Murali Anand at the Mount Victoria lookout, Wellington

Murali Anand

AI Engineer

I build retrieval-augmented systems and the data pipelines behind them. Currently completing a Master of Artificial Intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington.

About Me

I'm an AI engineer drawn to the unglamorous half of applied AI: the data pipelines that decide whether a model is actually useful. Across two years at Talentship.io and Octonomy.ai I built preprocessing, text chunking, and vector database ingestion pipelines, and tuned retrieval and embedding strategies to make semantic search return the right thing.

I joined during the early-stage generative AI and RAG research that became the Octonomy product. I'm now completing a Master of Artificial Intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Alongside that I ship small tools and write about what I learn: fine-tuning on Apple Silicon, PDF extraction, agentic workflows.

Murali Anand on the Wellington waterfront
Languages
PythonTypeScriptLua
AI & ML
LangChainPyTorchRAGVector DatabasesLLMs
Build
FastAPINext.jsStreamlitGradio
Murali Anand standing arms out at the Mount Victoria lookout above Wellington harbour at sunset

Mount Victoria lookout

Wellington, New Zealand

Experience & Education

  1. Victoria University of Wellington

    Jun 2026 - Present

    Master of Artificial Intelligence

    Wellington, New Zealand

  2. Octonomy.ai

    Feb 2024 - Jun 2026

    Associate AI Data Engineer

    • Designed and implemented data preprocessing, text chunking, and vector database ingestion pipelines using advanced embedding models.
    • Optimized RAG pipelines and embedding strategies to improve semantic search performance.
  3. Talentship.io

    Feb 2024 - Jun 2026

    Associate AI Data Engineer

    • Contributed to the core research team during early-stage development of the Octonomy product.
    • Worked across generative AI and RAG research, LangChain, LLM-based systems, and AI pipeline design.
  4. Sri Ramachandra Engineering and Technology

    2020 - 2024

    B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML)

    GPA 8.11 / 10

Let's Create Together

Have an AI project or collaboration in mind? I'd love to hear about it. Reach out and let's build something amazing.