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title: "Karthik Sunkishala - Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Karthik Sunkishala, Building AI Platforms | IIT Bhubaneswar CSE’21 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes Braintrust, Bubble AI, and Modal."
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# Karthik Sunkishala on Tal

## Headline

Building AI Platforms \| IIT Bhubaneswar CSE’21

## About

🚀 Building Scalable AI/ML Systems Most recently, I was an SDE 3 at Inferless, where we were building serverless model inferencing\. My work involved architecting and developing scalable components/platforms from scratch to support custom models efficiently\. Previously, I was an SDE 2 at Dream11, where I contributed to building a unified Machine Learning platform\. 🔹 Proficient in: Backend Systems, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, ML/AIOps, 🔹 Programming Languages: Python, Golang, Rust, C 🔹 Cloud Expertise: AWS \| GCP \| Azure My passion lies in AI/ML systems, and I am committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in this exciting domain\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

Braintrust

Bubble AI

Modal

## Work experience

Engineering at aion, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Tech Lead for the Ai Platforms Charter\. Solving interesting problems across inference optimisations, fine\-tuning pipelines, productionising enterprise agents and their evals

SDE 3 at Inferless, Nov 2023 \- Oct 2025 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Founding Engineer\. Built a reliable & fast serverless GPU Inference Platform for LLMs Reduced Cold Starts from minutes to seconds at scale

SDE 2 at Dream11, Jul 2023 \- Nov 2023 · 5 mos, On\-site, Built unified Machine Learning Platform @Dream11 1\. Held ownership of core components of the platform\. 2\. Led multiple POCs with Ray, GPUs and GenAI\. 3\. Designed and Implemented a multi\-cloud architecture on AWS & GCP 4\. Worked closely with data scientists in scaling model inference to a Million concurrency

SDE\-1 at Dream11, Jun 2021 \- Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Building a unified ML Platform where I have primarily worked on designing, developing and scaling ML Compute and ML Inference Systems\. Worked extensively with Python, Kubernetes, Ray, Golang and AWS

EID intern at GE Healthcare, Jun 2020 \- Aug 2020 · 3 mos

## Education

BTech \- Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

## Profile highlights

What I'm currently working on: I am leading the AI platform services team at Aion, focusing on managed inference and LLM optimization frameworks\.

What's hard for others but easy for me…: Architecting distributed compute platforms for ML training is straightforward for me because I enjoy solving for scale and latency\.

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