Himansh Mudigonda

Himansh Mudigonda

AI Engineer @ Ron Turley Associates, Inc.

2x Founding Engineer · Nature Journal Author · Building ML systems & AI infrastructure from 0 to 1.

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4+
Years engineering
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Papers published
26+
Projects shipped
6
Companies

Engineering Pulse

github
59 repos · 50 stars · 38 followers

9,659 contributions across 326 active days in the last year. Current streak 91 days, longest streak 91 days.

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Research Impact

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h-index 3 · i10-index 2
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2023
2024
2025
2026
3
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41
citations

Toolkit

78 tools · 6 categories

Languages · Tools

9

What I write production code in, and the tooling around it.

PythonRustJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLBashGitDockerKubernetes

AI · Machine Learning

14

Frameworks for training, optimizing, and deploying models.

PyTorchTensorFlowKerasHuggingFaceTransformersONNXOpenCVscikit-learnNumPyPandasComputer VisionDistributed TrainingLiteLLMSemantic Caching

LLMs · Agentic Systems

11

Stack for orchestrating language models and autonomous agents.

LangChainLangGraphCrewAIA2ARAG ArchitecturePrompt EngineeringFine-TuningAgentic AIMCPInference GatewaysMulti-Provider Routing

Backend · Orchestration

13

Async, streaming, and distributed runtime building blocks.

FastAPIFlaskgRPCKafkaAirflowPydanticCeleryRabbitMQWebSocketsNode.jsNest.jsAsynchronous ProgrammingGraphQL

Cloud · Infrastructure

15

Where workloads run and how the infra is reproduced.

AWSCDKLambdaSageMakerKinesisS3ElastiCacheSQSSNSAzureTerraformGCPVertex AIBigQueryCloud Functions

Databases · MLOps

16

State, search, observability, and the model lifecycle.

MySQLPostgreSQLDynamoDBMongoDBRedisElasticsearchPineconeVectorDBRDSMLflowCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDistributed TracingOpenTelemetryPerformance Benchmarking

Experience

6 roles · 2021–present · founding hire ×2

AI Engineer

Apr 2026 – Present·now
  • AI team, 1st hire — more like the 'special projects group'.

  • Innovation team, 5th hire.

  • Building FleetHQ and more, for now.

JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsNest.jsLangGraphCrewAIRabbitMQRedisDockerSystem Design

Founding Machine Learning & Backend Engineer

VelocitiPM LLC·Phoenix, AZ, USA
Jun 2025 – Apr 2026
  • Architected a 30-agent AI orchestration engine (LangGraph, CrewAI) on AWS AppRunner, automating 80% of PM workflows and increasing engineering throughput 4×.

  • Engineered an event-driven, async pipeline using AWS Kinesis, SNS, and Lambda, reducing P95 latency by 85% and ensuring 99.98% message delivery reliability.

  • Built a production-grade MLOps platform with SageMaker Pipelines and MLflow, automating retraining gates and boosting release cadence 8×.

  • Implemented a robust observability suite (CloudWatch, X-Ray) that cut critical incident resolution time from 2 hours to ~10 minutes via distributed tracing.

  • Designed a Redis-based memory layer for agentic state persistence, slashing inter-agent latency by 60% and supporting 2.5× higher concurrent user throughput.

PythonGoC++LangGraphCrewAIFastAPIKafkaLambdaKinesisSQSRedisMLOps

Founding AI Engineer

TimelyHero, Dimes Inc.·Remote - Tokyo, Japan
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025
  • Spearheaded the migration of a legacy monolith to a Java/Flask/gRPC microservice architecture on AKS, scaling to support 100,000+ concurrent WebSocket sessions.

  • Designed and deployed Airflow-orchestrated RAG pipelines (Pinecone, OpenAI, MongoDB), reducing data staleness from 48 hours to 30 minutes and driving $250K+ in new enterprise contracts.

  • Standardized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and Kubernetes, reducing deployment downtime by 35% and quadrupling the team's release velocity.

