Summary
Venkatesh Sriram is an AI Lead Architect based in Hyderabad with 12 years of experience designing and delivering production-grade AI/ML systems across media and automotive industries. He recently joined Hearst after seven years as a Lead AI/ML Engineer at Ford, where he focused on applying machine learning to complex, safety- and scale-sensitive problems. Trained in machine learning, data science, and computer vision at the University of Michigan and with an electrical engineering background from IIT Bhubaneswar, he blends strong academic foundations with practical engineering. Venkatesh’s career spans roles from research internships to hands-on ML engineering at Magna and Ford, giving him a rare view of both prototyping and deploying robust models in regulated environments. He is known for translating research-grade vision and ML models into scalable systems that meet production constraints and business goals. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, data, and engineering teams while keeping technical debt and operational risk in check.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Machine Learning Data Science and Computer Vision Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Machine Learning Data Science and Computer Vision Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate School
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar
English, Telugu, Hindi