Akash James
AI ARCHITECT
OPEN TO WORK
AKASH
JAMES
3AI platforms
50+production use-cases
10+multimodal platforms
1product acquisition
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3
AI platforms
built 0→1, end-to-end
50+
production use-cases
designed & shipped
10+
multimodal platforms
vision · language · audio
1
product acquisition
outcome: acquired

About

I architect and ship agentic AI systems that actually launch — video-first data lakes, retrieval engines, and fine-tuned LLMs. Former research scholar at UC Berkeley; Z by HP Global Data Science Ambassador; and NVIDIA Jetson AI Research Lab member. If it runs on GPUs or edge silicon, I squeeze more out of it.

CurrentlyDirector of AI — MyBlue.ai
Focus
Agentic systems · Multimodal · RAG
Tooling
qLoRA · SFT · DPO · Qdrant · DeepStream
Vibe
Outlaw energy. Production over slides.

Career

01 / 04
LIVEMar 2025 — Present

Director of AI

MyBlue.ai

Building a video data lake with full agentic capabilities (multimodal RAG, LLM tools, graph-native retrieval).

GenAIAgenticVideoRAGQdrant
02 / 04
Aug 2022 — 2025

Lead AI Architect

SparkCognition

Roadmapped and led SC’s Visual AI Advisor (VAIA). Patented a low-resource face recognition pipeline; built cross-cam re-ID; shipped SDKs.

Computer VisionDeepStreamTensorRTProduct
03 / 04
2023

Visiting Research Scholar (Former)

UC Berkeley

Wildfire detection research: low-latency pipeline across ~1k CalTrans CCTVs; YOLO-based smoke/fire detection.

ResearchCVEdge AI
04 / 04
2020 — 2022

AI Architect

Integration Wizards

Designed high-FPS video analytics on GPUs (DeepStream), modular IRIS pipeline (−75% time-to-deploy).

CUDAPipelinesAnalytics

Skills

AI / MLComputer VisionDeep LearningAgentic SystemsMultimodal AIVideo IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingEdge AIAI / MLComputer VisionDeep LearningAgentic SystemsMultimodal AIVideo IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingEdge AIAI / MLComputer VisionDeep LearningAgentic SystemsMultimodal AIVideo IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingEdge AI
PyTorchTransformersLangChainOpenCVDeepStreamTensorRTONNXLlamaIndexQdrantYOLORAGPyTorchTransformersLangChainOpenCVDeepStreamTensorRTONNXLlamaIndexQdrantYOLORAGPyTorchTransformersLangChainOpenCVDeepStreamTensorRTONNXLlamaIndexQdrantYOLORAG
DockerKubernetesFastAPIGCPNVIDIA JetsonGitHub ActionsqLoRASFTDPOCLIPWhisperGStreamerDockerKubernetesFastAPIGCPNVIDIA JetsonGitHub ActionsqLoRASFTDPOCLIPWhisperGStreamerDockerKubernetesFastAPIGCPNVIDIA JetsonGitHub ActionsqLoRASFTDPOCLIPWhisperGStreamer

DRAG TO SCRUB · HOVER TO HIGHLIGHT

Core Skills


Generative AI
qLoRASFTDPOPrompt EngineeringAgentsLLM Routing
Multimodal
Vision-LanguageVideo QARe-IDObject Tracking
RAG / Retrieval
Hybrid SearchGraphRAGQdrantRe-rankDedup
Acceleration
DeepStreamTensorRTCUDATriton

Featured Projects

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Invited Talks

NVIDIA GTC 2025 talk
Featured Talk

Session S74465

NVIDIA GTC 2025

Watch my invited talk at NVIDIA GTC 2025, where I discuss cutting-edge AI, robotics, and real-world deployment strategies at scale.

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Talks & Videos

Writing

Honours

Let's build something
outrageous.

Speaking · Consulting · Collabs