  • Optimized high-throughput ingestion pipelines with Kafka back-pressure handling, stabilizing throughput at 5,000 msgs/sec under peak loads of 1M+ events/hour.

  • Implemented a comprehensive monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana) that improved proactive incident detection by 70%, ensuring high availability.

JavaFlaskKafkaAirflowRAGPineconeMongoDBTerraformKubernetesAzureSystem Design

Machine Learning Intern

Endimension Inc.·Remote - Tempe, AZ, USA
Apr 2024 – Aug 2024
  • Trained and optimized large-scale vision models (TensorFlow, Keras) on 8TB of medical imaging data, improving diagnostic mAP by 13% and IoU by 17%.

  • Deployed ONNX-quantized inference endpoints on SageMaker, reducing P95 latency by 40% with negligible AUC drift (<0.5%) for real-time diagnostics.

  • Leveraged SageMaker Spot Instances and distributed training strategies to reduce GPU training costs by 25% while accelerating iteration cycles by 1.8×.

  • Architected a serverless inference pipeline using AWS Kinesis and Lambda, ensuring 24/7 fault tolerance and scalable processing for high-volume image streams.

  • Configured a robust model monitoring stack (MLflow, Prometheus) to track drift and performance, reducing debugging time for production models by 60%.

TensorFlowKerasComputer VisionQuantizationONNXSageMakerCUDAKinesisGlueMLflow

Graduate Research Assistant

JLiang Lab, Arizona State University·Tempe, AZ, USA
Sep 2023 – May 2024
  • Developed state-of-the-art multi-modal CV models (Swin Transformer, DINOv2) on SageMaker GPU clusters, achieving a 24% increase in rare-disease recall.

  • Implemented Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) training on Amazon EKS (8× A100s), reducing model training time by 3.2× and cutting cloud compute costs by 40%.

  • Engineered a multi-node GPU job scheduler using Slurm and EC2 Batch, automating provisioning and boosting cluster utilization by 35% across shared workloads.

  • Built distributed data pipelines with AWS Glue and S3 to ingest and preprocess 8TB+ of multimodal medical datasets, improving data throughput by 2.6×.

  • Designed reproducible experiment tracking workflows with SageMaker Experiments and MLflow, reducing hyperparameter tuning time by 45% and ensuring 100% reproducibility.

PyTorchJAXComputer VisionDistributed Training (FSDP)SlurmEKSGlueS3SageMakerMLflow

Machine Learning Researcher

SRM Advanced Electronics Laboratory·Amaravathi, AP, India
Dec 2021 – Jul 2023
  • Developed a distributed kernel regression pipeline on Apache Spark (Java + MLlib), achieving a clinical-grade MARD of 8.86% for non-invasive glucose monitoring.

  • Engineered a real-time IoT streaming system using AWS Greengrass and IoT Core, enabling ultra-low latency ingestion (<200ms) for 2,000+ daily sensor readings.

  • Designed production-grade ETL and data quality workflows with Spark SQL, ensuring 95%+ signal integrity across distributed edge devices.

  • Optimized cloud-to-edge messaging protocols via MQTT, ensuring reliable data transmission and reducing packet loss by 15% in unstable network environments.

  • Co-authored and published this novel research in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), a Q1 journal, validating the system's clinical accuracy and architectural robustness.

Apache SparkSQLJavaGreengrassIoT CoreMQTTRegression ModelingETLResearch

Education

2 degrees · MS in AI/ML & B.Tech in CS
Arizona State University
Arizona State University

Master of Science in Computer Science (AI/ML)

Aug 2023 – May 2025·Tempe, AZ, USA
Coursework 8+
Digital Image ProcessingImage Analytics and InformaticsStatistical Machine LearningOperationalizing Deep LearningCloud ComputingData-Intensive Distributed Systems for Machine LearningAdvanced Operating SystemsSocial Media Mining
Activities & Leadership 5+
SoDA: Software Developers AssociationACM Student ChapterLinux Users GroupThe AI Society at ASUHindu YUVA
SRM University
SRM University

