Career & Chronology

Production ML, agentic systems, and chronological milestones.

Engineering and advisory leadership across Uber, Afterdays, Bordo AI, Faire, Twitter (X), and Meta—plus academic credentials and multi-year dispatches.

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Industry & Research Roles

Engineering & technical leadership

Apr 2025 – Present
Uber
San Francisco, CA

Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead — Rider Personalization & Ranking)

End-to-end technical lead for global rider personalization and ranking pipelines serving millions of daily riders across 500+ cities.

  • Architected multi-task Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) ranking, calibration, and cross-vertical user representation foundation models trained on distributed NVIDIA A100/B200 GPU clusters.
  • Built 0→1 internal agentic developer tooling—including a Ranking Explainer Agent with automated reward-signal graders and an Experiment Config Automator—accelerating ML experimentation velocity.
2015 – Present
Afterdays
San Francisco Bay Area

Principal AI Strategist, Educator & Advisor

Independent AI advisory, corporate education, developer content, and global keynote practice partnering with 30+ enterprises, AI startups, and venture funds.

  • Advised and consulted across Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Anthropic, Amazon Fresh, Spotify, Adobe, Grammarly, Figma, Atlassian, Coinbase, Remitly, Superhuman, Windsurf, Base44, Diem AI, Bezoku AI, Okareo, Optica Labs AI, BackOps AI, Founders Circle Capital, and Capital Hill Ventures.
  • Delivered hands-on AI architecture & agentic engineering programs reaching 50,000+ engineers and leaders across LinkedIn Learning, Morgan Stanley, FedEx, Accenture, Roblox, SVSG, and 200+ global stages.
Jan 2024 – Mar 2025
Bordo AI
San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Engineer, AI & Research

Architected a 0→1 provider-agnostic enterprise conversational AI and agentic data analytics platform.

  • Designed multi-LLM orchestration across Claude, Gemini, and GPT using LangGraph, custom RAG pipelines, and hybrid vector + Redis state stores deployed across 25+ organizations.
  • Established evaluation harnesses, latency budgets, and hallucination guardrails for enterprise business intelligence workflows.
May 2023 – Jan 2024
Faire
San Francisco, CA

Senior Data Scientist — Feature Store & Ads Bidding (0→1)

Built foundational marketplace ads prediction, feature infrastructure, and bidding calibration.

  • Engineered real-time impression-level feature store pipelines and a calibrated XGBoost bidding engine with Bayesian cold-start smoothing (+20% ROC-AUC, +40% PR-AUC), alongside a marketplace monetization simulator.
Jan 2019 – Apr 2023
Twitter (X)
San Francisco, CA

Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Ads Ranking, Feature & Serving Infrastructure

Owned billion-request/day ads click and conversion ranking models and real-time feature serving under strict sub-50ms SLAs.

  • Led dynamic feature hydration infrastructure, TwHIN graph embedding integration, and post-ATT privacy-preserving serving architectures achieving a 70% infrastructure cost reduction.
  • Founded the Women@ML Business Resource Group and mentored engineers across ads ranking and cortex ML teams.
2018
Meta (Facebook)
Menlo Park, CA

Software Engineer — Ads Signal Monitoring

Built real-time statistical anomaly detection systems on live Facebook Pixel conversion streams.

  • Automated high-throughput signal integrity alerting across advertiser conversion pipelines.
2015 – 2018
San Diego Supercomputer Center · Cornell/Maryland/Max Planck (CMMRS) · IRD Paris · NRC Canada · GSoC
San Diego · Saarbrücken · Paris · Ottawa

Early Research & Open Source Engineering

Cross-disciplinary research in computer vision, agent-based ecological modeling, and computational social networks.

  • Selected on full scholarship among Top 30 globally for the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) at MPI-SWS in Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Automated histology brain-atlas image annotation at SDSC; CORMAS spatial agent-based modeling in Pharo Smalltalk at IRD Paris (ESUG Scholar); kinetic Monte Carlo social simulation at NRC Canada (Government of Canada Mitacs Globalink Research Scholar).
  • Awarded competitive international research and conference grants by the Government of Canada (Mitacs), Government of Norway, The Linux Foundation, and Facebook (Grace Hopper Scholar); two-time Google Summer of Code developer & Organization Administrator.
Academic Credentials

Education & scholarships

2017 – Dec 2018
M.S. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Specialization)

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) ↗ · GPA 3.9 / 4.0 · Graduate Teaching & Research at San Diego Supercomputer Center

Academic
Aug 2017
Pre-Doctoral Research School in Computer Science

Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) ↗ · Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Saarbrücken, Germany · Full Scholarship (Selected among Top 30 globally)

