Hello, I’m Ayush Thakur 👋
I currently work as Manager, AI Engineering at Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, leading a small team of awesome AI Engineers. We focus on bringing down the entry of barrier to have an MLOps or LLMOps stack into a framework of your choice by building integrations, writing docs, creating educational content, and more. The crux of my work is to grow our usebase and have played a crucial role in doing so. As one of the earliest hire in the growth team, I have been involved with multiple key integrations, initiatives, projects, and more.
I have been in the field of AI for 5 years now and have worked with multiple frameworks, tools, and platforms. I have a strong background in Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and MLOps.
Professional Experience
Manager, AI Engineering | Weights & Biases
February 2025 - Present
- Lead a small team of AI Engineers focusing primarily on integrations today but plan to do a lot more amazing things in the future. Building a team to achieve the same.
- Leading an effort to build our own algamation of benchmarks for for LLM/VLM evaluation and in turn build the framework for it.
Machine Learning Engineer | Weights & Biases
August 2020 - January 2025
- Developed MLOps pipelines for popular open-source repositories/frameworks/orgs like Keras, OpenMMLab, Meta, XGBoost, and more.
- Developed LLMOps integrations with LLM providers like OpenAI, Cohere, CrewAI, and more.
- Reproduced research papers and wrote about them. Check them out here.
- Built and evaluated wandbot, a Q&A RAG based chatbot.
- Created courses on LLM applications and MLOps.
- Written multiple blog posts and tutorials on Deep Learning, MLOps, RAG, Evaluation and more. Check them out here.
- Owned the OS integration efforts.
- Created and built our Kaggle Ambassador program. Became a Kaggle Notebooks Master in the process.
Technical Author | Weights & Biases January 2020 - August 2020
- Wrote tehcnical reports (blog posts) on ML concepts. You can find them in my W&B profile.
- Proud to have some of these reports featured in “Two Minute Papers”
Courses Created
- LLM apps: Evaluation
- RAG++: From POC to Production
- Training and Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) (*featured in a module because of my “Starter pack for NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge 2023”.)
Certifications & Recognition
- Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning (TensorFlow Core) (Aug 2022 - Present)
- Kaggle Notebooks Master - Created numerous popular notebooks for competitions. You can find them in my Kaggle profile.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering | Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, WB. 2016 - 2020
Schooling | Notre Dame Academy in Munger, Bihar.
Community Involvement
- Google Developer Group - Volunteer (Nov 2018 - Nov 2019)
- Robonix 2018 - Assistant Head for Line Follower competition (Feb 2018 - Mar 2018)
Personal Interests
I love thinking about hard problems and up-skilling myself to solve some.
In my free time, I love watching anime (Naruto is my all-time favorite, One Piece is love, and Solo Leveling is 🔥).
Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or LinkedIn for collaborations or discussions!