he has driven product-level platforms from design to production, managed petabytes of perception data, and mentored thousands of students through Udacity—bringing both deep technical execution and talent-building strengths.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ramaiah Institute Of Technology
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
SSLC, SSLC at Hymamshu Jyothy Kala Peetha
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil