Aravind Anchala
Senior Software Engineer, AI Systems & ML Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area
Software engineer with 8+ years building the systems that turn models into reliable products: model-serving and inference workflows, agentic systems, evaluation loops, data pipelines, observability, authorization, and cost controls. My background is in software that has to work in production, across large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, applied optimization, and reliability engineering. I care as much about latency, cost, safety, and evaluation as I do about model quality, and I hold 5 U.S. patents in automated network optimization.
Experience
Software Engineer · MeeruAI
Feb 2025 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Building production software for an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform that automates complex business workflows with LLM-enabled agents, secure data access, observability, and full-stack product experiences.
- Build and ship LLM-enabled agentic workflows that automate complex enterprise processes, with structured task execution, controlled backend access, prompt guardrails, and orchestration patterns that improve reliability and operational safety.
- Design natural-language-to-structured-data workflows that translate user intent into governed data access, analytics, and business-process execution across frontend UX, backend APIs, and authorization.
- Harden production maturity with policy-driven authorization, observability, and debugging workflows, improving security, incident investigation, and platform maintainability.
- Contribute across the stack, from backend services and API integrations to data workflows, access control, and production readiness.
Senior Network Engineer · Samsung Electronics America
Apr 2022 - Jan 2025
Reston, VA
Owned production troubleshooting, reliability analysis, and data-driven optimization for large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on incident resolution, performance debugging, and cross-functional execution.
- Resolved 100+ Tier-3 production performance and reliability incidents, owning root-cause and failure-mode analysis and driving measurable gains in system stability.
- Built Python analysis pipelines over large operational and performance datasets for root-cause analysis, anomaly and trend detection, and optimization recommendations.
- Turned complex system behavior into actionable engineering insight with SQL, Tableau, and operational analytics, and supported live operational dashboards.
- Ran configuration audits to surface recurring failure patterns and reduce operational risk. This data-intensive troubleshooting maps directly to AI/ML platform reliability, model-serving observability, and AI SRE.
Network Engineer · DISH Network Technologies
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
Herndon, VA
Contributed to cloud-native platform architecture, automation, and performance analysis across a large-scale, virtualized and containerized distributed system.
- Helped design and evaluate a cloud-native, service-oriented platform on AWS with virtualized and containerized components, built for scalability and performance.
- Built Python, Bash, and SQL automation and data pipelines for operational reporting, model tuning, capacity analysis, and acceptance workflows, cutting repetitive manual work across design, deployment, and optimization.
- Developed automated optimization and predictive model-tuning algorithms. This cross-functional work led to 5 U.S. patents in automated network optimization and interference management.
- Worked across AWS, Linux, IP networking, and REST-API automation, building the platform, data-pipeline, and reliability foundations that carry directly into AI/ML infrastructure.
Engineering Intern, Python Programming · Caterpillar Inc.
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Chennai, India
Built Python-based numerical optimization workflows for experimental data fitting and algorithmic modeling.
- Developed a hybrid Nelder-Mead + Genetic Algorithm optimizer to fit experimental damping curves, reducing error by ~10 dB.
- Built an N-dimensional curve-fitting workflow for experimental data analysis and model optimization.
Selected projects
Staff-level AI systems portfolio · case studies
A six-project portfolio spanning the production AI/ML lifecycle: inference, training, agents, evaluation and data, trust and safety, and real-time ML. Descriptions are in progress and evolving.
LLM Inference Gateway · Inference & Reliability
In progressA multi-provider LLM gateway with a reliability control plane in front of it.
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Post-Training Orchestrator · Training & Post-Training
PlannedReproducible, gated distributed fine-tuning and post-training runs.
- Python
- PyTorch
- Ray
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- MLOps
Agentic RAG Copilot · Agents & Retrieval
PlannedA permission-aware agentic copilot that assists incident response.
- TypeScript
- Python
- RAG
- Agents
- Vector Search
- Observability
Eval & Data Flywheel · Evaluation & Data
PlannedClose the loop: evaluations and production signals feed a governed feature store.
- Python
- Feature Store
- Evals
- Ranking
- Data Platform
Trust & Safety Platform · Trust & Safety
PlannedAuditable, policy-driven moderation across text and images.
- Python
- Multimodal ML
- Safety
- Content Moderation
- Observability
Real-Time Risk Intelligence · Streaming & Real-Time
PlannedStreaming feature computation and scoring from edge to cloud.
- Rust
- Go
- Streaming
- Kafka
- Real-Time ML
- Kubernetes
Skills
AI / ML systems
- LLMOps
- MLOps
- RAG
- Agentic AI
- Model serving
- Model evaluation
- Real-time ML
Platform & infra
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- Linux
- Cloud-native systems
- Cloudflare
Backend & data
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- SQL
- REST APIs
- Distributed systems
- Data pipelines
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Reliability
- Observability
- AI SRE
- Incident response
- Performance analysis
- Cost engineering
Education
Brown University
Master's degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Bachelor's degree
Credentials & recognition
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Google IT Automation with Python
- VMware Cloud on AWS - Trained Professional
- Named inventor on 5 U.S. patents (automated optimization, interference management, predictive model tuning)
- Peer-reviewed publication (quantum-dot photodetectors)