Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Lead, Research Engineering, and ML Engineering. Led the development of Masterclass Oncall from vision to launch. https://oncall.masterclass.com/
• I lead a team of 2 Research Engineers and 3 MLEs to build a post-training pipeline for conversational AI models.
• Our Research areas include...
• Continual Pretraining:
• Synthetic augmentation of small domain-specific datasets (1-10M tokens) for effective learning.
• Curation of large datasets (1B+ tokens) for thematic domain learning (like Soft Skills) to increase performance on multiple domains - safety, emotional intelligence, etc.
• SFT:
• Synthetic generation of long conversational datasets for specific personas
• Curation of datasets to improve model behavior.
• Safety:
• Synthetic generation of highly diverse conversational datasets for SFT
• Alignment training for improving safety.
• Synthetic data and training of small safety classifiers (like Llama-Guard) for online safety moderation.
• Eval:
• Synthetic benchmark datasets to measure factuality and conceptual understanding of knowledge datasets. Includes generation and curation steps.

Sep 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Working on Platform engineering problems and Sessions by Masterclass

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Empowering startups and SMBs to raise capital through crowdfunding

Mar 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco

• I started a totally free coding bootcamp to share my knowledge and love for programming with everyone. I teach Python programming, web development and data analysis for free at classes I organize through meetup.

Apr 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Ad Marketplace and auctions, SSP

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

Dec 2011 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Ad Serving Platform.

Jul 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• News team, at Bangalore India

Jun 2008 – Jul 2008 · 1 mo

• Interned in the Google News Team.

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• Interned in the Google MapMaker team.