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Neethu Venkatesh

Neethu Venkatesh

Bangalore

Summary

Skilled Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience, specializing in executing development strategies via unique management and design styles. Known for tackling unforeseen hiccups in software creation with agility and tireless commitment. Creative innovator of novel approaches to time-worn problems, proficient at employing colleagues and resources to combat everything from minor bugs to catastrophic software failures. Awarded President's Award from Dell for my contribution to digitally transforming Dell's $10 Billion Inventory system. Proficient in providing technical leadership, team direction, and managing development and deployment processes. Strong expertise in large language models (LLMs) and Gen AI technologies, with a passion for staying ahead in the ever-evolving AI field.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

Dell Technologies
Bangalore
05.2017 - Current
  • Lead the GenAI pillar for modernization, focusing on integrating advanced AI capabilities into Dell’s Supply Chain
  • Digitally transformed a $10B inventory monolith to microservices and cloud platform
  • Led a team of 12+ software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions meeting business requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
  • Built a dynamic team of software engineers and developers, boosting overall success
  • Resolved technical issues in collaboration with project managers, developers, quality assurance, and customers
  • Estimated project requirements, planned milestones, and capacity planning
  • Collaborated with business partners from EMEA, APJ, and US regions for requirements and testing
  • Worked with solution and enterprise architects to design the inventory system
  • Contributed to the design and development of a single page order view for ease of inventory tracking
  • Worked with external vendor companies CTOs to evaluate their products and collaborated across domains to understand leaders' requirements and provided suggestions
  • Developed expertise in large language models (LLMs) over the past two years, utilizing models like Mixtral, Mistal, Llama 2b, Llama3b, Florence, Llava-Next, CogVLM, and CodeLlama for various use cases including dynamic SQL, dynamic visualization, data summarization, PDF data analysis, and vision to text analysis for advertisement rule compliance
  • Built RAG-ready data ingestors, used Langchain and agent frameworks like Crew AI, and deployed models on Kubernetes using Helm and CICD.
  • Used PGVector Database and used embedding models like BGE, BERT to embed the documents post chunking. Applied multilevel and hierarchical chunking for our use cases

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys
Bangalore
07.2013 - 09.2016
  • Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
  • Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.

Education

B-Tech, Biotechnology -

Prathyusha Institute of Technology – Anna University

Skills

  • Java Springboot
  • Microservices
  • MongoDB
  • Python
  • Cloud Services
  • Digital transformation
  • PCF
  • SQL
  • Kafka
  • RMQ
  • Large Language Models (LLMs): Mixtral, Mistal, Llama 2b, Llama3b, Florence, Llava-Next, CogVLM, CodeLlama
  • Vector DB: PG Vector
  • Embeddings: AllMini, BERT, BGE
  • RAG Ready Data Ingestors
  • Langchain Agent Frameworks: Crew AI Detectron2 Unstructured Nemo Guardrails
  • Kubernetes, Helm, CICD

Accomplishments

  • Received President's Award from Dell.
  • Completed one year training program for future diverse leaders called, Empowering Diverse Leaders from Dell.
  • Awarded People choice award in 2021.

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

Dell Technologies
05.2017 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys
07.2013 - 09.2016

B-Tech, Biotechnology -

Prathyusha Institute of Technology – Anna University
Neethu Venkatesh