Srijan Bhushan
Data & AI Engineer · San Francisco
I design and ship production data and AI systems at scale. At Amazon Music I own the data pipelines and platforms behind 12 billion+ events a day, and build the AI agents and LLM-powered systems that run alongside them. Before that I built ML services at Oracle Cloud.
I also build things on my own to learn how they work. Most recently, that meant running an open-source language model on my Mac.
Latest
Oct 2, 2026
My first robot arm: Robotics 101 with the SO-101
From a box of parts to an arm that dances, reacts to a thumbs-up, and pushes a tomato into a hole. The steps, in plain terms, for anyone new to robotics.
Sep 20, 2026
What it’s actually like to run a small LLM on your own Mac
A 7.6-billion-parameter open model on an Apple M5 Pro: what it costs, how fast it is, what is inside the file, and where it gets things confidently wrong.