Chinchu Thomas

Chinchu Thomas

AI/ML Engineer & Technical Lead
India
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Full-time Hybrid

About Me

AI/ML Engineer and Technical Lead at HP Inc. with 5 years of industry experience and a PhD in Applied Computing. Experienced in designing and developing end-to-end AI systems spanning agentic AI, generative AI, efficient…

Experience

AI/ML Engineer / Technical Lead

HP Inc · Bengaluru Urban , Karnataka , India
Oct 2021 - Present · 5 years 1 month

<ul><li>AI‑native software manufacturing model: autonomous, agent‑driven SDLC with dynamic skill orchestration, AI‑human collaboration, and governed workflows for continuous improvement.</li></ul><p></p><ul><li> Architected a framework-agnostic observability and evaluation platform for enterprise agentic AI systems, enabling systematic analysis of agent behavior and performance.</li><li> Designed OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing to capture end-to-end agent execution flows and support cross-SDK benchmarking across LangGraph, Google ADK, and Semantic Kernel.</li><li> Built modular evaluation pipelines integrating MLflow, LangFuse, and DeepEval for systematic assessment of agent quality, performance, and reliability.</li><li> Led security architecture and threat-modeling initiatives for enterprise agentic AI deployments.</li></ul><p></p><ul><li> Researching a hybrid approach to root-cause analysis for agentic systems that combines execution traces, logs, metrics, and domain context with algorithmic dependency-graph construction and LLM-based reasoning.</li><li> Exploring methods to localize failures from agent execution graphs, leverage LLMs for deeper root-cause investigation and remediation recommendations, and establish reliable evaluation strategies for validating proposed fixes.</li><li> Developing a proof-of-concept for a closed-loop diagnose–fix–re-evaluate framework, with ongoing research into fault localization, causal attribution, fix validation, and regression evaluation for agentic systems.</li></ul><p></p><ul><li> Partnering with an NGO to design and develop an AI-powered conversational platform for Sanskrit learning, leveraging language models to enable interactive practice, contextual dialogue, and adaptive learning experiences.</li></ul><p></p><ul><li> Designed a persona-driven synthetic data framework generating ~15M structured training data.</li><li> Distilled T5-small fom T5-base for conversational print-settings extraction, achieving 97% JSON exact-match accuracy.</li><li> Quantized the distilled model for resource-constrained edge deployment, optimizing memory footprint and inference efficiency.</li><li> Researched continual learning for implicit print-settings inference.</li><li> Built lightweight browser-based classifier (MobileNetV3, quantized, TensorFlow.js).</li></ul><p></p><ul><li> Led architecture of enterprise Excel layout-optimization plugin for print workflows.</li><li> Designed BFS-based table detection algorithm overcoming metadata limitations.</li><li> Delivered production-grade module integrated into enterprise systems.</li><li> Developed ML solutions for 3D printer analytics (anomaly detection, quality prediction, root cause analysis).</li><li> Designed LLM-based analytics frameworks and multimodal speech + NLP assessment systems.</li><li> Explored SLM experimentation (BitNet) for future lightweight model architectures.</li></ul>

Research Intern

Idiap Research Institute · Switzerland
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018 · 3 months

<p>Investigated speaker differences, popularity, and behavioral characteristics in informal learning using multimodal video, audio, transcript, and metadata features from a large-scale BookTube dataset.</p><p> Developed multimodal ML and unsupervised domain adaptation approaches using ADDA, Joint Adaptation Networks, and knowledge distillation for speaker-attribute prediction.</p><p> Research from this work contributed to peer-reviewed publications at ACM TVX 2019 and IMPROVE 2022.</p>

PROJECTS

AI-Native Software Manufacturing & Work Reconfiguration

HP Inc
Duration : 01-Jun-2026 - 25-Sep-2026

<ul><li>Architected an AI-native software manufacturing model using persistent agentic orchestration and reusable skills to transform the SDLC into an autonomous, governed, continuously improving engineering system.</li><li>Reconfigured software engineering work around AI-human collaboration and specialized workbenches, mapping engineering activities to agents, skills, and workflow stages.</li><li>Designed a persistent agent architecture with dynamic workbench-specific skill loading, RAG, memory/context management, and tool use for domain-grounded multi-step execution.</li><li>Implemented stage-level quality gates, human approval, and feedback loops to govern agent execution and ensure reliable progression through the workflow.</li><li>Enabled agents to identify domain/organizational knowledge gaps and request human clarification, avoiding unsupported assumptions during execution.</li></ul><p></p>

Skills

Python C++ C# .NET PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Scikit-learn LangGraph Google ADK AWS Strands RAG Tool Calling Agent Skills Context Engineering OpenTelemetry MLflow DeepEval LangFuse NumPy Pandas OpenPyXL OpenXML OpenCV NLTK Librosa Model Distillation Quantization ONNX TensorFlow.js Deep Learning Multimodal Learning Domain Adaptation Synthetic Data Signal Processing Observability Evaluation Root Cause Analysis Security Governance Human-in-the-loop Agent Orchestration Memory and Context Management
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