Abhishek Santhanam

Product Engineer

La Jolla Shores, California, United States5 yrs 8 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
  • Led projects in content moderation and recommendation systems.
  • Strong academic background with advanced degrees in Computer Science.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on FinTech and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningNatural Language Processing (nlp)Fintech

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Applied Machine LearningArtificial Neural NetworksC (Programming Language)C++Computer VisionConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)CricketData MiningData StructuresDeep LearningEconometricsEconomicsGen AI

About

I am currently working at EarnIn as a Machine Learning Engineer in the Payroll-ML team. I completed my master's degree in computer science with a machine learning specialization at UC San Diego in Dec 2024 where I worked on a new moisture of generative and discriminative paradigm for sequential recommendation under Prof. Julian McAuley. Prior to my masters, I worked as a research engineer at LinkedIn, where I worked in the trust data team to build content moderation defenses for the LinkedIn feed using deep learning and natural language processing techniques. I joined LinkedIn in July 2022, after completing a five-month applied scientist internship at Amazon, where I enhanced the search/query results in Amazon Music and Alexa, and helped provide information about a song in Amazon Disco, automatic podcast, using metadata derived from existing metadata. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where I was involved in several research projects and teaching assistant roles. I also have a strong background in statistics, natural language processing, computer vision, and neural networks, as evidenced by my multiple certifications from Coursera and my software engineering and applied scientist internship at Microsoft and Amazon. My goal is to apply my skills and knowledge to create innovative and impactful solutions for real-world problems.

Experience

5 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Earnin

2 roles

Machine Learning Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

PyTorchNatural Language Processing (NLP)Gen AIPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Machine Learning

Machine Learning Intern

Jun 2024Sep 2024 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Working in the Payroll team building ML models to identify paychecks from bank transactions.
FinTechNatural Language Processing (NLP)Applied Machine LearningMachine Learning

Uc san diego

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2024Dec 2024 · 3 mos · La Jolla Shores, California, United States · Hybrid

  • TA for CSE158 course in Recommendation system and web mining.

Instructional Assistant

Sep 2023Jul 2024 · 10 mos

Linkedin

Research Engineer

Jul 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Working in the trust data team building content moderation defences for the LinkedIn feed.
  • Previous worked in the content quality fairness team developing algorithms for bias measurement and mitigation for various modalities.
StatisticsMachine LearningComputer VisionNatural Language Processing (NLP)Deep Learning

Amazon

Applied Scientist

Feb 2022Jun 2022 · 4 mos · India

Indian institute of technology, madras

4 roles

Teaching Assistant

Oct 2021Dec 2021 · 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Teaching Assistant at the Centre for Computational Brain and Research, IITM to lead and conduct google colab based tutorials on CVI, ML, Speech recognition, NLP, and RL.

Undergraduate Researcher

Jul 2021Jan 2022 · 6 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Project-1: (six months UG Research Project)
  • o Built a novel model using a combination of two transformer-based models to encode the style of a professor and generated lecture transcripts on theoretical topics with the style of the professor.
  • o Secured the highest grade ‘S’ for my research contributions to the project.
  • Project-2: (six months UG Research Project)
  • o Working on a novel model to encode and generate the step-by-step process of creative writing

CS placement core

Promoted

Apr 2020May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • ○ Co-Headed a 4-tier team of 150+ coordinators to organize placements for 1500 students.
  • ○ Responsible for liaising with over 500 firms for opportunities in the field of Software Development and Machine Learning.
  • ○ Successfully completed 100% placements for the B.Tech and DD students of Computer Science students.

Deputy placement coordinator

Apr 2019Mar 2020 · 11 mos

Logistics innovation lab

Team Lead - ML/AI/CVI team

Aug 2021Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • ○ Team lead for the ML/AI/CVI team consisting of 8 members
  • ○ Developing products to extract vehicle and driver information from paperwork, detect unsafe driving, dynamically redirect vehicles based on factors like congestion, weather, and estimate ETA using Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

Microsoft

Software Devolpment Engineer Intern

May 2021Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • ○ Built an end-to-end automated Machine Learning tool leveraging Azure services like CosmosDB, Blob Storage, Logic App, Function App, and App Services using ML.NET and C#. The Logic App was used to migrate new data every 6 hours from the raw data source to a temporary data source. Using the new data the model was re-trained from the existing state to improve efficiency. Finally, it was exposed as a web API using App services and integrated with the existing Repair Tool product.
  • ○ ML tool was a great success with a 30% improvement in debug engineer’s efficiency.
  • ○ Learnt not just the real-life application of Machine Learning, but also the complexities around productizing a feature and integrating it with existing systems.

Iris news

Machine Learning Engineer

Feb 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • ○ Built a classification model using a fast incremental gradient method of logistic regression to improve clustering and some natural language processing techniques.
  • ○ The classification model was used after the clustering step to classify the articles in each group to be put into class buckets when used by the user. This model yielded significant improvements to the overall news article categorization goal with a near perfect test accuracy.

Unacademy

Education Mentor

Nov 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Student Mentor for 30+ students preparing for IITJEE, KVPY, and Olympiads.

Shaastra, iit madras

Event Coordinator

Jun 2019Apr 2020 · 10 mos

Friendloan technologies private limited

Internship Trainee

May 2019Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • ○ Learnt how to build a machine learning-based prediction model to predict the capability of a person to repay his loan using Java and MySQL.

Melvano education private limited

Internship

Feb 2019May 2019 · 3 mos

Avanti fellows

Mentor

Aug 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr · JNV school pondichery

  • ○ Mentored class XI students of the JNV Pondicherry for competitive exams such as KVPY and IITJEE.
  • ○ One of my trained students aced the KVPY examination with a rank of 883.

Education

UC San Diego

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Sep 2023May 2025

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2022

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