Aakash Agrawal

Building the platforms & infrastructure AI runs on

About

I work in the unglamorous middle layer of AI, turning research and prototypes into systems teams can depend on. 0→1 is my default: ML platforms, agentic and GenAI infrastructure, and the whole path to production.

The part I love is the bridge - making research-stage ideas hold up and scale, including the bits people skip: governance, cost, adoption.

Outside that: a bike, a race, travel, or a new language (not the programming kind :-)).

Experience

2022 — Now
Member of Scientific Staff · DISH Network · United States

Building ML/AI platforms and agentic + GenAI infrastructure: from RL-driven self-optimizing 5G networks to an enterprise Data & AI platform.

2020 — 2022
Senior Data Scientist · Oracle · Broomfield, CO

Audience-modeling R&D for Advertising Cloud: end-to-end ML for ad targeting at scale.

2019 — 2020
Data Science Associate · Mu Sigma · Bellevue, WA

Data science for T-Mobile: NLP call-driver classification and BI analytics pipelines.

2017 — 2019
MS, Information Management · University of Washington · Seattle, WA

Master's in Data Science & Business Intelligence. TA for ML & econometrics (IMT 574).

2015 — 2017
Assistant Systems Engineer · Tata Consultancy Services · Bengaluru, India

R&D in image processing and augmented / mixed-reality applications.

Writing

Eudexia — An LLM-based AI Assistant

A RAG assistant that lets teams query their own private documentation in plain language and get answers grounded in real sources — collapsing a 30-minute hunt across hundreds of internal docs into under a minute.

— A three-part series on building a self-perfecting 5G network —

Network Observability Framework

The data layer underneath: an open-source, cloud-agnostic observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki) that collects logs and metrics from a Kubernetes cluster and feeds them to the RL agent in near real time.

Self-Perfecting Networks

How a reinforcement-learning agent can act as the brain of a 5G network that tunes itself — a closed-loop system where the agent observes a simulated 5G core running as a Kubernetes app and adjusts resources to balance service quality against cost.

Open Source Machine Learning Architecture for Telco

A modular, open-source ML framework spanning the full lifecycle — ingestion, data prep, training, deployment — built so teams can swap compute backends without re-plumbing. Applied to anomaly detection on Kubernetes performance logs.

Open Source

Luminex Tech lead & maintainer

A no-code, on-the-fly ETL application.

devex-sdk Core contributor & maintainer

DISH DevEx's open-source SDK.

Projects & Demos

Edge Agent Ops

Edge Agent Ops

A guardrailed LLM agent that monitors a fleet of edge AI inference nodes, diagnoses faults, and remediates them only within hard policy limits. Ships an evaluation harness and a live Prometheus + Grafana observability stack.

LLM Serving Stack

LLM Serving Stack

An OpenAI-compatible LLM inference gateway — async request queue, SSE streaming, auth, rate limiting, prompt-based routing, OpenTelemetry tracing, and a provisioned Prometheus/Grafana board. Ollama-backed locally, swappable to vLLM/TGI.

Patents