Alok Upadhyay
Building intelligence
at scale.
ML Engineering Leader at Amazon with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-stakes AI systems across Prime Video, AWS, and AGI. I lead cross-functional teams at the intersection of Multimodal AI, Recommendation Systems, and Secure Biometrics -- bridging state-of-the-art research and production infrastructure for hundreds of millions of global users. US Patent holder. Peer reviewed researcher. IEEE Senior Member.
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Career, research, patents, and media coverage.
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Thoughts on building Multimodal AI, ML systems at scale, and lessons from the trenches.
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12+ years at Amazon & AWS -- from founding engineer to leading 18-20 person ML orgs at massive scale.
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Featured in Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, TIME, The Verge, CNET, and 10+ major outlets.
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4 granted US patents in multimodal identity recognition, biometric authentication, and person detection.
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Peer-reviewed papers at ICLR 2026, MathAI, and IEEE. Reviewer for ICLR, CVPR, ACM ICMR.
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Open to ML leadership roles, co-founder opportunities, and advisory positions.
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