Applied ML · Engineering Leadership

Amit Butala

20+ years building AI infrastructure at scale and AI-first products on top of LLMs, agents, and computer-use. Currently at Rippling; previously Meta, Paxos, Qualcomm.

Available for advisory 18+ USPTO patents Cornell · IIT Bombay SF Bay Area
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01 / About

Solving mission-critical problems
with technology and strategy.

I drive transformative innovation by shipping high-impact, organization-wide initiatives that report directly to VP and CEO. My work has shaped ML lifecycle management and unified digital presence at Meta, stablecoin and tokenization frameworks at Paxos, and foundational 5G/4G/3G cellular architectures across a decade of wireless.

At Rippling, I lead a team enabling the enterprise AI revolution — AI infrastructure at scale, plus AI-first products built on LLMs, AI agents, agent protocols (AOPs), and computer-use agents (CUAs). Focus: harnessing AI as the core driver of business efficiency and innovation.

Outside the day job I advise Databricks (Product Advisory Board) and Proshort (Technical Advisor), and hack on side projects under the Deviation Labs banner.

20+
Years engineering leadership
18+
USPTO patents
5+
Years at Meta / Facebook
3
Advisory roles
02 / Experience

Where I've spent my time.

Sr. Staff, Applied ML · Rippling
May 2024 — Present
Building 0→1 product and product infra for feature engineering, model governance, and RAG. Team supports both AI infra at scale and AI-first products on LLMs, agents, and computer-use.
LLMsRAGAgentsMLOps
Engineering Leadership · Paxos
Nov 2022 — Apr 2024
Owned infra for all Paxos stablecoins (USDP, PYUSD, etc.). Scaled transaction APIs for fiat and crypto, compliance reporting, traditional-bank integrations, and overall SLAs.
StablecoinsTokenizationFinTech
Director of Engineering · Abacus.AI
Dec 2021 — Nov 2022
Product engineering, release, and customer success across the Abacus.AI platform. (Index Ventures · Khosla · Decibel.)
Tech Lead, AI Applied Research · Facebook / Meta
Jun 2016 — Dec 2021
Led multiple bootstrap initiatives with exec-level reporting: FAIR ML lifecycle management, Messenger unified presence global launch, Terragraph TAS system-integration framework for 5G wireless backhaul.
ML Infra5GGlobal Scale
Founding Engineer · Luminate Wireless
Oct 2013 — Jun 2016
Overall product owner for the wireless stack: roadmap, algorithms, zero-config, FCAPS, new product initiatives. 5+ USPTO patents. (Sequoia · NEA.)
Principal Engineer / Office of CTO · SpiderCloud Wireless
May 2008 — Jan 2013
Full lifecycle for a new product category addressing poor in-building cellular signal. 10 USPTO patents. Acquired by Corning Wireless.
Systems Lead · Qualcomm
Aug 2001 — Mar 2008
Technical ownership of the 3G cellular uplink protocol stack. 3 USPTO patents.
03 / Advisory

Also advising.

May 2025 — Present
Databricks
Product Advisory Board.
Feb 2024 — Present
Proshort
Technical Advisor. Product strategy, SOTA ML architecture, engineering.
04 / Selected work

Building in the open.

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Modular IoT home automation. Inspired by HomeAssistant, tighter business logic, lighter weight. Water leak detection, Tesla Powerwall management, Ring security, Rachio irrigation.
Python
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Personal Claude Code plugin marketplace: skills, sub-agents, and slash commands for real-world engineering workflows.
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05 / Education

Where I studied.

Cornell University
MS, Electrical Engineering
Sage Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
Tata Fellowship · Salutatorian
06 / Contact

Let's build something.

Open to advisory conversations, technical deep-dives, or a good AI-vs-agent debate over coffee.

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