harshith reddy takkala | Lead LLM Engineer

Harshith Reddy Takkala Lead AI @Blitz| Prev Graduate Researcher @Google DeepMind, MIT, Lead ML Engineer @Stealth (Co-op), Amazon | MS CS. San Francisco, California, United States (US) 500 connections • 4,693 followers About Industry and research experience with companies (Blitz/TSM/SME, Google, Stealth), Research labs (MIT, UMass Amherst)and Startups. A strong foundation in computer science and a Master’s degree from UMass Amherst with a double concentration in Data Science and Field Experience. My expertise lies at the intersection of research and practical innovation, specializing in Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval (Search and Personalisation), Reinforcement Learning, Federated Learning, and MLOps. Machine Learning Researcher | Generative AI & NLP Specialist | Scalable ML Pipelines | Product Owner | Information Retrieval. Total Experience: 5 years and 3 months Experience Lead LLM Engineer - Blitz(https://www.linkedin.com/company/theblitzapp) (Current) Jun 2025 - Present (1 year and 2 months) in San Francisco, CA HIRING: Please reach out if you’re a builder. Unity developers, ML (Post training), Infra. TSM, Blitz, Dyno, ProBot, OSU.AI SME. Driving advancements in post-training, context engineering, reinforcement learning for stable diffusion, conversational AI, and scalable ML infrastructure & serving. Leading a memory-native conversational AI framework enabling persistent agents with long-term memory, persona consistency, and context-aware reasoning. Department: Engineering and Technical • Level: Senior Blitz is a Software Development company. Blitz is a go-to resource for in-game overlays, meta stats, and tier lists for popular games like League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, VALORANT, EFT, Fortnite, CS2, Apex Legends, Marvel Rivals, and Deadlock. Blitz has 30-40 employees (-10% YoY). Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its workforce is distributed across 11 countries (including Unit