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I'm a software engineer with about five years of hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications, and roughly two years specializing in AI/ML systems, including training and distillation of transformer models, and building autonomous AI agents. I'm passionate about AI tooling, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping with modern IDEs and AI-native developer workflows. I enjoy turning ideas into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.…I'm a software engineer with about five years of hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications, and roughly two years specializing in AI/ML systems, including training and distillation of transformer models, and building autonomous AI agents. I'm passionate about AI tooling, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping with modern IDEs and AI-native developer workflows. I enjoy turning ideas into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.

Karthik Vadlamudi

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, AI Developer, +2

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I'm a software engineer with about five years of hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications, and roughly two years specializing in AI/ML systems, including training and distillation of transformer models, and building autonomous AI agents. I'm passionate about AI tooling, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping with modern IDEs and AI-native developer workflows. I enjoy turning ideas into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.…I'm a software engineer with about five years of hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications, and roughly two years specializing in AI/ML systems, including training and distillation of transformer models, and building autonomous AI agents. I'm passionate about AI tooling, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping with modern IDEs and AI-native developer workflows. I enjoy turning ideas into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.

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I’m a software engineer with about five years of hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications, and roughly two years specializing in AI/ML systems, including training and distillation of transformer models, and building autonomous AI agents.

I’m passionate about AI tooling, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping with modern IDEs and AI-native developer workflows. I enjoy turning ideas into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Palantir

May 1, 2025 - Present

Architected and deployed custom Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain-specific document analysis; led distillation and fine-tuning of transformer models; integrated LLM-powered ranking, semantic search, and document summarization into Solr-based infrastructure; built end-to-end ML pipelines for data cleaning, normalization, tokenization, and training set generation; created evaluation frameworks (MMLU, BLEU) to track model performance; developed autonomous AI agents with tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning; collaborated on AI strategy and governance; migrated UI to modern stacks; implemented server-side logic using Java/Jakarta/J2EE and Node.js; used Spring Data JPA; worked with Oracle PL/SQL, Firebase, MySQL; integrated SonarQube; built Kafka-based streaming; used Swagger for API docs.

Software Developer at Ibotta

September 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025

Contributed to early-stage AI initiatives by building React-based UIs interfacing with AI services; prepared large-scale datasets; prototyped LLM-backed tools (contract summarization, entity extraction dashboards); improved UI engagement by 25%; enhanced API performance by 30%; implemented OAuth2/JWT; ORM with Hibernate and PostgreSQL; containerized with Docker; used Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming; AWS S3 and EC2 for hosting and storage.

Software Developer at HCL Tech

August 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023

Developed backend services with Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP and PL/SQL; built responsive UIs with React; implemented backends with Node.js, Spring Boot, Laravel, Express.js; worked with RabbitMQ for messaging; API Gateway with Spring Cloud Gateway; designed and optimized databases across MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Firebase; set up Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins CI/CD; worked with GCP, AWS, and Azure; version control with Git.