Vijay Mariappan
Generative AI Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolVijay Mariappan is a Generative AI Engineer with nine years of software engineering experience blending deep learning, cloud-native systems, and low-latency infrastructure. He has shipped scalable gRPC-based services and Kubernetes deployments at Coinbase and now specializes in fine-tuning LLaMA-2 and Mistral models for domain-specific tasks in energy and electrical automation at GE Vernova. As a prompt engineer for Scale AI he honed practical techniques to evaluate and improve generated C/C++/Python/SQL code for security, correctness, and efficiency, and built tooling to grade model outputs. Vijay also explores deploying optimized LLMs and chatbots on constrained edge hardware for real-time industrial use cases, combining hands-on dataset curation with systems integration (SEAPATH, Advantech). Based in Toronto, he pairs systems-level engineering experience from AMD, Dell EMC, and others with a master’s background in networking and telecommunications to bridge model research and production-grade reliability.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master's Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Illinois Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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396answers
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neural-network
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machine-learning
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tensorflow
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python
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Github Skills (13)
keras10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
neural-network9
machine-learning9
recurrent-neural-networks6
word-embeddings6
maxpooling6
tensorflow-datasets6
batch-normalization6
numpy6
tfrecord6
Github contributions (5)
vijayDL/DL-playground
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
vijayDL/learning-pytorch
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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