NARENDRA KUMAR VADAPALLI

AI LEADER • VISUAL DESIGN ENTHUSIAST

A software engineer with a balanced left and right brain, specializing in pipeline development, DevOps, graphics tools, and site reliability.

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Credits in Media

Following are the entertainment / media projects I contributed technically

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Graduation work

Projects from my Masters program in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania

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Jul 8, 2026

The Model Taxonomy: LLMs, Vision Models, VLAs, and Diffusion

A developer's guide to the modern AI model taxonomy. Understand the architecture, modalities, and performance profiles of LLMs, ViTs, VLAs, and Diffusion.

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Jul 7, 2026

Training vs. Inference Lifecycle: A Developer's Guide to Weights, Backpropagation, and Serving

A step-by-step developer's view of the AI model lifecycle—from raw weights and backpropagation during training to freezing weights and serving inference.

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Jul 6, 2026

What is a Model Weight? Demystifying Tensors, Matrices, and File Formats

What actually happens when you download a model from Hugging Face? A developer's guide to tensors, weights, biases, and serialization formats like Safetensors and GGUF.

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