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering

Jun 2019 – Jun 2023·Amaravathi, AP, India
Coursework 14+
DSA in COOPs in JavaDatabase Management SystemsComputer Organization and ArchitectureIntroduction to Quantum ComputationsOperating SystemsData Warehousing and Data MiningComputer NetworksData ScienceSoftware EngineeringManaging Innovation and StartupsCloud ComputingBig Data AnalyticsMachine Learning
Activities & Leadership 5+
Founder @ Inventors VillageFounder @ Research ClanBoard Member @SRM Student CouncilBoard Member @ SRM Entrepreneurship CellMember @ GDSC

Projects

26+ shipped · 2024–2026 · 140+ distinct technologies

Production systems, research code, and shipped experiments — click any row for the full case study.

2026

8 projects · more on GitHub
Chanakya: Multi-Agent LLM Portfolio & Wealth Research Platform
v2
A private research platform for a real, personally-traded dual-market (US + India) portfolio — 17 specialized agents (news, sentiment, technicals, fundamentals, macro, a Bull/Bear/Judge debate, forecasting, risk, weekly allocation, and more) reasoning across everything at once, with a full personal-finance layer underneath: a double-entry ledger, tax-lot accounting, and net-worth tracking. Advisory only, by design — there is no broker connection or execution path of any kind.
Python 3.12FastAPISQLAlchemy 2 (async)

Protocol Battle Arena: High-Performance Benchmarking Suite
Protocol Battle Arena: High-Performance Benchmarking Suite
A sophisticated engineering lab for benchmarking modern web protocols. Features automated server orchestration, live resource tracking, and deep performance analytics for REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and streaming protocols.
Python 3.12FastAPIgRPC

Zerobrew: Open Source Rust Systems Contribution
Zerobrew: Open Source Rust Systems Contribution
Implemented core Multi-Formula Installation for a high-performance Homebrew alternative in Rust. Optimized a sequential O(N) process into a parallelized batch operation.
RustCargoCLI

HimmiRouter: Enterprise LLM Gateway & Workbench
HimmiRouter: Enterprise LLM Gateway & Workbench
A production-ready LLM Inference Gateway and "Obsidian" themed AI Workbench. Features a state-machine router, atomic credit-based billing, and real-time distributed tracing for 80+ state-of-the-art models.
Python 3.12FastAPILangGraph

Voqora: Listen to the Text You Are Already Reading
Voqora: Listen to the Text You Are Already Reading
A native Mac app that reads selected text aloud and turns long documents into audiobooks you can follow line by line. Speech runs locally on Apple silicon, with no account and no cloud dependency for the core feature. Now in early release: feedback, issues, and pull requests are welcome.
SwiftSwiftUIAppKit

Broski: Deterministic Task Runner for Polyglot Projects
A drop-in task runner written in Rust, built to feel like Just but actually explain itself — an --explain flag that tells you exactly why a task reran, and a live terminal dashboard for watching a build graph run.
RustCLIDAG / Graph Execution

SuperZen: High-Performance Digital Wellness Guardian for macOS
SuperZen: High-Performance Digital Wellness Guardian for macOS
A native macOS menu-bar app that looks after your eyes automatically — it enforces the 20-20-20 rule through reminders designed to be easy to notice and hard to accidentally skip, with every countdown and nudge driven off one 1Hz heartbeat instead of a pile of separate timers that can drift out of sync.
SwiftSwiftUIAppKit

ytdld: Mission Control for Music & Video Downloads
ytdld: Mission Control for Music & Video Downloads
An interactive terminal app for downloading YouTube as MP3, MP4, or FLAC — paste your links, flip a few switches, and watch every track download in parallel without ever leaving the terminal.
Python 3.11+Textual TUIyt-dlp

