Venkatakumar Puvvada

About Venkatakumar Puvvada

Innovative, results-driven IT leader with 14+ years of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade solutions across Java, IoT, real-time streaming, data engineering and AI/ML. Transitioned into advanced AI roles ~7 years ago with hands-on expertise in deep learning, LLMs, MLOps and full‑stack AI deployments. Proven at designing production-grade LLMOps and agentic AI systems that deliver measurable business impact.Highlights- Architected secure LLM fine-tuning and serving platforms (Databricks, MLflow, Delta Lake, Seldon) and led private-hosting of LLMs for domain-specific use cases- Built AIHub — a reusable MLOps lifecycle platform adopted by 10+ teams to accelerate experimentation and productionization- Delivered agentic AI solutions for identity management and document automation; created telemetry anomaly detection that reduced production failures by 30%- Scaled cloud-native systems (Ignite IoT platform) to 2M+ connected vehicles using microservices, Kafka/MQTT and AWS services.Core competencies- LLMs, RAG, Transformers, Generative AI- Deep Learning (CNNs, Transformers) & model tuning- MLOps & deployment (Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, Seldon, MLflow, SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock,Aws Nova)- Data engineering & streaming analytics (Spark, Delta Lake)- Cloud-native architecture (AWS: EKS, EMR, S3)- Microservices, IoT, real-time systems, CI/CD automation -Open to architect and AI platform roles that require building secure, scalable AI systems and operationalizing LLM intelligence. Contact via LinkedIn message or email for collaboration -or leadership opportunities.

Experience

1. Architect

   HARMAN International

   Sep 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2005 — 2009