Portfolio 2025

Theja KunuthuruAI Engineer and Program Leader

I curate and ship AI programs at the edge of GenAI, LLMOps, and enterprise readiness. From concept to launch, I ideate, lead teams, and translate research into managed deliveries for clients across the globe.

Available for senior AI engagements
Based in India • Open to remote-hybrid

Quick stats

Years shipping Tech9+
Programs owned17
Primary baseBengaluru, IN

Currently building

LLM adoption playbook for enterprises

Packaging workflows covering training datasets, evaluation harnesses, and AI governance to accelerate enterprise pilots.

Focus

Capabilities

AI Delivery Leadership

Active

Leading cross-border teams, PMO, and stakeholder rituals for AI initiatives across enterprise organizations.

  • GenAI program roadmaps
  • Delivery governance
  • Executive reporting

LLM + GenAI Engineering

Active

Designing retrieval-ready LLM stacks with fine-tuning workflows, evaluation harnesses, and safety guardrails.

  • Custom finetunes
  • RAG blueprints
  • Evaluation + MLOps

Pythonic Problem Solving

Active

Writing production-grade Python applications, system automations, and prototypes rooted in DSA fundamentals.

  • Applied Python builds
  • DSA-driven problem solving
  • Automation pipelines

Journey

Experience

2016 — 2025

Apr 2024 — Present

Netscribes (formerly AKIRA)

Senior Consultant

Own the PMO and accounts charter for AI & data science programs for North American and European clients.

AI DeliveryAccount GrowthStakeholder Management

Sep 2023 — Mar 2024

CEBS Worldwide

Project Manager

Shipped mobile banking programs in Oman by steering cross-functional squads and vendor partners.

Mobile BankingAgileVendor Alignment

Jul 2022 — Aug 2023

Tatra Data

Project Manager

Mentored ML proof-of-concepts and a flagship EdTech build covering roadmap, delivery, and staffing.

Machine LearningProgram Management

Aug 2021 — Jul 2022

IBM

Project Manager

Led DevOps migration programs to Azure for a major US telecom while maintaining SLA governance.

AzureDevOpsMigration

Dec 2020 — Aug 2021

Information Services Group

Performance Analyst

Built analytics frameworks that validated >25M USD contracts for a leading food & beverages client.

AnalyticsFinanceReporting

Mar 2019 — Dec 2019

Capgemini

Associate Consultant

Fronted testing operations, governance, and executive reporting for strategic accounts.

Testing OpsClient Management

Apr 2018 — Mar 2019

Capgemini

Senior Software Engineer

Built Python notebook suites to visualize QA KPIs for banking clients in ANZ.

PythonDashboardsVisualization

Feb 2016 — Mar 2018

Capgemini

Software Engineer

Automated performance testing for banking apps using Python and Selenium.

AutomationPythonSelenium

Academics

Education

Foundations & Lifelong Learning

2011 — 2015

Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

B.Tech in Environmental Engineering

Built a strong engineering foundation with electives in data modeling, statistics, and systems design.

All India Rank 7075Capstone on data-driven sustainability

Ongoing

Self-directed learning

Specializations in GenAI & AI Engineering

Continuous coursework via DeepLearning.AI, Cohere, and open-source communities to stay sharp.

LangChain & LangGraphRAG systemsLLM fine-tuning

Selected

Projects & Case Studies

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2025Live

Hands-on Generative AI

A multi-week exploration of LLMs, RAG systems, MCP, and diffusion workflows documented as a learning operating manual.

2026In progress • Details coming soon

Bespoke Enterprise Agent

Placeholder for an in-flight project combining LangGraph, custom data governance, and evaluation harnesses.

Details soon

Labs

Research & Learnings

Drafting

RAG Systems at Scale

Design notes for vector hygiene, evaluation cadences, and prompt frameworks across industries.

Publishing soon
DocumentedUpdated 2025

Generative AI Field Notes

Weekly breakdown of foundations, transformers, agentic tooling, and deployment learnings.

Read the field notes

Contact

Let's shape something ambitious

Whether it is a GenAI pilot, LLM platform roadmap, I would love to collaborate. Tell me about your challenge, and I'll respond with a lightweight plan.

hi@thejakunuthuru.in