# Raja Karthik Palakurthi

> Personal website of a Research Engineer and founding member of ZenteiQ.ai, formerly a Project Associate at AiREX Lab, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

These pages describe general engineering interests, not internal company products, proprietary designs, customer systems, or unpublished performance results.

## Main pages

- [Home and professional background](https://rajakarthik.com/): Research, experience, technical areas, and personal contact link.
- [Inference and performance](https://rajakarthik.com/work/inference-systems/index.md): Engineering considerations behind responsive and dependable language-model applications.
- [Language model evaluation](https://rajakarthik.com/work/foundation-models/index.md): Understanding instruction following, multilingual behavior, and where model outputs fall short.
- [Agent reliability](https://rajakarthik.com/work/agent-runtimes/index.md): Practical questions about tool use, recoverable workflows, and human oversight.
- [Context and retrieval](https://rajakarthik.com/work/memory-retrieval/index.md): How assistants find relevant information without losing provenance or user control.
- [Reliable AI services](https://rajakarthik.com/work/api-platform/index.md): Software engineering principles for clear, observable, and maintainable AI applications.

## Public identity references

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/palakurthirajakarthik/): Personal professional profile.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/palakurthiraja1): Personal code profile (handle: rajakarthik).
- [AiREX Lab at IISc](https://airexlab.cds.iisc.ac.in/alumni/): Official alumni listing.
- [AiREX Lab team page](https://airexlab.cds.iisc.ac.in/meet-our-team/): Official lab team listing.
- [ZenteiQ.ai](https://zenteiq.ai/): Organization website.

## Optional

- [Extended portfolio overview](https://rajakarthik.com/llms-full.txt): One-file summary of the public portfolio content.