Abhishek Shivkumar
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAbhishek Shivkumar is a product-focused AI leader and Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 15+ years of experience turning cutting-edge ML research into customer-facing products across LLMs, agentic AI, computer vision, speech and NLP. He has led and scaled high-performance data science teams, shortening development cycles while delivering measurable business impact in regulated domains such as medical device safety. Hands-on throughout his career, he’s implemented production LLM systems (RAG, fine-tuning, smolagents/LlamaIndex/LangGraph), multimodal video Q&A, and large-scale CV and speech models for identity, pathology biomarkers, and fashion understanding. An inventor on 10+ granted patents and author of multiple papers and open-source tooling (e.g., clinical linguistic feature extractor BlaBla), he blends deep research literacy with pragmatic engineering. Based in the UK, he excels at cross-functional collaboration—translating ambiguous product needs into scalable architectures that balance safety, human-in-the-loop oversight, and agentic autonomy. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained focus on regulated, safety-critical applications where practical LLM governance and traceability are paramount.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (79)
python10
deep-learning10
audio10
nlp10
visual-question-answering10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
llm10
multimodal9
face-recognition9
facenet9
corenlp9
object-detection9
transformer9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
novoic/blabla
May 2020 - Sep 2023
Novoic's linguistic feature extraction library
Contributions:1 comment in 3 years 4 months
feature-extractionalzheimers-diseaseaphasiablablacomputational-linguistics
abhisheksgumadi/sentiment-analysis-word2vec
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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