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Varun Ravi Swaminathan

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and MLOps

Device ThreadUniversity at Buffalo5 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks Remote

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Founding-engineer-style full-stack and AI product builder who has shipped production conversational agents in hospitality and earlier helped build an AI sports analytics startup through acquisition. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript frontend ownership, FastAPI backend design, and sophisticated LLM/RAG/agent systems with strong production monitoring and clear business impact.

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Key Strengths

  • end-to-end full-stack ownership of real-time operational products
  • production LLM/agent architecture across voice and text
  • strong TypeScript and React implementation with typed real-time event systems
  • backend API and WebSocket design with FastAPI
  • deep RAG and retrieval grounding expertise
  • multi-agent orchestration and error isolation design
  • production AI monitoring and regression detection
  • root-cause debugging of model and embedding regressions
  • human-in-the-loop automation judgment for risk-sensitive workflows
  • startup execution in ambiguous founding-engineer environments
  • measurable operational impact: 40% fewer staff overrides
  • measurable operational impact: escalations 3x faster
  • measurable AI impact: 60-75% reduction in human intervention
  • sub-200ms P99 latency for real-time AI experiences
  • document workflow improvement: 75% faster processing and 15-20% better extraction accuracy
  • scaled sports video pipeline to 10,000+ hours/month on AWS
  • contributed to startup growth through acquisition-stage product building

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Experience

Machine Learning EngineerDevice Thread · Dec 2023 – Present
Research EngineerUniversity at Buffalo · Aug 2022 – Dec 2023
Founding ML EngineerKinesis Track · Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

Education

University at Buffalomaster, Artificial Intelligence (2023)
SRM Universitybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2022)

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

Gesture RecognitionComputer VisionConvolutional Neural NetworksTransfer Learning

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Varun Ravi SwaminathanMid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and MLOps