Dr. Kaustubh Vaghmare is a PhD in Observational Astrophysics. He has worked on observational astronomy, astronomical databases, serving astronomical data through web services and web applications. He has also published several papers studying the application of Artificial Intelligence to astronomical problems. After a rich academic career, he joined the industry where he has received wide recognition from both his customers and his colleagues for his solutions and consultancy in end-to-end Machine Learning, MLOps, GenAI, and LLMOps. He has also conducted several courses in topics such as Python programming, Machine Learning, Generative AI, MLOps, Statistics etc. in both academic and private education contexts. These courses have been received positively by students.