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Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu
Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu is an AI/ML Engineer at Expedia Group passionate about empowering humans through technology that solves real-world problems. With nearly a decade of experience spanning AI, Platform engineering, and Developer experience, he builds scalable AI systems grounded in research-backed and pragmatic practices.
At Expedia, he spearheaded KAI, an AI assistant enabling QnA, automated actions, and agentic workflows ($98M business opportunity), and architected an incident-response AI agent reducing investigation time from 10-20 minutes to under 10 seconds (90% faster incident resolution). At Tesla, he built a quality logging system that enabled data-driven operational improvements, delivering $1.2M in annual savings.
Beyond enterprise, Vivek advances the AI community through open-source projects (mcp-pandoc, cag-js), research on context engineering and evaluation, and published work on Chunked Augmented Generation (CAG) to overcome context limitations in Chrome's Gemini Nano, all guided by building solutions that bridge innovation with measurable human impact.
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11-Dec-2025Health & Pharma StagePanel: AI That Delivers: Cross-Industry Lessons from Real-World Impact
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