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title: "Skand Tandon - Mlops in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Skand Tandon, Inference @Sarvam | HPE | Samsung based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes codex and claudecode."
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# Skand Tandon on Tal

## Headline

Inference @Sarvam \| HPE \| Samsung

## About

Turning Clusters into Thinking Machine

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

codex

claudecode

## Work experience

Mlops at Sarvam, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Cloud Developer I at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Mar 2023 \- Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Engineered LoRA based fine\-tuning for Hugging Face models using PyTorch, Ray and PEFT • Integrated NVIDIA NIM with K8s solution accelerators, incorporating LLMs, Vector Embeddings, and RAG • Upgraded Apps \(Apache Livy and Spark\) while maintaining compatibility, improving system reliability\. • Developed Helm charts and RBACs increasing efficiency and security for OpenShift • Created Kyverno policies for preemption and optimizing resource for GPU environments\. • Enhanced Keycloak based user authentication \(OIDC, SAML\), enhancing security\. • Engineered Spark images with NVIDIA RAPIDS and Whylogs accelerating Spark workloads\. • Tuned data pipelines with GPU Direct Storage, boosting stability\. • Investigated dynamic PV/PVC solutions, ensuring compatibility, reducing deployment errors\. • Enhanced Spark security with audit logs, reducing vulnerabilities by resolving CVEs and boosting compliance\. • Consolidated ML pipeline with Superset, Kubeflow, Mlflow, Spark, Airflow, Grafana, EzPresto, Minio S3 • Restructured and maintained a comprehensive suite of Spark examples for customer POCs accelerating client onboarding\.

Summer Intern at FORMCEPT, Jun 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Analyzed lead acid battery data resulting in a comprehensive dataset that improved battery life predictions by 40%\. • Leveraged PySpark to process and analyze datasets, accelerating data processing and increasing data throughput\. • Successfully implemented Kalman Filter and LSTM\-RNN algorithms to calculate SoH and SoC for batteries\.

PRISM Research Intern at Samsung R&D Institute India, May 2021 \- Nov 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Awarded with Certificate of Excellence • Engineered an algorithm for optimal Multi\-access Edge Computing server placement, reducing network latency\. • Upgraded task scheduling system based increasing resource utilization\. • Optimized Quality of Service management in MEC networks, resulting in a decrease in service interruptions\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, B\. M\. S\. College of Engineering

Delhi Public School \- India

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