Platform Architect - AI and Cloud
Vikas Mishra
Platform Architect at Google with 16+ years of experience building distributed systems, LLM pipelines, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Areas of Expertise
AI/ML Architecture
LLM pipelines, model serving, MLOps, TPU/GPU optimization for enterprise AI systems
Cloud Solutions
Google Cloud Platform, multi-cloud architecture, cloud migration, and infrastructure optimization
Distributed Systems
Microservices, Kubernetes, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures
Engineering Leadership
Team building, technical mentoring, and engineering strategy for AI/ML teams
16+
Years of Experience
30+
Conference Talks
60+
Engineers Mentored
Blockchain-Based Verification for Fair Play in Fantasy Sports Using Merkle Trees
The AI Valley Podcast
Conversations on AI, cloud architecture, and the future of technology.
Recent Writing
Unlocking the Secret Sauce of LLMs: Why the Math Matters - A Technical Deep Dive
Exploring the essential mathematical foundations that practitioners need when working with Large Language Models, from linear algebra to optimization.
Beyond Frontier Models: A Technical Deep Dive & Practitioner's Guide to LLM Tuning, Optimization, Deployment, and Architecture
A comprehensive guide covering post-training techniques, production deployment, retrieval augmentation, evaluation, hallucination management, and advanced architectures for LLMs.
Building Resilient Systems: Lessons Learned
Key principles and patterns for building systems that gracefully handle failures and continue operating under stress.
Getting Started with Go: A Practical Guide
A beginner-friendly introduction to Go programming language with practical examples and best practices.
Projects
Explain Error
A CLI tool that transforms cryptic error messages and stack traces into clear, actionable explanations using AI-powered analysis.
Repo Inspector
A CLI tool that uses AI to analyze codebases and explain what they do, how they're structured, and how data flows through them.
CLI Task Manager
A fast, minimalist command-line task manager built with Go.
Lightweight API Gateway
A high-performance API gateway with rate limiting, authentication, and request routing.