About
Abhi Ram Salammagari is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Workday, based in Fremont, California. He holds an MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a BE in Information Technology from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (Osmania University). His day-to-day is applied ML on Workday's HCM platform, and his work over the past decade has centered on applied machine learning, conversational AI, and natural language processing — though in practice he's a full-stack generalist who's shipped across ML, backend, frontend, mobile, IoT, and hardware. Outside his day job he contributes to open source, runs side projects, benchmarks local inference on his homelab, and writes about what he finds.
Experience
2024 — presentSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Workday · Pleasanton, CA
2019 — 2024Senior Software Engineer, [24]7.ai · Campbell, CA
2018 — 2019Software Engineer, [24]7.ai
2017 — 2018Software Engineer, SmartEar, Inc.
2016 — 2017Co-Founder / Lead Developer, Deary LLC · San Jose
2016 — 2017Graduate Teaching Assistant — Deep Learning, SJSU
2012 — 2015Founder, Learnasky · India
Education
MSSoftware Engineering, San Jose State University
BEInformation Technology, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (Osmania University)
Patent
- Method and apparatus for facilitating training of agents — US patent, co-inventors Abhishek Ghose, Anand Madhavan, Suneet Grover. Assigned to [24]7.ai. patents.justia.com
Selected publications
- Advancing Natural Language Understanding for Low-Resource Languages: Current Progress, Applications, and Challenges — IJARET, 2024.
- From Inspiration to Innovation: How Conversational AI is Transforming the Creative Landscape — with Gaurava Srivastava. IJCIET, 2024.
- The Rise of Interactive Learning in Chatbot Technology: From Static to Dynamic — with Gaurava Srivastava. 2024.
Talks
- Adaptive chatbots for incident management — Conf42.
Hackathons — 15+ wins, selected:
- Google Cloud Next '26 AI Arena (team AI-mmUnity)
- Intuit SmallBiz hackathon
- IATA NDC hackathon (DashDing) — held at LinkedIn HQ, project incubated by IATA
- Millennial Disrupt (San Francisco)
Recognition
- 2023 Outstanding Contribution Award, Workday
- 2021 Employee of the Year for Innovation, [24]7.ai
Open source
- gws — Google Workspace CLI (25.1k★, Google official): four merged PRs covering docs, structured exit codes, input validation, and output hygiene. See /opensource for details.