Thirumalesh Konthala is a chief AI scientist, founder and director of DATAi2i, and head of India and partner at Alphanome.AI. With nearly 20 years of experience, he specializes in production AI, generative AI, and enterprise data science. Through DATAi2i, he advances agentic AI platforms and GenAI solutions for industrial automation and operational intelligence.
As advisor for AI product development and advanced DS strategy, he consults multiple organizations on building scalable AI architecture, implementing enterprise MLOps, and assembling high-performing data science and AI teams. He is passionately committed to bridging AI research and production-ready LLM deployment solutions.
His career spans Amazon, Cardlytics, DBS Bank, Novartis, and Franklin Templeton, where he built teams, pioneered the Purchase Graph deep learning architecture, and implemented enterprise MLOps on Kubernetes. Thirumalesh Konathala holds a PhD in AI, a masters in statistics from Central University of Hyderabad, and was trained at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Based in Vishakhapatnam, he actively mentors at universities and speaks at AI conferences on production AI and LLM deployments.