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AI Manager | Sunnyvale, CA

Building AI Systems That Drive Real-World Impact

AI Manager | Computer Vision | LLM Systems | Manufacturing AI

5+ years building production ML systems in semiconductor manufacturing
Built and led a 4-engineer AI team from scratch
$10M+ business impact delivered globally
Specialized in computer vision, LLM systems, and real-world deployment

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Production AI

Models tied to deployment, workflow fit, and measurable business outcomes.

Manufacturing Context

Deep understanding of factory operations, yield, quality, and process realities.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Bridges engineering, operations, and AI teams to turn ideas into systems that stick.

About Me

From process engineering to production AI leadership.

The throughline has never been hype. It has always been solving difficult, physical-world problems where the cost of being wrong is real.

Chemical Engineer → Micron → Skyworks → AI Leader

Gowtham’s path into AI did not start in a lab chasing benchmarks. It started on manufacturing floors, where process variation, quality, throughput, and engineer trust all shape whether a system matters.

That foundation created a leadership style centered on production AI: systems that survive contact with real operations, integrate into how teams work, and create measurable results. The philosophy is simple: if it doesn’t create measurable impact, it doesn’t matter.

Differentiator

Combines domain knowledge, ML engineering, and deployment instinct.

Operating Style

Works across engineering, operations, and AI instead of inside one silo.

01

Chemical Engineering Roots

Started with process discipline, experimentation, and the physics of how complex systems behave under pressure.

02

Micron

Built a manufacturing-first mindset through process engineering, automation, and statistical decision-making.

03

Skyworks

Scaled inspection and yield optimization globally, turning computer vision into operational leverage.

04

Innoscience

Built and led an AI team from the ground up, shipping production systems across factories, workflows, and decision loops.

Featured Projects

A portfolio built around impact, not experiments.

These are the kinds of systems that change operating cadence, reduce friction for engineers, and create durable value in production.

Computer Vision

AI Defect Classification System

A CLIP-based inspection pipeline designed for high-volume manufacturing review, where accuracy mattered only if it removed human latency from the loop.

Impact

$1M+ savings

90%+ accuracy
24 hours to 1 minute review time
Production deployment in fab workflow
CLIPPyTorchActive LearningVision Ops

Transformer Vision

End-of-Line Quality Automation

Built a SIGLIP2-powered final inspection system tuned for precision, throughput, and trust at the end of the manufacturing line.

Impact

400+ hours/week saved

99%+ precision
Scales toward 2000+ hours/week
Factory-ready decision automation
SIGLIP2TransformersMLOpsGPU Inference

Flagship Project

Agentic Root Cause System

Combined XGBoost, SHAP, RAG, and an LLM agent to move root cause analysis from reactive investigation to guided autonomous recommendation.

Impact

40% faster RCA

Patent-aligned system design
Autonomous recommendations
Decision support for engineers and operations
XGBoostSHAPLLM AgentsRAG

Knowledge Systems

Enterprise RAG Chatbot

Created an engineering knowledge layer across thousands of technical documents so teams could retrieve critical answers without digging through tribal knowledge.

Impact

10,000+ docs indexed

Qdrant to Milvus evolution
FastAPI backend
Used for technical knowledge retrieval
FastAPIQdrantMilvusEmbeddings

Global Deployment

YOLOv8 Inspection System

Shipped a vision-based inspection system across the US, Japan, and Singapore, proving AI value through measurable operational and quality outcomes.

Impact

$8.1M savings

80% fewer false positives
Deployed across 3 countries
Scaled in live manufacturing environments
YOLOv8OpenCVMLOpsFactory Integration

Interactive View

See how the work connects.

The strongest AI programs are not isolated models. They are connected systems spanning domain context, deployment, and measurable business effect.

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Skills & Stack

The toolkit behind the outcomes.

A blend of applied ML, deep vision systems, LLM infrastructure, and the production stack required to make them useful.

AI / ML

PyTorchTensorFlowXGBoost

Vision

CLIPYOLOv8Transformers

LLM Systems

RAGQwenLoRA / DoRA

Production Systems

FastAPIAirflowGPU Clusters

Data & Analytics

SQLPower BITableau

Experience

A career arc shaped by increasingly ambitious real-world systems.

Each step added a new layer: process understanding, global deployment, and finally AI leadership with production accountability.

1

Innoscience

AI Manager

Built a 4-engineer AI team
Delivered production ML systems
Led GPU-backed deployments across operations
2

Skyworks

AI Engineering

Global AI deployment
Yield and inspection optimization
High-impact computer vision systems at scale
3

Micron

Process Engineering

Automation and statistical modeling
Deep manufacturing process knowledge
Foundation for deployment-first AI thinking

Patents & Achievements

Proof points beyond project delivery.

Innovation matters most when it compounds across systems, teams, and recognition.

Patent

Root Cause Recommendation Engine

Patent

Automated Unit Exclusion System

Speaking

Conference presentations on applied AI and manufacturing systems

Recognition

Awards tied to operational impact, innovation, and cross-functional leadership

Contact

Let’s talk about AI systems that ship.

Open to conversations with recruiters, founders, and technical leaders working on applied AI, operations, or manufacturing transformation.

Sunnyvale, CA

Production AI. Real operations. Measurable impact.

The most valuable AI systems are the ones that people trust enough to use every day. This portfolio is built for conversations about how to make that happen at scale.