Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Introduced performance tracking and inference improvements (3.5-4X p99) for multiple domains
• Updated automated training, testing, and deployment processes for Turo Search (1.4k RPM)
• Designed and implemented Python inference endpoint deployment for Risk and Safety
• Led demo development of LLM-based solutions for Customer Support and Company IP Assets
• Supported development of Kafka-based messaging for cross-domain Feature Store

Dec 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, California, United States

• Developed control systems and object recognition pipeline for MVP with real-time metrics
• Integrated scene understanding algorithms for detection (YOLOX) and tracking (Deep Sort)
• Managed and led team tasks from no product to 3 paid customers with 10+ locations

Jun 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Fremont, California, United States · On-site

• Implemented CV/NLP algorithms to guardrail biometrics (Face, Fingerprint, Voice) extraction
• Architected ML pipeline with quantization strategies using FaceNet-like embedding

Sep 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Implemented optical flow and segmentation to get accurate human body pose and fit
• Prototyped meshing algorithms for AR clothing trial product using CGAL (CPP) graphics

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed CV/ML algorithms for image segmentation and dense motion estimation for ATAP
• Designed backend pipeline and database system for logging and analytics
• Created dataset to train and test RNN models for image processing pipeline

Sep 2016 – May 2017 · 8 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Under the guidance of Prof. Girish Chowdhary, we work on algorithms and control system implementations for distributed and networked autonomous systems like drones.
• We create solutions to real life problems in agriculture and aeronautics.
• Develop reinforcement learning (Q Learning) solutions to drone situational problems.

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Los Angeles, California

• Introduced backend infrastructure of support feed rendering in Subscriptions on mobile app.
• Created a feature for Subscriptions recommended feed which has tens of millions of daily active users, completely revamping the way users see and use YouTube.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed Translation Memory for listings content on EtsyWeb leading to $600K savings for Etsy.
• Developed One-Click Translation conversation UX which produced a 1.44% conversion rate increase.
• Created a ML model for spam detection and conversation translation for all messages on Etsy.
• Designed pipeline for Auto deployinator for translation dump.

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• CodeU is a program for students to work on Android and technical exercises through pairing with Google mentors.
• Won Engineer's Choice Award for IVO, a content-to-geolocation locking app at the end of the program.

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos · Champaign, IL

• Developed a workflow for live auto captioning and creation of standard caption files for use in video editing, utilizing and enhancing Speech-To-Text HPC/cloud services and Sphinx NLP Library to create transcripts for people in DRES..

Nov 2013 – Sep 2014 · 10 mos · Research Park

• Cazoodle provides software and internet services for Web search, integration, and mining, with a central objective to "deepen" search on the Web to access the vast amount of data beyond the reach of current search engines. As a System Engineer, I was responsible for maintaining the overall enterprise IT infrastructure. While working at Cazoodle, I learned to manage and configure Hadoop server machines. It was also interesting to work on Linux as well as Windows to analyze DNS and LDAP network configurations.

Oct 2013 – Dec 2013 · 2 mos · School of Business

• As a Web Developer for the College of Business, I was selected to adapt the EMBA program website into a mobile responsive website through CSS by making dynamically responsive objects. Its was a great experience working on Drupal CMS and Wordpress too, while setting up the websites. I've also got to explore implemented HTML5 themes on the subsistence education portal of UIUC Business to enhance usability and legibility of the content on the page by designing content and article tabs for website.

Oct 2013 – Dec 2013 · 2 mos · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Promoted game building through code demonstrations and implementations.
• Engaged mentees on working on pre build Game Engine environments like Unity and Box2D.
• Designed coding modules to present good programming practices and gave lessons on game development.