Sai Kumar Arava

Lead ML Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 11 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in machine learning solutions.
  • Proven track record with multiple patents.
  • Passionate about democratizing AI and ML.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven solutions for enterprise applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Generative AiDeep Learning

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalyticsBig DataC++Data AnalysisData MiningData ScienceData StructuresDebuggingDistributed SystemsHadoopJavaLinuxMapReduceNatural Language Processing (NLP)

About

As a Senior Machine Learning Manager at Adobe, I lead ML across different Adobe products. I have 15 years of experience in building and deploying machine learning solutions for multi-modalities using Generative AI and problems around content attribution, channel attribution, churn, conversion, and optimization. I am passionate about leveraging data to build intelligent systems that are available to masses. I work with product, engineering, and sales teams on technical features, pricing, scalability, value proposition, user experience, and product road map. I have a proven track record of innovation, with multiple patents and speaking engagements at industry events.

Experience

Adobe

6 roles

Senior Machine Learning Manager, Gen AI / ML Applications at Adobe

Promoted

Aug 2021Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Worked across Research, Applied AI, Software Engineering, Data , Infra, GTM , Product and Sales teams to ship the products to our customers. Worked with several large enterprise customers to help them achieve gains through AI & data.
  • Worked alongside Generative AI products at Adobe that power different clouds at Adobe.
  • Building Agentic workflows and Generative AI interfaces for several of Adobe's products.
  • Building agents that help marketers improve their productivity
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningData ScienceSoftware Development

Machine Learning Manager, AI/ML applications

Oct 2019Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Leading the customer engagement for Intelligent Services, Sensei that powers customer's journeys.
  • Responsible for understanding the business objectives of customers and translating them into our solutions, building the workflows for data ingestion and model building as well as consumption through APIs.
  • Working with product, engineering and sales team on technical features, pricing & scalability, value proposition, user experience and product road map.
  • Worked closely with large and medium enterprise customers such as NVIDIA, ESRI, etc., to facilitate them get the value from our AI based intelligent services as shown in the below links.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AINatural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningStatistics

Lead Machine learning Engineer

Apr 2019Oct 2019 · 6 mos

  • Leading the Beta program as well as the private preview program with Platform of intelligent services such as Attribution AI, Customer AI etc working with several enterprise customers
  • Responsible for customer engagement, onboarding new customers onto attribution both internal and external to adobe.
  • Built end to end machine learning pipelines that runs attribution on Adobe Analytics event data and delivers daily algorithmic attribution scores.

Senior Data Scientist Engineer, AI/ML applications

Jan 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Developed a deep learning based method for multi touch multi-channel attribution
  • Our work published in AdKDD 2018 :Deep Neural Net with Attention for Multi-channel Multi-touch Attribution
  • Working on Marketing attribution models to attribute conversions to media events like email, search and display marketing.

Machine Learning Engineer, AI/ML Applications

Mar 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • R&D statistical models / machine learning models for online advertising
  • Modeling data using discrete survival model on spark with distributed Logistic Regression on terabytes of user event data.

Algorithm Engineer

Dec 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Building statistical models and automating them to derive the elasticities for each spend and hence the optimum amount of budget to be allocated for each spend.
  • Develop and implement ad targeting models that use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for Search Advertising
  • Built intraday models that can help adjust the bids of the keywords according to the observed traffic in the day thereby optimizing on the bids in the near real time

Springboard

Mentor

Sep 2019Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Mentor for Machine Learning track at Springboard.
  • 1. Helped dozens of mentees from different disciplines and industries foray into the field of machine learning.
  • 2. Building amazing ML projects along side mentees based on the domain they are interested in.
  • 3. Thrilled to be part of democratizing AI / ML thereby empowering ML enthusiasts to provide value to society.

Paypal

Software Engineer

Jun 2012Nov 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Worked on data analytics, machine learning and visualization techniques to derive behavioral insights on PayPal's consumer data.
  • Worked on R&D projects in PayPal such as credit scoring, customer retention , fraud detection and customer pain path detection.
  • Worked on Classical statistical models such as regression, classification, survival, trees, regularization, ensemble models (boosting and bagging), causal modeling, Uplift (net lift; true lift; incremental response) modeling, Large scale parallel modeling with MapReduce, Clustering etc.,
  • Models development with Scala/Hadoop/Python/Java/R/SQL

Indian institute of science

Summer Research Fellowship

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Mechanism of online auctions with dynamic demand and dynamic supply

Education

Stanford University

Graduate Certificate — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2017Jul 2021

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Dual degree — Mathematics and Statistics

Jan 2007Jan 2012

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