Anish Chelliah

Background

About Anish Chelliah

AI & Data Science expert with 6 + years of end-to-end product experience at Telstra—turning cutting-edge research (Gen AI, Transformer–MoE recommender systems, Siamese time-series networks) into high-impact production platforms. Possess a deep understanding of NLP, from classical topic modelling and BERT fine-tuning to retrieval-augmented generation and hallucination-detection techniques. Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable business value, including $2 M+ annual cost savings and ~3 800 staff-hours of efficiency gains per day, while earning multiple executive awards (CEO-selected “Best Innovation,” Annual Excellence, Quarterly Performance). Hands-on expertise in LLM evaluation & optimisation, MLOps on AWS/Azure/Kubernetes, and full-stack delivery—from low-latency React front-ends to scalable Spark/SageMaker back-ends. Recognised for rescuing a stalled $750 k project, leading cross-functional teams, and shipping 30 + zero-downtime releases in agile environments.