Aswath Manoharan

Seasoned hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise and multiple years of academic and industry experience in the four pillars of modern-day AI-powered and data-intensive applications and in delivering them into production: - Algorithms and Science: Generative AI, LLMs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Big Data, Search and Recommendations, Personalization. - Scalable Engineering: Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Scalable Architectures, Performance, High Throughput Services, Data Platforms and Pipelines, Search Engines, SQL and NoSQL Databases, Vector Databases, RAG pipelines. - Product Design: Keen eye on UI design and workflows with an emphasis on the harmonious blending of multiple input modalities (eg: using text input along with voice and a visual interface) in AI-powered and data-driven applications. - Human Computing: Practical experience in crowdsourcing and leveraging human intelligence in collecting training data at scale for building AI models and using human expertise in complementing algorithms and models in production. Other Specialties: - Leadership: Building great teams, hiring talent (was recognized as a “bar raiser”), mentoring managers, engineers, architects, data scientists and fostering a culture of innovation and productivity among them. - Engineering Processes: Experienced in instituting processes from the ground-up for build, deploy, continuous integration, experimentation and all aspects of testing including the often gnarly task of testing AI and data-intensive applications. - Excellent oral and written communication skills: Have authored multiple papers and patents. Have delivered highly regarded talks, seminars and presentations (have coached others as well). I’m also a published novelist: https://www.amazon.com/School-Athens-Aswath-Ma