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title: "Abhinav Velaga - Technical Architect in United States | Tal"
description: "Meet Abhinav Velaga, Full-Stack Al/ML Engineer | GenAI LLMs MLOps Cloud DevOps Cybersecurity | 20+ ProductionSystems with 25-40% Efficiency Gains & 3x Scalability based in United States. AI stack includes codex, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Abhinav Velaga on Tal

## 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

codex

opencode

claudecode

## 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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