Valliappa Lakshmanan
Co-Founder And CTO at ObinAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Valliappa Lakshmanan is a seasoned AI and data leader with 10+ years of experience building production ML systems, now serving as Co-Founder and CTO of ObinAI and an ongoing author at O'Reilly. He has led data and AI teams at Google and Silver Lake and previously built market-leading weather products as Director of Meteorology at The Climate Corporation, blending domain science with scalable engineering. He’s authored multiple books on GenAI, ML design patterns, BigQuery, and ML platforms, translating complex techniques into practical, repeatable patterns for practitioners. An active contributor to GoogleCloudPlatform repos, his hands-on work includes image captioning, TFRecord pipelines, BigQuery data pipelines, and reproducible ML workflows—code that supports popular educational and production examples. He combines deep academic training (PhD) with product-focused leadership, often bridging research, tooling and business impact. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that move models from notebooks into reliable, cloud-native deployments.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical & Computer Engg., PhD Electrical & Computer Engg. at University of OklahomaHigh School, High School at St. John's Besant NagarHigh School, High School at P. S. Senior Secondary SchoolIndian Institute of Technology MadrasMS Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, MS Electrical & Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/data-science-on-gcp
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Source code accompanying book: Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform, Valliappa Lakshmanan, O'Reilly 2017
Role in this project:
Data Scientist & ML Engineer
Data Scientist & ML EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 305 commits, 60 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Valliappa's commits focus on implementing and optimizing machine learning models within the context of flight delay prediction. They were involved in developing and testing a logistic regression model and, furthermore, experimented with building deep neural networks using Keras in a TensorFlow 2 environment. Their work included constructing input data pipelines with tf.data and conducting model evaluation, showing expertise in model development and related preprocessing steps.
data-sciencegoogle-cloud-platformdata-analysisdata-visualizationcloud-computing
GoogleCloudPlatform/bigquery-oreilly-book
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Source code accompanying: BigQuery: The Definitive Guide by Lakshmanan & Tigani to be published by O'Reilly Media
Role in this project:Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Valliappa's commits primarily involve the development of data pipelines for loading data into BigQuery. They create and utilize bash scripts to load data from various sources, including GCS and local files, using CSV formats. The scripts involve schema definition, data transformation, and external table definitions. Their work supports the loading and querying of data for the BigQuery: The Definitive Guide.
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