Vinay Venkatesh

LinkedIn · Mountain View, CA

• •Cut deployment freshness lag for a production ML inference tier from 11 days to under 1 hour with an autonomous Java/Temporal release-certification pipeline, replacing a 5-step manual release process
• •Built end-to-end canary certification for a GPU-backed retrieval-and-ranking inference service, forking live production traffic onto H200 baseline-vs-test clusters
• •Drove a statistical validity fix in a partner team's canary platform, replacing per-request latency diffs with baseline-vs-test P95 distribution comparison — redefining pass/fail for every canary on the platform
• •Shipped changes across 8 repositories owned by 5+ teams, including a ~1,000-line proposal adding operation-scoped authorization grants to LinkedIn's service authorization platform

Wolfe, LLC · Pittsburgh, PA

• •Integrating AI workflows to improve content speed, personalization, and efficiency across teams
• •Building multimodal creative AI pipelines (OpenAI) for video, image, and copy generation
• •Prototyping agentic AI systems to automate creative production and project-management workflows
• •Contributing to fraud detection and security AI for transaction screening and compliance

Payactiv · Milpitas, CA

• •Developed 30+ RESTful APIs for an XMPP-based chat platform supporting 1M+ users
• •Designed PostgreSQL schemas reducing query latency by 15%
• •Wrote automated tests with xUnit and Postman, improving API reliability
• •Delivered QBR-ready features two weeks early within Agile/Scrum workflows

San Jose State University · San Jose, CA

• •Optimized ML pipeline linking 3D facial geometry and DNA, achieving 0.73 AUROC
• •Compressed 120K+ vertex meshes into 16-D embeddings using SpiralNet++
• •Improved verification accuracy by 18% using 41 biologically tested SNPs

GenerAI · Fargo, ND

• •Built web and mobile app using React Native and ASP.NET Core connecting 200+ creators with 50+ brands
• •Collaborated with COO and 3-person team to launch MVP within 8 weeks

B.S. in Statistics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence · Pittsburgh, PA

Startup School · San Francisco, CA