Venkata Pappu
Director Of Machine Learning at SolarWinds
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVenkata Pappu is a Director of Machine Learning based in Bengaluru with nine years of experience building production-grade AI platforms and leading ML teams. He currently runs the ML organization at SolarWinds, focusing on agent orchestration, LLM integration, and platformization of AI services after progressing from Principal and Senior Staff ML engineering roles. His background spans startups and enterprise R&D—leading ML architecture at Ether Labs (acquired by Atlassian), and serving as Chief Data Scientist at 4CRisk.ai—where he built microservice-driven pipelines, knowledge graphs, and transformer-based NLU systems. He combines hands-on model work (TensorFlow/PyTorch, finetuning, distillation) with operational know-how (Docker, AWS Lambda, SageMaker) to move research into resilient, low-latency production. Notably, he has a track record of shipping optimized on-device and cloud ML solutions—having prototyped lightweight DL frameworks and AI-on-chip integrations. He holds applied ML credentials from Insofe and a self-driving car nanodegree, reflecting both breadth and applied research curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Machine Learning Applied Engineering, Applied Machine Learning Applied Engineering at International School of Engineering (Insofe)Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer, Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer at UdacityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at JNTU, Kakinada
English, Telugu, Kannada
Github Skills (11)
nlp3
natural-language-processing3
electra3
pytorch2
bert2
transformer2
classification1
word-embeddings1
machine-learning1
similarity1
language-model1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vdpappu/CarND-Behavioral-Cloning-P3
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 day
cloningbehavioralbehavioral-cloningudacity
vdpappu/agentic_ai
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 6 days
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