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Abhinav Velaga

Full-Stack Al/ML Engineer | GenAI LLMs MLOps Cloud DevOps Cybersecurity | 20+ ProductionSystems with 25-40% Efficiency Gains & 3x Scalability

United States

< 1 year of work experience

Salesforce
Jul 20262 mosPresent

California, United States

Norfolk Southern
Jul 20262 mosPresent

United States

Cognizant
Jun 20263 mosPresent

United States

Cognizant
May 20264 mosPresent

Hybrid

UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Apr 20265 mosPresent

Cognizant
Apr 20262 mosMay 2026

Hybrid

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jan 20264 mosApr 2026

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Abhinav’s AI Stack

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Education

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Master's degree, Computer Science

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

20251 yr2026
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Post Graduate Diploma, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20241 yr2025

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Headline

Full-Stack Al/ML Engineer | GenAI LLMs MLOps Cloud DevOps Cybersecurity | 20+ ProductionSystems with 25-40% Efficiency Gains & 3x Scalability

About

Technology professional with hands-on experience delivering end-to-end systems across AI/ML, Generative AI, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, MLOps, cybersecurity, and data platforms. • Built and deployed 12+ AI/ML and GenAI solutions—including LLM-powered chatbots, NLP pipelines, and recommendation engines—improving automation and decision-making efficiency by 25–40% • Developed 15+ full-stack applications and APIs, supporting 10K+ users with 99.9% uptime • Designed and optimized cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), reducing infrastructure costs by 20–30% while enabling 3× scalability • Implemented CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation, reducing deployment time by 50–70% • Applied MLOps practices (model versioning, monitoring, retraining), improving model performance by 15–25% and minimizing production issues • Deployed and managed production ML models using automated CI/CD workflows for continuous integration, testing, and delivery • Applied security-first practices, identifying and mitigating 40+ vulnerabilities, strengthening system reliability and compliance • Engineered data pipelines handling 2–5 TB of structured and unstructured data, enabling analytics and ML workflows • Strong Python programming skills with hands-on experience using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Hugging Face for building, training, fine-tuning, and deploying ML and LLM-based models • Proficient in SQL, working extensively with structured and unstructured datasets for analytics, feature engineering, and machine learning pipelines • Hands-on experience with AWS services, including SageMaker for ML model training and deployment, EC2, S3, and Lambda for scalable cloud-based workflows • Experience containerizing applications and ML workloads using Docker, and orchestrating cloud-based infrastructure with Kubernetes • Applied computer vision techniques as part of intelligent systems and ML-driven decision-support applications Technical Domains AI • ML • GenAI • LLMs • NLP • Computer Vision • Software Engineering • Full-Stack • Cloud • AWS • DevOps • CI/CD • MLOps • Docker • Kubernetes • Cybersecurity • Data Engineering • SQL • Python • Automation • APIs I focus on delivering measurable outcomes—performance gains, cost efficiency, reliability, and security—while collaborating with cross-functional teams to take solutions from concept to production. 📌 Open to opportunities in AI/ML, Software Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, MLOps, and Cybersecurity 📌 Interested in high-impact roles, modern tech stacks, and growth-focused teams

Location

United States

AI stack

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Work experience

Technical Architect at Salesforce, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, California, United States

Technical Architect - Vendor at Norfolk Southern, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, United States

Technical Architect at Cognizant, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, United States

Technical Lead at Cognizant, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Hybrid

Technical Lead - Vendor at UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos

Agentic AI Architect at Cognizant, Apr 2026 - May 2026 · 2 mos, Hybrid

Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Jan 2026 - Apr 2026 · 4 mos, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Post Graduate Diploma, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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