I'm Ajay K V (AJ), a Tech Lead and full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

• 🛠 Engineering & Architecture: Founding lead of a technical team specializing in AI/ML integration and cloud infrastructure. Extensive background building in Flutter, with backend and system architecture experience primarily in FastAPI, Django, and Node.js. I also build dynamic frontend interfaces using React, Angular, Streamlit, and Gradio. (And currently exploring Dart for the backend!)   
• 🤖 AI & Local LLMs: Passionate about Machine Learning and AI. Experienced in building advanced RAG workflows, chatbots, and multi-agent orchestration. I have hands-on experience with vision models like Meta's SAM2, as well as image generation pipelines including Stable Diffusion. Deeply focused on local LLM inference, fine-tuning custom models with synthetic datasets, and CUDA optimization. Actively benchmarking architectural breakthroughs like Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) and quantization techniques (GGUF, TurboQuant, Unsloth) across frameworks like llama.cpp, MLX, and vLLM. AI-Portfolio   
• ☁️ Cloud & DevOps: Architecting scalable, production-ready infrastructure across GCP and AWS. Experienced in provisioning compute instances, configuring VPC firewalls, and deploying containerized backends to GCP Cloud Run managed with robust worker pools. Proficient in bare-metal and Linux server administration (Debian, Nginx, SSL/Certbot).   
• 🎙 Knowledge Sharing: I believe in building in public. Join the technical discourse on my Twitter, or visit my YouTube channel, CodingSalad.   
• 📚 Learning & Exploring: Currently focusing on math, deepening my understanding of ML/DL concepts, and maximizing AI hardware performance on both Apple Silicon and dedicated GPU rigs.   
• 🏋️‍♂️ Beyond the Keyboard: Strongman training (chasing that 200kg deadlift and squat!), astrophotography with my Fujifilm, and diving into Pokémon ROM hacks.