AI FDE · IBM · New York, NY

Elijah Tharakan

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Forward deployed at IBM: I work alongside clients once the platform is live, building the custom AI solutions they need and landing them on their own systems. The rest of my time goes to embedded platforms that have to be right the first time, because there is a motor on the other end of the wire.

~$ whoami --verbose

name      = "Elijah Tharakan"
role      = "AI Forward Deployed
             Engineer @ IBM"
location  = "New York City, NY"
education = ["B.S. Computer Science",
             "B.S. Electrical Engineering"]
school    = "Penn State — Class of 2026"
focus     = ["LLM infra", "RAG",
             "embedded", "computer vision"]

~$ uptime --since-first-commit
# shipping since 2023 · 1M+ queries in prod

~$ _