Vik K
CTO at Moondream AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVik K is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building scalable systems across machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, formal verification, security, and HCI. After nearly a decade at AWS leading software development, he now steers product and engineering at Moondream AI, where he continues hands-on work—most recently implementing core components of a tiny vision-language model that bridges vision encoders with text generation and streaming outputs. Based in Seattle and an IIT Mandi computer science alumnus, he combines systems-level rigor with ML research instincts, often solving problems at the intersection of multiple domains. Colleagues value him for translating complex, cross-disciplinary research into usable, production-ready features.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
English, Telugu, Hindi
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Github Skills (17)
text-generation10
pytorch10
integrate10
machine-learning10
integrations10
computer-vision10
data-integration10
image-preprocessing10
git9
ubuntu6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
libevent6
git-commit6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vikhyat/moondream
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
tiny vision language model
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 79 PRs, 274 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Vik implemented core functionalities for a vision language model. They added a vision encoder module with preprocessing steps and integrated it within the project's architecture, demonstrating a focus on computer vision tasks. Subsequent commits focused on building a simple text generation interface, showcasing the user's capability to integrate vision models with text-based functionalities. Further commits show the incorporation of features like loading and using pre-trained models, and streaming outputs to stdout, suggesting an active role in model development and usability enhancement.
hummingbird-me/ansible-deploy
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 7 months
deployingansibleansible-scriptshummingbird
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