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Senior ML Engineer → ML Researcher (in progress)
AI Governance @ Visa · LLM Internals · SLMs · NLP
- 🔬 Senior ML Engineer @ Visa — building AI Observatory, an internal platform to monitor & govern traditional ML models, GenAI apps, and agents across Visa
- 📐 Building toward a ML Research career
- 🎯 Core interests: decoding strategies, explainability in LLMs, small language models, ML in healthcare
- ✍️ Break things down at praful932.com
- 🕹️ Fun fact: I ran a game zone on my own computer when I was 12
- hmu
current_focus = {
"day_job": "AI Observatory — ML governance platform @ Visa",
"interests": ["SLMs", "decoding", "LLM explainability", "ML x healthcare"],
"hobbies": ["anime", "ukulele🎸", "books", "travel 🏖️", "calisthenics"]
}
past = {
"Prodigal (YC)": [
"ML engine for ProNotes — ~100k call summaries/day",
"finetuned LLMs (Llama, proprietary) for call understanding",
"NER model for healthcare PII redaction — +9% F1",
"human-connect classifier — +11% recall",
],
"stack": ["PyTorch", "AWS SageMaker", "Databricks", "Llama", "OpenAI"],
}- antibody-developability-abmelt — Antibody developability benchmark in collaboration with HuggingFace Science.
- llmsearch — Find better generation parameters for your LLM.
- Tf-Rec — Python package for building recommender systems on top of Keras/TF2 with GPU acceleration. Published to PyPI, with docs.
- Kitabe — Book recommendation system. Rate books, get instant recommendations.
- Machine-Learning-Implementations — ML algorithms from scratch: linear regression, neural networks, SVMs, PCA, collaborative filtering.
- Edutopia — Platform to connect students with mentors. Final project for CS50. Live here.
- EverythingEV — Electric vehicle ecosystem web app built for Smart India Hackathon 2020 (VMware problem statement). Live here.
