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Karthik Raja Anandan

Karthik Raja Anandan

Founding AI/ML Engineer · Elas

Founding AI/ML Engineer at Elas (Pleasanton, CA), building and validating production agentic AI systems — test automation, multi-agent routing, and dev infrastructure. M.S. AI, UC Santa Cruz (2025, GPA 3.9). Open-source: Google Tunix, LangChain, Ivy. NVIDIA GTC 2026 · SemEval 2025 Task 4 Winner.

Pleasanton, CA kanandan@ucsc.edu

M.S. AI

UC Santa Cruz — 3.9 GPA

4 Roles

Elas · Samsung · Citi · MultiOn

GTC 2026

NVIDIA Demo — Meta Booth

Open Source

Tunix · LangChain · Ivy

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 GPA: 3.9/4.0

B.E. in Computer Science

SSN College of Engineering

Aug 2019 - Aug 2023 GPA: 3.9/4.0

AI/ML Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Elas

Jan 2026 - Present Pleasanton, CA
160-scenario eval suite · 100% routing coverage · 10+ repos (800+ commits)
PythonAWS ECSKubernetesArgo CI/CDMulti-AgentIntegration Testing

AI Research Engineer

Samsung Research Capstone

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 Santa Cruz, CA
1.5-bit 32B Qwen validated · long-horizon agent verification
PythonGUI AgentsvLLMQwenQuantizationRTX 3070

Software Development Engineer

Citi Corp

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024 Chennai, India
millions of events/day · 25% faster processing
JavaSpring BootKafkaHadoopSparkJenkins

NLP Engineering Intern

MultiOn (Stanford Startup)

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 Palo Alto, CA
LangChain PR #12392 merged · +40% agent accuracy
PythonLangChainVector DatabasesOpen Source

Core Competencies

Backend & Systems

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesREST APIsEvent-DrivenSystem Design

AI / ML

LLM SystemsRAG PipelinesAgent ArchitecturesPyTorchNLP

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SQS)DockerKubernetesCI/CD

Languages

PythonJavaC++GoRustSQL