VENU MAKKA
AI Engineer @ Evolv Technology
About
I am an AI Engineer with a Postgraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science from IIT Bombay. Over the last 4+ years, I’ve helped startups and mid-sized companies in Pharma, Finance, Legal, and Sales automate workflows, enhance team efficiency, and drive business growth using AI. As a Top-Rated AI Expert on Upwork, I’ve delivered 60+ successful projects and 4000+ hours of AI solutions. Clients value my ability to combine technical depth with business understanding, with testimonials highlighting my quick delivery, clear communication, and innovative results - https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/topratedaiengineer?mp_source=share My expertise includes Generative AI, LLM agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, model fine-tuning and pre-training, and multimodal systems. I build AI-powered competitive analysis tools, intelligent assistants, social media bots, and automated research pipelines. From creating agentic code interpreters to scalable ML models and APIs, I ensure production-ready deployments on cloud platforms like AWS. Beyond backend AI engineering, I design user-friendly UIs integrated with databases and AI pipelines, making advanced solutions accessible for everyday business use. As the founder of NeuraLift, my mission is to empower businesses with AI to boost productivity, cut costs, and grow sales. NeuraLift combines deep AI expertise with practical implementation, building explainable and scalable solutions tailored to client needs. See more at https://neuralift.in/ I am driven by a vision to democratize AI and make intelligence accessible to every business, bridging the gap between innovative technology and real-world application. If you’re looking to integrate AI into your workflows, develop custom models, automate data pipelines, or launch AI-powered products, let’s connect to build impactful solutions together.
India
Hyderabad
Research
Team Management, Project Engineering, Web Scraping, Computer Vision, Data Science, Electronics, Arduino IDE, Sensors, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Natural Language Generation, Speech Processing, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Large Language Models (LLM), Programming, Python (Programming Language), Machine learning
Experience

AI Engineer
Develop and deploy LLM-based chatbots using RAG and vector DBs. Fine-tune LLMs for specialized tasks and build Agentic LLM applications. Implement scalable LLM solutions for dynamic decision-making. Develop and Deploy AI based competitive Intelligence, Lead Generation tools.

Head of Engineering & AI
At NextNow, I lead the engineering and AI strategy, empowering businesses with advanced Generative AI solutions. My role spans developing LLM-powered applications (ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral), building RAG-based chatbots with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases (Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate), and designing intelligent AI agents for real-world problem solving. I specialize in training and fine-tuning LLMs/ML models, prompt engineering, and integrating AI into scalable workflows using AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and cloud-native architectures. Alongside this, I guide our engineering team in creating intuitive web applications with seamless AI integration. Through these efforts, we’ve delivered solutions that boost productivity, automate complex workflows, and transform unstructured and structured data into actionable insights for our clients.

Data Scientist
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Built web scraping pipelines to extract and process pharmaceutical data for analysis. - Developed LLM-based tools for analyzing pharma data and generating insights. - Designed data pipelines and dashboards to track sales data and forecast demand. - Applied NLP for extracting insights from pharma text data and improving sales strategies. - Deployed Hugging Face Transformers for client use via Google Sheets. - Developed ML models for demand forecasting and sales optimization.

Student
IIIT Basar
Nirmal, Telangana, India
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