Principal AI Architect @ Pinecone · prev. Sr. Applied AI Specialist @ AWS Data Labs · 14 years shipping production AI systems
I help enterprises take AI from demo to production — retrieval and vector search, RAG and agent architectures, MLOps, and rigorous model evaluation. 52+ enterprise engagements led across financial services, insurance, media, defense, and research.
🌐 Site & free AI consultations: vamshienabothala.com (update once live) ✍️ Writing on: vector search · agentic retrieval optimization · AI model evaluation 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vkenabothala
| Engagement | What happened |
|---|---|
| 🛰️ MIT Lincoln Lab (LADI) — disaster response CV | Human-in-the-loop imagery pipeline: 100K images triaged in 18 minutes instead of 42 days → AWS ML Blog |
| 🐋 Project CETI — decoding whale communication | Lead ML Architect (volunteer); presented at AWS re:Invent 2022 with founder David Gruber |
| 🎖️ RallyPoint — veteran job recommendations | Personalized job matching for the military community → AWS ML Blog |
| 📰 Thomson Reuters — content personalization | Subscription-plan personalization at global-publisher scale → AWS ML Blog |
| ⚙️ VMware — MLOps from scratch | End-to-end pipeline with GitLab + MWAA + SageMaker → AWS ML Blog |
| 🏦 Genworth — serverless ML | Fully serverless ML pipeline for a regulated insurer → AWS ML Blog |
🏆 1st place, Pinecone/AWS Generative AI Hackathon — real-time disaster imagery annotation & geospatial search 🎤 Keynote, US Navy AI/ML Annual Conference · AWS Senior Speaker certified
- Retrieval quality in practice — what actually moves the needle: chunking, embedding choice, metadata filtering, reranking
- Agentic retrieval — why decomposed sub-queries lose entity/time context, and architectures that fix it
- Honest evaluation — sealed benchmarks, pre-registered success criteria, and hallucination measurement for RAG and fine-tuned models
AWS ML Specialty · AWS Big Data Specialty · AWS Solutions Architect · CCA Spark & Hadoop Developer
💬 Working through a hard retrieval/RAG/agent problem? I offer free 20-minute consultations — booking link on my site.