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Hire Ajay B. - MLOps Engineer

Mlops Engineer

14+ years
san francisco, california, united states
Nvidia

About ajay

Results-driven DevOps and ML Infrastructure Engineer with deep experience automating and streamlining complex workflows across AI/ML systems and high-performance hardware platforms like Ryzen AI NPU. Proven success in building and scaling CI/CD pipelines, managing distributed model training and inference, and supporting AI compilers, quantizers, and firmware integration across embedded and cloud environments. Skilled in designing robust infrastructure for ML model validation, automating builds for drivers and ML toolchains, and developing internal tools to improve reliability and efficiency of AI deployments. Passionate about accelerating AI system development through scalable tooling, reproducible builds, and hardware-aware automation. Skills: Infra & DevOps Tools: Git, Perforce, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Nginx, AWS, GCP, Github Actions AI/ML Ecosystem: PyTorch, vLLM, HuggingFace Transformers, MLFlow, Kubeflow, Ray Build & Release: Make, Gradle, Maven, CI/CD for ML Compilers, Firmware, Drivers Programming: Python (preferred), C#, C | Scripting: Bash, Groovy, Batch Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Chroma (Vector DB), HBase, HDFS Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus | OS: Linux, Windows Specialties: Model Quantization, Distributed Inference/training, Network Programming (TCP/IP)

Key Skills

airflowamazon web servicesansibleapache mesosbashbitbucketcc++cadence virtuosocomputer visionconvolutional neural networksdeep learningdevopsdistributed systemsdjango+52 more

Experience

Mlops Engineer

Current

Nvidia

Megatron-LM and NeMo Framework

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Amd

* ML Infrastructure and DevOps AMD MI GPU/ROCm * Distributed training and inference Performance and validation engineer specializing in large-scale distributed GPU training and inference on AMD Instinct MI GPUs with the ROCm software stack. Experienced in diagnosing performance regressions, automating cluster-wide benchmarking across training and inference workloads, and enabling customers to deploy and validate multi-node GPU clusters at scale. Ryzen AI NPU * Automate distributed training jobs on AMD GPUs and collect metrics. * Built automation of ML model testing and infrastructure pipelines supporting cutting-edge AI models (CNNs, LLMs, BERT, Diffusion) on AMD Ryzen AI. * Automated the build and CI model evaluation lifecycle for ML environments * quantizers, optimizers, compilers, and containerized (Docker) ML environments using Kubernetes, leading to faster, more stable development and releases.

Software Engineer

Xilinx

* Setup of continuous integration for ML accelerator firmware and drivers, including Vitis AI, ensuring rapid and reliable software delivery. * Architected and implemented a robust build pipeline using Docker, Jenkins, Make, and Bash scripts, streamlining the development process and reducing build times. * Developed, tested, and deployed an internal build/test tool using Python and Django, while swiftly addressing any issues to maintain tool reliability. * Scripted the automation of Docker image builds and container deployments for the build/test tool, including managing Dockerfiles for PetaLinux environments. * Implemented CI/CD processes using Jenkins, along with custom Python and Bash scripts, to automate builds, validate code changes, and deploy new artifacts. * Collaborated closely with development and QA teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality builds and releases, consistently meeting project deadlines. * Converted an existing make build system to Gradle, establishing a modern CI/CD pipeline to validate incoming changes, deploy artifacts, and run comprehensive tests. * Setup infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Education

San José State University

Master Of Science

Siddharth Institute Of Engg And Technology, Jntu Anantapur,india

Bachelors

Jntu Anantapur

Bachelors

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ajay specializes in MLOps Engineer, with expertise in airflow, amazon web services, ansible, apache mesos, bash.

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ajay is based in san francisco, california, united states.

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ajay has 14+ years of professional experience.

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