Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman

About Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman

Self-driven and highly motivated professional with a passion for delivering top-tier AI/ML infrastructure, even in highly ambiguous environments. Skilled in executing 0-to-1 projects, producing generic and optimal solutions, and shipping high-quality, well-tested code. Excited to work in multidisciplinary environments and thrive in hybrid teams across different geographies and time zones. Eager to learn new domains and take broad ownership of team responsibilities, including building roadmaps, scoping, and task breakdowns.

Experience

1. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon

   Amazon

   Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Initiated and Co-invented Amazon’s first cross-model prompt translation and optimization framework (0 to 1 product) along with AI research scientists; Achieved rapid LLM benchmarking by cutting manual prompt adaptations time from 60 days to 3 days and improving catalog listing accuracy by 10% for millions of product listings in Amazon Catalog.( Paper accepted at AMLC 2025 )• Designed and deployed an iterative evaluation + prompt refinement pipeline from scratch; conducted ablation studies on prompt structures and optimization strategies to quantify effects on personalization and accuracy.• Co-developed benchmark datasets with AI research scientists to evaluate prompt translation, optimization, and personalization strategies, systematically measuring adaptation and correctness across foundation models.• Currently driving investigations into advanced optimization techniques (GRPO-lightweight RL, GEPA-Genetic Pareto) to further automate optimization

Education

• Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering

  2012 — 2016

• University of Florida

  Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

  2016 — 2018

Skills

• Amazon Dynamodb
• Amazon Redshift
• Machine Learning
• Data Visualization
• Web.py
• Photoshop
• Java
• Core Java
• Microsoft Office
• Javascript
• Fuzzy Logic
• Amazon Sqs
• Leadership and Influencing Skills
• Team Work
• Matlab
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Graph Theory
• Teamwork
• C++
• C
• Programming
• Innovation
• Networking
• Spring Framework
• Sql
• Linux
• Javascript Libraries
• Html