Vaikunth Thukral
Lead Data Scientist
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorVaikunth Thukral is a Lead Data Scientist based in Menlo Park with 11 years of experience building AI systems in production at scale, currently shaping AI/ML strategy and pipelines at Salesforce. He combines hands-on expertise in generative AI, LLMs, data engineering and scalable distributed systems with technical and people leadership, advising VP+ stakeholders and driving cross-organizational roadmaps. Known for turning research into repeatable data products, he evangelizes data culture through publishing, teaching, and tooling integration. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, and a broad language set (Python, C++, SQL, R), he focuses on practical architectures that make advanced models operational and actionable. An avid connector between research and product, he often surfaces less-visible gains—like improved experimentation velocity and data hygiene—that materially boost adoption and growth.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
docker2
database2
prototyping2
kubernetes2
datasets1
nosql-database1
scale1
postgresql1
sql1
k8s1
large-scale1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lsst/qserv_testdata
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 months
vaikuntht/dot-config
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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