GokulaKrishnan M.
AI for Computational Biology | Protein Design & Bio-ML Deployment
I help biotech and research teams get bio foundation models out of notebooks and into fast, reproducible, cost-efficient production: structure prediction, protein language models, and molecular generation on GPUs you control. WHAT I DO 1) Protein design pipelines: AlphaFold 3, RFdiffusion, BindCraft. Setup, batching, design → filter → validate loops, GPU cost tuning 2) Bio-model deployment: take a model from a paper or GitHub repo to a scalable, reproducible service on AWS, Modal, RunPod, Lambda Labs or Baseten 3) ML on biological and clinical data: fine-tuning, classification, medical and biological imaging 4) Scientific tooling: LLM agents and RAG over papers and lab data, internal tools for research teams RELEVANT WORK • Crowned "Data Warrior" champion (HackerEarth × Delhivery): X-ray image classification at 63% accuracy against 45% for second place, featured in The Economic Times • Supporting a computational-biology platform client with technical scoping and grant work • Fine-tuned speech recognition for Parkinson's patients on clinical speech data • Winner of a species image-classification challenge, invited to present at the University of Geneva • Backend engineer at Epocrates (Athenahealth), building clinical software used by healthcare professionals WHY TEAMS HIRE ME For years I've taken frontier models into production at scale: vLLM, llama.cpp, Ray Serve, GPU self-hosting, fine-tuning, and low-latency serving. I ship end to end on my own, from model to backend to the app on top. I love building MVPs of emerging technology, and biology is where the most interesting models are being released right now. • $100K+ earned, 900+ hours, all five-star reviews, repeat clients • Published at top-tier conferences • fast.ai international fellow, alumnus of the Udacity–KPIT autonomous scholarship • Co-founder of eloop.ai (vision-based autonomous systems) WHAT CLIENTS SAY ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "One of the best ML engineers out there. I highly recommend if you are looking for speed, creativity and execution all in one." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I had the pleasure of working with Gokul and cannot recommend him highly enough." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Gokula delivered yet another impressive project. It's always such a smooth experience working with him." If you have a model that works in a paper but not in your pipeline, or a design workflow that's too slow or too expensive, message me. I usually reply within a few hours.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $24k
Billed in all: $122,873$123k
$4.1k in the last 6 months
Across 7 contracts
Across 18 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 15
Rarest: top 0.16% in Biology, of 626. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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