2025

8 projects · more on GitHub
IngestIQ: Enterprise Multi-Tenant RAG Platform
IngestIQ: Enterprise Multi-Tenant RAG Platform
A high-throughput, event-driven Enterprise RAG Platform architected on FastAPI and Airflow, delivering SOC2-ready data isolation, millisecond-latency ingestion, and real-time semantic search for multi-tenant SaaS applications.
FastAPIApache Airflow (Kubernetes Executor)RabbitMQ

Agentum-Framework
Agentum-Framework
An open-source, distributed framework for orchestrating production-ready, multi-modal AI agents with self-healing capabilities and complex, stateful workflows.
PythonAgentic AILangGraph

CollabWrite
CollabWrite
A real-time, AI-augmented collaborative editor featuring conflict-free synchronization and context-aware writing assistance.
YjsWebSocketsFastAPI

FraudDetectX
FraudDetectX
A real-time fraud detection engine leveraging In-Database Machine Learning and Graph Neural Networks for high-throughput transaction scoring.
PySparkPostgresSQL/MLEvaDB

Doppelgangerify
Doppelgangerify
A personalized Generative AI pipeline that fine-tunes state-of-the-art diffusion models (FLUX.1) using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to create hyper-realistic user avatars.
LoRAFLUX.1PyTorch

Gemma-3 Reasoning Training with GRPO
Gemma-3 Reasoning Training with GRPO
Fine-tuned the Gemma-3 model using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to significantly enhance its mathematical reasoning and logic capabilities.
GRPOGemma-3PyTorch

SonicSherlock
SonicSherlock
A high-performance audio recognition engine utilizing robust acoustic fingerprinting and efficient database indexing to identify songs from noisy snippets.
DSPAudio FingerprintingPostgreSQL

Beast Watch
Beast Watch
A real-time wildlife safety system combining Edge Object Detection (YOLO) and Multimodal LLMs to identify dangerous animals and provide immediate survival protocols.
Computer VisionEdge AIYOLOv8

2024

5 projects · more on GitHub
ScripBuddy: AI Stock Analysis & Trading Assistant
A stock-analysis and trading-assistance platform that fuses technical indicators, news sentiment, and an LLM chat interface into a single decision-support dashboard.
PythonStreamlitOllama LLM

Ensemble Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs
Ensemble Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs
A framework for Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs using Deep Ensembles and LoRA to detect hallucinations and improve reliability.
Bayesian Deep LearningUncertainty QuantificationLoRA

MastoGraph - Mastodon
MastoGraph - Mastodon
A social intelligence platform for the Fediverse, combining Graph Algorithms and LLM-based NLP to map influence and detect toxicity at scale.
Graph Neural NetworksNLPSocial Network Analysis

FoR Audio: Fake or Real Speech Detection
FoR Audio: Fake or Real Speech Detection
A forensic audio analysis system utilizing RawNet and Self-Supervised Learning to detect deepfake speech with high precision.
Audio ForensicsDeep LearningRawNet

OpenForensics-DeepFake
OpenForensics-DeepFake
A state-of-the-art deepfake video detector leveraging Swin Transformers and temporal consistency analysis, achieving 98.59% accuracy.
Computer VisionVideo ForensicsSwin Transformer

Pre 2023

5 projects · more on GitHub
Classification & Localization Benchmarker
Classification & Localization Benchmarker
An extensible MLOps framework for automated benchmarking and hyperparameter optimization of vision models across diverse datasets.
MLOpsComputer VisionPyTorch

Otsu-Thresholding
Otsu-Thresholding
A highly optimized, vectorized implementation of Otsu's Thresholding algorithm for automatic, unsupervised image segmentation.
Computer VisionImage SegmentationAlgorithm Design

NeuroLearn
NeuroLearn
A pioneering Neuro-AI research initiative decoding cognitive states from EEG signals using Multi-Modal Deep Learning to personalize education.
Neuro-AIBCIEEG Processing

PopOS! Shell & Android AOSP ROM Development
PopOS! Shell & Android AOSP ROM Development
Contributions to core operating system components, including the PopOS! window manager and custom Android Kernel compilations for extended device support.
OS DevelopmentLinux KernelAndroid AOSP

sCrAPTCHA & Archcraft Linux Contributions
sCrAPTCHA & Archcraft Linux Contributions
Foundational work in Web Security and Linux System Customization, creating a custom CAPTCHA generator and enhancing the Archcraft distribution.
CybersecurityPythonLinux Customization

Blog

7 posts · deep dives into the projects I build — architecture, tradeoffs, and the bugs that taught me something

Recent posts — full archive on the blog index.

