Mehul Rao
AI/ML Engineer & Founding Engineer
Building AI infrastructure at scale and healthcare AI platforms. Previously optimized inference fleets at AWS Bedrock and currently engineering the future of therapy at Emory Healthcare and Innovar Health.
Experience
Founding Engineer
MealPlanR
- •Building an end-to-end therapist platform with Emory & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
- •Fine-tuned GPT-OSS 21B with QLoRA/PEFT on therapist materials.
- •Designed an agentic RAG stack using Qdrant with hybrid retrieval (Patent Pending).
AI/ML Engineer
AWS Bedrock AI
- •Operated large-scale EKS inference fleets (~50k+ nodes) serving Anthropic models.
- •Designed safe rollouts and PDBs to maintain low-latency, high-throughput SLOs.
- •Optimized runtime across AWS Trainium2 and NVIDIA H100 instances.
Software Engineer Intern
Hulu / Disney Streaming
- •Developed ML models to group Ad Assets, enhancing operational efficiency.
- •Fine-tuned VideoMAE models on 60M parameters, achieving 94% accuracy.
- •Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production.
Software Engineer Intern
Buckeye Innovation
- •Implemented a proactive Slack AI chatbot leveraging NLP.
- •Managed AWS cloud infrastructure using Docker, Terraform, and Ansible.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of ComputingBachelor of Science in Computer Science
Concentration
Intelligence and Systems Architecture
Minor
FinTech
Award: Zell Miller Scholarship
Skills
Languages
PythonRustTypeScriptJavaC++C
Cloud & DevOps
AWSGCPDockerTerraformAnsibleKubernetes
AI / ML
LLM Fine-tuningRAGEKS InferencePyTorchHuggingFace
Web & Databases
Next.jsReactPostgreSQLMongoDBRedis
Featured Projects
Get In Touch
I'm currently building the future of therapy at MealPlanR. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about AI, systems, or just say hi!