Vinayak Hegde
AI / ML
Bio
Vinayak Hegde is a Principal AI advocate focussing on Generative AI and Machine Learning. Earlier at Microsoft, I worked in startups team helping startups bring their AI products to market and scale them. I use my experience in this field to educate and mentor startups, students and enterprises to adopt latest AI technoligies and build scalable products.
Overall, I have more than 20 years of experience in product development & software architecture. My areas of expertise are IoT (and embedded systems), Large scale networks (and internet protocols) and large scale data processing and management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I have worked both as a technical contributor (IC roles) and also leadership leading large teams across continents that developed complex software products in Ad-tech, developer tools, Content delivery networks, Analytics, IoT, e-commerce and logistics.
Outside of work, I like to read science fiction, graphic novels, economics and history books, photograph (landscape, people and architecture), listen to eclectic music and travel the world.
Skills
- AI / ML
- Data Science
- Cloud Architecture / Large scale data / Large scale networks
- Python / Java / C & C++
- Postgres