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Honors

4 recognitions · scholarships, fellowships, awards

Scholarships & Fellowships

Earned support for advanced study and research.
3

Aug 2024↓ Aug 2025
Herbold ASU Graduate Scholarship
Herbold Foundation: Bob Herbold, Ex-COO of Microsoft
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Jul 2023↓ Jul 2024
ASU Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Jun 2019↓ Jun 2023
SRM Merit Scholarship
School of Engineering, Arts and Sciences
SRM University, AP, India

Awards

Distinctions earned across competitions, hackathons, and reviews.
1

Apr 2023
Gold Medalist: Research Day
School of Engineering, Arts and Sciences
SRM University, AP, India

Certifications

15 certifications · 4 tracks · continuous learning

AI & Machine Learning Foundations

4+

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
Stanford University·Coursera·Aug 2024
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI·Coursera·Aug 2024
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, and Optimization
DeepLearning.AI·Coursera·Aug 2024
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
DeepLearning.AI·Coursera·Sep 2024

Industry Specializations & MLOps

4+

Google AI Essentials
Google·Coursera·Aug 2024
Generative AI for Everyone
DeepLearning.AI·Coursera·Oct 2024
MLOps Essentials: Model Development and Integration
LinkedIn Learning·LinkedIn·Feb 2025
MLOps Essentials: Monitoring Model Drift and Bias
LinkedIn Learning·LinkedIn·Feb 2025

Professional Development

4+

AI Model Development
ASU School of Arts, Media and Engineering·Arizona State University·Feb 2025
Cross Functional Collaboration
StarWeaver Group·Coursera·Feb 2025
Accelerate Your Learning with ChatGPT
Deep Teaching Solutions·Coursera·Oct 2024
Data or Specimens Only Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Affiliates·CITI Program·Sep 2023

Foundational Skills & Legacy

3+

AI Foundations: Machine Learning
LinkedIn Learning·LinkedIn·Aug 2024
Getting Started with Enterprise - grade AI
IBM·IBM·Jul 2021
Getting Started with Cloud for the Enterprise
IBM·IBM·Jul 2021

Publications

3 peer-reviewed papers · 1 Q1 Nature contribution
FEATUREDNature Portfolio · Q1·April 2024

Augmenting authenticity for non-invasive in vivo detection of random blood glucose with photoacoustic spectroscopy using Kernel-based ridge regression

P. N. S. B. S. V. Prasad V, Ali Hussain Syed, Mudigonda Himansh, Biswabandhu Jana, Pranab Mandal & Pradyut Kumar Sanki


The first peer-reviewed validation of this kernel-based method for non-invasive glucose monitoring.

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Values

6 principles · the compass that orders the work

Compass, not decoration — these shape the work I take, the standards I hold, and the people I want around me.

01

Hungry

I chase problems over job titles. From a Nature publication at 20 to shipping 25+ systems solo — I move fast because standing still feels like falling behind.

02

Humble

I've been the founding engineer, the intern, and the student — in the same year. Every role taught me something the last one couldn't.

03

Sharp

I think in systems. I ask why the architecture needs something, who it serves, and what breaks when it scales.

04

Ownership

When I take something on, it gets done. No handholding. I've shipped production systems solo that most teams would staff 4 engineers for.

05

Velocity

Speed is a skill. I go from zero to production-grade fast by building the right thing first and iterating from an MVP.

06

Breadth with Depth

I architect distributed systems in the morning and fine-tune LLMs in the afternoon. I go deep enough in each domain to make real decisions.

— Himansh Mudigonda