Adithya S Kolavi

AI Researcher, Building Generative AI solutions at Scale

About

Building AI that actually works! Currently deep into Vision-Language Models and Agentic Systems, with hands-on experience taking AI projects from wild ideas to real products. Love tinkering with model fine-tuning and cloud deployments. Big open-source enthusiast - you'll find me contributing to projects that make AI more accessible to everyone.

Work Experience

CognitiveLab
On Site

January 2023 - present

AI Researcher

Pioneered one of India's first Kannada bilingual Large Language Model - Ambari-7b. Developed Cognitune, an enterprise-grade LLMops platform, reducing time to production by 60%.

TurboML
Remote

June 2023 - present

AI Developer

Contributed to the development of LLMOps platform, focusing on AI system observability and evaluation. Implemented advanced tracing, monitoring, and analytics solutions to gain insights into large-scale AI systems, which enhanced model transparency and performance.

NeoHumans
Remote

June 2023 - present

AI Researcher

Spearheaded the fine-tuning of a Large Language Model (LLM) using a custom synthetic data generation pipeline for multilingual tasks. Successfully deployed the model in a scalable architecture, enabling robust performance across multiple languages and tasks.

Indian Institute of Science (IISC)
On Site

September 2023 - present

Research Intern

Conducting research on Multi-Modal adaptation of LLMs. Training Vision Language model for various use cases such as Video Understanding, Object Detection/Segmentation and Image QnA.

Mandelbulb Technologies
Remote

May 2023 - August 2023

Generative AI Developer

Engineered an end-to-end generative AI application, increasing user engagement by 30% and improving response time by 25%.

Enable Technologies
On Site

September 2022 - December 2022

Full Stack Developer

Developed the e-commerce platform enableupcycling.com, achieving a Lighthouse score of 90 in performance, accessibility, and SEO.

Skills

AI/ML/DL: PyTorch, Transformers, PEFT, Bitsandbytes, Diffusers, Hugging Face Ecosystem
Python Libraries: NLTK, Scapy, FastAPI, Flask, Django, OpenCV, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Pandas, Poetry, Langchain
Web Frameworks: React.js, Next.js, Express, Node.js, Vue.js, Bootstrap, Tailwind
Cloud: Azure, Azure Machine Learning, AWS, AWS SageMaker, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, E2E Cloud
Big Data: Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka
Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Redis, MySQL, Supabase, Pinecone, FAISS, Qdrant, ChromaDb
Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C/C++, SQL

Open Source

omniparse
5504

Ingest, parse, and optimize any data format ➡️ from documents to multimedia ➡️ for enhanced compatibility with GenAI frameworks

ingestion-api
ocr
omniparser

RAG-SaaS
88

⚡Ship RAG Solutions Quickly and effortlessly

ai-saas
arize-phoenix
llamaindex

VARAG
346

Vision-Augmented Retrieval and Generation (VARAG) - Vision first RAG Engine

colpali
multimodal-retrieval
rag

AI-Engineering.academy
162

Navigating the World of AI, One Step at a Time

fine-tuning
finetuning
finetuning-llms

indic_eval
32

A lightweight evaluation suite tailored specifically for assessing Indic LLMs across a diverse range of tasks

evaluation-framework
llm-evaluation
llms

Indic-llm
10

A open-source framework designed to adapt pre-trained Language Models (LLMs), such as Llama, Mistral, and Mixtral, to a wide array of domains and languages.

continual-pre-training
dpo
finetuning

Education

PES University

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science