Alaguprakalya

Machine Learning Engineer / Docker Captain / Explorer

I'm a MLE/AI engineer trying to become better — by reading more, explaining more, and holding myself accountable through writing. This is that writing.

Currently building at ASAPP. Interested in systems, learning, and the craft of engineering. Also an AWS DeepRacer enthusiast, finished in the top 100 in the 2022 Indian Student League.

"Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
— Naval Ravikant

Writing

09 Mar 2026 Why I'm Starting to Write

2022 GPT-2 Tamil

Dec 2022 Whisper Diarization

Jan 2023 BiDETECT Paper

Mar 2023 DialoGPT Fine-tuning

Feb 2024 AI TN Kalambagam

May 2024 GDG Mysuru - RAG

Apr 2025 Docker Captain

Apr 2025 GDG Mysuru - ADK

May 2025 GDE AI Highlights

Aug 2025 GDG Ahlen - A2A/MCP

Sep 2025 AgentCon 2025

Dec 2025 ASAPP Feature

Mar 2026 Startup India Grand Challenge

Mind-sprints

Startup India Grand Challenge Material

Ray MLOps LLM Productionization

From notebooks to production — optimization with Ray, MLOps pipelines, and productionizing LLMs/models.

Docker Community Engagement

Docker Captain Monthly Talks

Active Docker Captain with monthly community engagement — demos, talks, and supporting developers. Follow on LinkedIn.

Inside ASAPP: Builders Who Give Back

Feature Open Source Docker

Featured in ASAPP's Giving Tuesday spotlight on engineers contributing to open source and tech communities.

AgentCon 2025 - Docker & AI Agents

Docker Captain AgentCon AI Agents

First event as Docker Captain — a detailed history of Docker and building AI agents automatically.

Decoding AI Agents: A2A vs MCP

GDG Ahlen AI Agents Interoperability

Breaking down A2A vs. MCP protocols — how different AI agents can work together effectively.

Featured in GDE AI Community Highlights

Featured in Google Developer Experts April 2025 AI Community highlights for Build with AI Mysuru event.

Building Multiagent Apps with ADK

GDG Mysuru ADK Gemini

Automating Patient Intake in Hospitals — building multiagent applications with Google's Agent Development Kit.

Became a Docker Captain

Docker Captain Community

Recognized as a Docker Captain for contributions to the Docker community through demos, talks, and content.

Varsity Info Bot with Gemma + RAG

GDG Mysuru Gemma LangChain

Building a RAG bot using Google's Gemma, LangChain, and FAISS with Varsity (Zerodha) knowledge DB.

AI Tamil Nadu Kalambagam 2024

Speaker Tamil NLP GPT-2

Guest speaker at AI Tamil Nadu Kalambagam 2024 for work on GPT-2 Tamil language model.

Fine-Tuning DialoGPT for Characters

Blog DialoGPT Fine-tuning

From Rick to Sheldon — fine-tuning DialoGPT to capture character personalities for dynamic dialogue generation.

BiDETECT: BiLSTM with BERT for Hate Speech Detection

Research NLP BERT

Published research paper on hate speech detection in tweets using BiLSTM with BERT embeddings.

Diarization with Whisper

Blog Whisper ASR

Speaker diarization using OpenAI's Whisper and Pyannote for transcription with speaker identification.

GPT-2 Tamil (Open Source)

HuggingFace Tamil NLP Open Source

GPT-2 model fine-tuned on Tamil language corpus for text generation — open source on HuggingFace.