Piyush
Resume · 2026

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Currently Deep Learning Architect at AWS. I lead customer-facing GenAI delivery and still build the systems, tools, and reference implementations myself. The work spans AI product strategy, production agent systems, browser automation, and earlier speech AI research.

Experience

5 roles
May 2024 to Present Dallas, TX

Deep Learning Architect / Delivery Lead

Amazon Web Services

  • Led 30+ GenAI production deployments for Fortune 500 and startups, averaging 8-week time-to-value.
  • Architected and coded agentic AI, RAG, IDP, conversational AI, and browser automation systems.
  • Developed 15+ reference architectures and production code samples adopted network-wide.
  • Delivered 35+ executive workshops for C-suite and engineering leaders.
  • Orchestrated cross-functional teams of 4 to 6 including consultants, forward-deployed engineers, and applied scientists.
  • Drove 40 to 50% operational cost savings for customers.
  • Accelerated partner GTM through reusable assets and enablement programs.
Apr 2023 to May 2024 Remote

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Numerade Labs

  • Owned the AI product roadmap and technical strategy across all ML initiatives.
  • Built an AI video generation system from scratch (image gen, animation, TTS, avatars).
  • Deployed LLMs via vLLM achieving 10x throughput and 60% memory reduction.
  • Built and managed a team of 4 ML engineers and 2 interns; promoted 1 to senior within 12 months.
  • Led B2B adoption across 50+ academic partners achieving 90%+ feature adoption.
  • Delivered 70% cost reduction, 30% adoption increase, and 45% engagement lift.
Oct 2021 to Apr 2023 Remote

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Spectrum Labs

  • Built proprietary LLMs from scratch including fine-tuning, evaluation, quantization, and deployment.
  • Created a PyTorch toolkit adopted by the entire data science team.
  • Led a team of data scientists and ML engineers; established research-to-production processes.
  • Scaled the system to 12+ languages processing billions of daily messages.
  • Achieved a 40% latency reduction at 98% accuracy.
  • Partnered with the CTO and GTM on product strategy influencing multi-million-dollar ARR.
Aug 2021 to Oct 2021 Remote

Research Engineer

Comcast Applied AI

  • Built a production ASR system using wav2vec 2.0 achieving 30% WER reduction.
  • Served millions of users.
  • Published at IEEE ICASSP 2022.
May 2020 to Aug 2021 Bloomington, IN

Research Engineer

Indiana University Bloomington

  • Led research in speech translation and assessment.
  • Published at INTERSPEECH and IEEE ICASSP, winning 2 best-paper awards.

Education

3
  • M.S. in Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Indiana University Bloomington
    2020
  • Post Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications
    Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
    2018
  • Bachelor of Commerce
    Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
    2017

Publications

3
  • Optimally Encoding Inductive Biases into the Transformer Improves End-to-End Speech Translation
    Piyush Vyas, Anastasia Kuznetsova, Donald S. Williamson
    INTERSPEECH 2021 · Best Student Paper Award · Read PDF
  • An End-to-End Non-Intrusive Model for Subjective and Objective Real-World Speech Assessment Using a Multi-Task Framework
    Zhuohuang Zhang, Piyush Vyas, Xuan Dong, Donald S. Williamson
    IEEE ICASSP 2021 · Outstanding Student Paper Award · Read PDF
  • Temporal Early Exiting for Streaming Speech Commands Recognition
    Raphael Tang, Karun Kumar, Ji Xin, Piyush Vyas, Wenyan Li, Gefei Yang, Yajie Mao, Craig Murray, Jimmy Lin
    IEEE ICASSP 2022 · Read PDF

Skills

7 domains
Engineering
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, PyTorch, FastAPI, Next.js, Astro, Playwright, Zod, OpenTelemetry, Docker, BM25
AI / ML
vLLM, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, quantization, on-device WASM, model deployment, distributed training
Cloud & Platforms
AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, CDK), OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Google Gemini, Vector Databases, Open Food Facts
Agent & Browser
Agentic AI, multi-agent orchestration, MCP servers, browser automation, accessibility-tree selectors, deterministic replay (CDP virtual time, network record/replay), agent contracts, RAG, IDP, conversational AI
Speech & Audio
wav2vec 2.0, Whisper, ASR systems at scale, speaker verification, speech translation, speech assessment, speech synthesis, multi-task learning
Product & Solutions
GenAI solution architecture, reference architecture design, production deployment, cost optimization (40 to 70%), eight-week time-to-value delivery, customer discovery, roadmap ownership, B2B adoption strategy, executive presentations
Delivery & Leadership
Cross-functional team orchestration (4 to 6), engineering management, hiring and promotion, mentorship, 35+ executive workshops delivered, C-suite engagement, partner GTM, research-to-production process design, multi-million-dollar ARR strategy