Sushant Hiray

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in architecting AI solutions for enterprise applications.
Led development of advanced voice intelligence platform.
Proven track record in building scalable machine learning systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven solutions and data engineering.

Contact

hiraysushant@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Generative AiArtificial IntelligenceSystems DesignData Engineering

Other Skills

AIAI/ML algorithmsAlgorithmsApache SparkBig DataCC++CSSCassandraComputer ScienceData MiningData ProcessingData StructuresElasticSearchEmotion Recognition

About

Expert AI researcher & data science leader, Sushant has developed extensive experience of architecting AI solutions by incorporating latest advances in academia. Sushant is the Sr. Director of Machine Learning at RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) where he focuses on building the next generation Conversational Intelligence Platform. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO at DeepAffects, which was acquired by RingCentral. Prior to that, Sushant led the data engineering team at Lumiata. Sushant graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor degree in Electrical Engineering. He has been awarded various scholarships including National Talent Search, Named Scholarships in IIT Bombay. He also actively contributes to open source software and has been a Google Summer of Code Student as well as Mentor. Sushant's interests include : Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Open Source Software

Experience

Ringcentral

2 roles

Senior Director of Machine Learning

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Belmont, California, United States · On-site

LeadershipTechnical LeadershipGenerative AIMachine LearningSystems DesignStrategy+1

Director of Machine Learning

Dec 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Belmont, California, United States · On-site

Building the next generation Conversational Intelligence platform at RingCentral.
At RingCentral, I focus on -
1. Platform Scale - We are building the next generation, multi-tenant video conferencing platform.
2. Innovation at Scale - We are solving some unique and hard problems in making video conferencing tools smarter. My focus is on building the organizational culture and experimentation platform / tools that will empowers our teams to rapidly innovate at scale.
3. AI/ML at Scale - We are working on various state of the art AI/ML algorithms which will power the next generation of smarter video meeting experience.

LeadershipTechnical LeadershipGenerative AIMachine Learning

Deepaffects

Co-Founder and CTO

Mar 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) acquired DeepAffects
DeepAffects is a cloud-based voice intelligence platform driven by AI, for the enterprise to quickly integrate secure, scalable & highly accurate speaker identification, diarization, emotion recognition, and speech enhancement into the voice products. Led by a team of Artificial Intelligence & Signal processing researchers, DeepAffects is democratizing core AI technologies which enable the expanding voice economy.

LeadershipTechnical LeadershipSystems DesignArtificial Intelligence

Lumiata

Software Architect

Jun 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

Led the Data Engineering team for developing Morpheus: Simple, flexible, powerful streaming and batch data processing & machine learning platform at any scale
Slashed machine learning model serving time 10x by implementing a distributed high-performance serving system
Designed a cache layer to support incremental updates to secondary joins during streaming
Improved customer confidence during the on-boarding process by developing a distributed validator engine which deciphers anomalies in the data.
Initiated a strong tech culture by organizing weekly tech talks, mini hacks.
Improved the code quality using continuous integration, automated testing and code reviews.

C++Systems DesignData EngineeringMachine Learning

Google summer of code

2 roles

Project Mentor

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos

Guided my mentee in the entire timeframe of GSoC, starting from creating a strong proposal to designing his project and finally implementing it successfully.
Guided mentee to contribute effectively and he has since then become one of the core developers of the project.

C++

Summer Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos

Extend elementary functions in current existing API
Extensively used C++11 latest features while developing the class structure.
Implemented the following Modules:
> Trignometric Module
> Exponential Module
> Complex Module

C++

Morgan stanley

Summer Intern

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Porting an existing Excel Application to an angular.js web app.
Wrote api wrappers in scala to expose the core functionality with the web application.
Also gauged the possibilities of porting the existing excel apps into angular based web apps

C++

Web and coding club, iit bombay

Manager

Apr 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

Improved contribution to open source projects
Organized Hackathons in collaboration with GDG Mumbai and Yahoo
Conducted various programming contests.
Organized a Scratch Day for freshmen new to coding.
Organized talks/handson sessions on various web technologies and programming languages