Summary
Venkata Chinni is a software engineer specializing in machine learning with eight years of experience focused on NLP, deep learning, and production ML systems. Currently at Roku after recent roles at Couture.ai, he has progressed from NLP research at IIIT Hyderabad to applied ML and data science in industry, bridging research insights with product-driven engineering. He has hands-on experience building NLP models and pipelines, with a background in academic research at the Language Technologies Research Centre that informs his practical approach. Based in Bengaluru, he excels at taking prototypes to production and optimizing models for real-world constraints. Colleagues would describe him as research-oriented yet delivery-focused, comfortable moving between model development and deployment. His trajectory shows a consistent deepening of ML responsibility, from internship and research roles to leading ML initiatives in commercial settings.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Telugu, Hindi, English