Pratik Mehta
NLP research experience under my belt
Sharp SWE, enjoy making incisive cross-functional contributions, just ask my managers
Thoughtful builds, LLMs or otherwise
- Role
Sr.Software & Pytorch Engineer
- Years of Experience
5 years
Skillsets
- Gradio
- LangChain
- Postgres
- HTML
- Rustrover
- VS Code
- Streamlit
- SQL
- Scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- Python
- Git
- Docker
- Python
- Rust
- Qdrant
- pandas
- NumPy
- FastAPI
Professional Summary
5Years
- Jul, 2024 - Oct, 2024 3 months
Sr.Software Engineer
Scale AI via Outlier - Nov, 2020 - Jun, 20243 yr 7 months
Consultant, Machine Learning & GenAI
Deloitte Digital USI - Jun, 2018 - Sep, 2018 3 months
Research Assistant
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California - Aug, 2015 - Jul, 2016 11 months
Research Engineer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Work History
5Years
Sr.Software Engineer
Scale AI via OutlierJul, 2024 - Oct, 2024 3 months
Trained to provide qualitative and quantitative feedback on LLM produced code, API calls, and code, and was rated a top contributor.
Consultant, Machine Learning & GenAI
Deloitte Digital USINov, 2020 - Jun, 20243 yr 7 months
Designed & developed REST APIs using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Llama served over AWS to answer user questions about live quantitative enterprise KPI data for Beta testing by a few thousand users. Initiated a project to concretely evaluate LLM-in-the-loop systems using bespoke metrics. Developed use-cases and AI-adoption strategies for AI-aspirant enterprise clients.
Research Assistant
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern CaliforniaJun, 2018 - Sep, 2018 3 months
Studied correlation between different evaluation metrics for machine-translation in cross-lingual search engines.
Research Engineer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayAug, 2015 - Jul, 2016 11 months
Trained and deployed phrase-based statistical machine translation systems for English-Marathi and English-Indonesian using medical-domain textbooks. Designed an error analysis engine to identify and classify syntactic errors in translations, and developed a greedy algorithm for automatic post-editing, evaluated via BLEU scores and human evaluators.
Major Projects
3Projects
Sony Persona-Grounded Commonsense Reasoning challenge - API track
Tweaked prompts, API, and parameter choice to improve tool-calling accuracy for a videogame NPC agent.
Alfred: LLM powered dispatch of hyper-personalized notifications
Jan, 2024 - Jan, 2024
Developed a POC to track users plain-language notification preferences and notify them based on live-data.
LegalEase: Cross-lingual semantic search engine
Mar, 2023 - Mar, 2023
Developed an application that answers questions factually based on lengthy legal documents (now called RAG) as well as a multi-lingual semantic search engine for any-language-query to any-language-document retrieval. Was a finalist in the Semantic Search hackathon co-organised by lablab.ai.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst (2019)Bachelor of Engineering
D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, University of Mumbai (2015)