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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.

🇮🇳Chennai, India$60/hr100% JSS5.00 (7)Since Mar 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$4.1k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#7,840 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#952 / 45.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$777

Last 6 months: $24k

World#50,752 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#5,376 / 45.9k
Total earnings
$118k

Billed in all: $123k

World#32,070 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#5,189 / 45.9k
Per project
$8.5k

$4.1k in the last 6 months

World#19,573 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#2,077 / 45.9k
Projects, last 6 months
6

Across 7 contracts

86% fixed14% hourly
World#34,405 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#4,220 / 45.9k
Projects in all
14

Across 18 contracts

83% fixed17% hourly
World#168,283 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#23,126 / 45.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$123k+$777 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$122.0k$122.5k$123.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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