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title: "Ved Prakash - Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Ved Prakash on Tal

## Headline

Principal Software Engineer \- AI/ML

## About

ML \+ Backend Engineer, built coding agents and context engine using enterprise data ie\. internal repos, docs, worked across domains like ML, AI, data engeering and backend services

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

hugging face

ollama

## Work experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Atlassian, Aug 2022 \- Present · 4 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, AI/ML Engineer executing e2e across ML, AI, data and backend \- Built, evaluated and rolled out context engine MCP using FastMCP\+FastAPI across Atlassian repos to reduce tokens, latency and imptove accuracy by replacing inefficient tool calling trajectories across large monorepos in Atlassian, empowers \~10 engineer team as foundational layer without worrying about pieces like auth, feature gating, analtics and evaluation and agents\-repo integration\. \- Implemented document ingestion\-retrieval\-evaluation RAG pipeline to write compliant code across Atlassian products and rolled out as one of the context MCP tool \- Wrote and maintain latency optimized inference services for text/code embedding, reranking models as part of context infra services, comes from deep platform/infra experience from pre\-LLMs era\. \- Built mcp bench to evaluate & iterate context mcp across agents like codex/claude code/cursor and rovodev\(internal\) Coding Agent \(Codelassian later packaged as RovodevIDE\) \- Built inline code completion context evaluation and integrated with VSCode & IntelliJ IDE agents \- Built low latency, cost optimized hybrid code completion model inference using vLLM & llama\.cpp \- HuggingFace model deployments to AWS EC2 & Sagemaker for various embedding use cases\. \- Owned backend to Integrate streaming llm apis and RAG pipeline for semantic code search\. Predictive Test Selection at Scale \( 20K weekly builds\) \- Trained SVD\+XGBoost models and deployed with FastAPI to skip tests in CI branch builds to reduce build time and infra cost \- Built MLOPs, CI\-CD automations using bitbucket pipelines \- Trained classical ML models like XGBoost using SKLearn Data residency for OpsGenie/JSM Multi\-region data migration service moving 5 million DynamoDB records in 30 minutes\. Designed and implemented event\-driven architecture using Kotlin/SpringBoot micro\-services and AWS SNS, SQS, Kinesis & Lambda ensuring application consistent migration across multi\-region DynamoDB and ElasticSearch\.

Member of Technical Staff IV at NetApp Public Cloud Services, Jan 2021 \- Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Implemented reserved capacity offering of Azure NetApp Files, and customer managed encryption key for NetApp Volume Service in GCP, while working on multi\-tenant storage\+network control plane orchestration backed by NetApp's proprietary OS ONTAP on data plane\. Tech Stack: Golang, C\#, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, MariaDB, Azure, GCP, AWS, Docker

Data Scientist II at Microsoft, Oct 2015 \- Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos, \- Wrote big data pipeline which processed 100s of TBs of data to show entity pane \(or its attribute\) among millions of knowledge base entities with 2 more members\. Implemented the streaming pipeline to propagate upstream fact changes to Bing under 1s\. The batch data pipeline include web scale knowledge graph pruning & transformation, data mining, pattern extraction, writing freshness & relevance rankers, entity intent & sub intent classifiers, feature modeling to rank knowledge entities against a query on Bing\. \- Implemented video analytics and transcripts migration from Teams to Microsoft Stream

Member Technical Staff at Oracle, Jun 2013 \- May 2015 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Oracle RDBMS \- Worked with backup & recovery team \(RMAN\) of Oracle database, first hand experience of database internals, backups, replication for a RDBMS\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Science, National institute of technology Calicut

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