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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 Outlier
Jul, 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 USI
Nov, 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 California
Jun, 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 Bombay
Aug, 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)