Applied ML · Digital Experience · Tesla

SRIKANTH KADABA

Agentic Workflows · Traditional ML · Software Engineering.

$12.3M Capacity trial (est.)
+20% NA field throughput
−22% Drive time
On-call AI → productive hours
Digital Experience · graph

Product · project · paradigm

Click a node to light its neighborhood — stack and paradigms follow.

Outcomes

What shipped

Production systems I led or owned. On-call across dispatch, booking, capacity, slots — NA & EMEA.

Also shipped

Supporting systems & strategy

Supporting systems and judgment calls behind the signature outcomes — lower weight, still shipped.

On-call AI · productive hours ReAct

On-call Agent Systems

Skills + ReAct agents and infra so on-call bots turn into productive engineering hours — not just alert spam.

Applied AI · ReAct · skills · agent infra

AI agents · developer platform 6 teams

Robodev × Jira

Multi-tenant agents from Jira — planning, codegen, review for 6 IT projects; Tesla One Mobile debug.

Platform · multi-tenant agents · Jira

Technical direction ~4% cap

Kill / Keep Modeling

Modeled Preferred Slots ROI (~4% ceiling) and staffing spikes; killed low-upside work so Buffer Buster–class levers kept eng time.

Judgment · go/no-go bars · roadmap influence

Capacity analytics E2E pipeline

Skillset Capacity Analytics

Open-slot-by-skillset pipeline — demand/supply base for work-mix planning across field capacity.

Analytics · open slots by skillset · work-mix

How I operate

Judgment · force multipliers · production ownership

Experience paradigms: Velocity, 80/20, 0 → 1, 1 → 100.

Velocity

Ship, measure, harden — short loops over perfect plans.

80/20

Kill low-ceiling work; put force on the lever that moves the metric.

0 → 1

Jarvis, Robodev, agent skills/infra — zero to working product.

1 → 100

Voyager scale, booking across 400+ sites, agent adoption under load.

Kill fast

Preferred Slots ~4% impact cap → deprioritized. Staffing spike killed before months of eng burned.

Harden under fire

Voyager: 500s 24→4, RMQ 300KB→3KB, stale-connection recovery — permanent fixes, not heroics.

Ship E2E

Buffer Buster design→trial→field. Jarvis backend→7k tool calls. Booking pipeline 6h→30m.

Technical direction Influence

Steer to the compounder

Hard ROI bars. Kill weak paths. Push roadmap toward capacity levers that compound — not sole org owner of the roadmap.

People Multiplier

Transfer ownership, not tickets

Onboard eng + interns onto dispatch, booking-rate, and capacity systems so they ship with production standards — pairing, review bar, shared on-call load.

Production On-call

Own the surfaces I ship

Tier-3 primary on dispatch (Voyager), booking-rate, capacity analytics, and slots pipelines — feature/project ownership with clear bounds, not sole TL of Digital Experience.

Path

How I got here

Short form. Signature outcomes above. Here: scope growth with ownership bounds.

May 2025 – now Tesla · Fremont

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer · Digital Experience

Expanded ownership on production agents and internal platforms — Jarvis backend (7k+ tool calls, 700+ ops users) and Robodev adoption (Jira multi-tenant path for 6 IT projects; Tesla One Mobile observability). Multi-system ownership with clear consumers; not org-wide platform TL.

May 2023 – May 2025 Tesla · Fremont

Machine Learning Engineer · Digital Experience

Core decision-systems loop: demand/throughput ML (~+20% NA Mobile; pilot backlog ~−40%), Buffer Buster capacity trials (project lead; est. $12.3M trial window), Voyager reliability + scheduling features (feature owner + tier-3, not sole Voyager TL), booking-rate pipeline (−91% runtime) and cancellation-aware overbooking. Depth in Work above.

Aug – Dec 2022 Tesla · Fremont

Machine Learning Intern · Digital Experience

Hypothesis-driven demand experiments (sparse/dense regions) cutting average drive times; faster vehicle-routing APIs via dynamic regional localization; HPC simulation of scheduling systems; visualization of zones, routes, throughputs, and drive times.

2021 – Apr 2023 Northeastern · Boston

M.S. Data Science · Khoury College · GPA 3.91

Graduate algorithms, supervised & unsupervised ML, NLP, data management, DBMS, cloud (AWS).

May – Aug 2022 Sherlock Biosciences

Data Science Intern · R&D Bioinformatics

ML clustering on gene sequences; ~40% cumulative diagnostic coverage; outlier pipelines from 510k filings; end-to-end primer-design pipeline for fast-evolving analytes.

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 Teamlease · Google / Oppia

Applications Engineer · Oppia Android

Offline content download backends with Protocol Buffers (−30% overhead); offline viewing UX on Oppia Android.

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020 L&T · Sony Mobile

Software Engineer · Android systems

Dynamic partitioning on Android Q update engine; In-Device-Diagnostic app for boot/update crashes — field-facing systems software for Sony Mobile.

2014 – 2018 BMSCE · Bengaluru

B.E. Electronics & Communication · GPA 8.84/10

Advanced eng math, discrete math & probability, linear algebra — signal, noise, systems under constraint.

Contact

Senior+ / Staff-track Applied ML & ML Systems

Decision systems, logistics/ops ML, production agents, multi-surface ownership with hard boundaries. Fremont / Bay Area. Not foundation-model research — building toward Staff, not claiming the title.

Off the laptop: Pi automations, long runs, trails, landscape photos.

Srikanth Kadaba Bhogananda · Fremont / Bay Area · open to conversations

Fit

Applied decision ML

Capacity, routing, booking policy, ops agents, production reliability — blast radius required. Senior+ / Staff-track scope; clear ownership bounds.

Maker

Hardware & automation

IoT controllers, Pi setups, workspace automation — same build muscle, different medium.

Reset

Miles & light

Distance running, hiking, landscape photography. Best debugging often starts offline.