Academic
2013 – May 2017
B.Tech. in Computer Engineering

Delhi Technological University (formerly DCE) ↗ · GPA 9.3 / 10.0 (Top 5%) · Conferred Distinguished Alumni — Young Achiever / Young Trailblazer Award (2025/2026)

Academic
Historical Ledger (2017 – 2026)

Keynotes, awards & launches

Oct 2026

Delivered invited talks across Europe and the US—Codemotion Milan, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe (Prague), AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe (Amsterdam), and Tech Fuse DSM. View →

Speaking
Jul–Aug 2026

Featured in Google's official launch video for Gemini Omni Flash, surpassed 44,000+ learners across 4 LinkedIn Learning AI courses, moderated Goanna Builders Day (with Anthropic, ClickHouse & Temporal), served as AI Ambassador at RAISE AI Summit (Paris), and reviewed O'Reilly Media's Scalable AI Systems. View →

Launch & Education
Apr–May 2026

Keynoted Driving AI (Danish Society of Engineers, Copenhagen), profiled in Google Cloud Tech's AI Racing Coach documentary, led SVSG Create 2026 live AI workshop at Roblox HQ, and spoke at Google Cloud Next '26, API Days New York, Milan0day, and the GDE Conference. View →

Keynote & Media
Mar 2026

Featured in Communications of the ACM ('Rethinking the Stack: AI-Native Operating Systems and Tools') and joined AWAAI's Innovate & Advance fireside chat on evaluating AI agents. View →

Press
Jan–Feb 2026

Conferred Delhi Technological University's Distinguished Alumni Young Achiever / Young Trailblazer Award and co-authored 'Enterprise LLM Deployment Readiness' on SSRN via the AI Assurance Council. View →

Honor & Research
Jan 2026

Spotlighted on the Google for Developers Blog ('Beyond the Chatbot: A Blueprint for Trustable AI') and quoted in Forbes ('Conversational Video AI—Teaching Machines The Art Of Being Human'). View →

Press & Google
Oct–Dec 2025

Named a DigiLeaders AI 100 UK Award Winner in London and AI Dev Summit Innovator of the Year, attended Google's invite-only AI Community Summit in Bali, and profiled in a CreativePro feature Q&A. View →

Recognition
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May–Aug 2025

Featured on Google Developers' AI Agent Bake Off (S1E1), profiled in Business Insider on ML engineering careers, and spoke at Linux Foundation's AI_dev Europe & Open Source Summit NA. View →

Media & Speaking
Apr 2025

Joined Uber as Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead — Rider Personalization & Ranking) in San Francisco and launched 'Hands-On AI: Building Agents with Google ADK' on LinkedIn Learning. View →

Career
Mar 2025

Featured in Business Insider on Big Tech career strategy and honored with the AI 2030 Women in AI Leadership Award. View →

Press & Award
Aug–Sep 2024

Quoted in Observer on synthetic data and model collapse, interviewed by the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) on medical image bias, and featured in Grazia Daily UK. View →

Press
May 2024

Featured on the Google I/O 2024 main keynote stage—introduced by Sundar Pichai—sharing insights on Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1-million-token context window. View →

Keynote
May 2024

Appointed to the Google Developer Advisory Board (gDAB) to advise Google engineering and DevRel leadership on AI and developer platforms. View →

Advisory
Mar–Apr 2024

Contributed expert commentary to the MIT Sloan Management Review × BCG enterprise AI study; spoke at Google Cloud Next '24 and Open Source Summit North America. View →

Press & Speaking
Jan 2024

Ranked among Sessionize's Top 3% Speakers globally (3× Most Active Speaker) and featured as an AI & search expert in Diem's 'State of Search' report. View →

Recognition
2023

Honored among Women Impact Tech's Top 50 Women of Impact in the US, spotlighted on the Google Developers Blog, quoted in Techopedia & IBC on deepfakes, and named an Engatica Top 50 ML Expert. View →

Press & Honors
Sep–Nov 2022

Interviewed live on NTD TV and Ticker News Australia; conferred R&D Engineer of the Year (Rise Awards London), Next Generation Leader of the Year (Women in IT NYC), Innovator of the Year (Empowering Women in Industry), and ISG Rising Star. View →

Press & Awards
Jul–Aug 2022

Awarded VentureBeat's Women in AI Rising Star (Transform) and Women in AI North America's Young Role Model of the Year; joined O'Reilly Media as Technical Book Reviewer. View →

Recognition
Jan–Apr 2022

Published misinformation & deepfakes research chapter in Springer's Studies in Big Data, spoke at PyCon US (Salt Lake City), and hosted the Enterprise AI track at RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit. View →

Publishing
2021

Published first book 'Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning' (foreword by Julian McAuley), selected as a Google Developer Expert in ML, spoke at LeadDev Live, and won Gradle's DevProdEng Showdown. View →

Book & GDE
2018–2020

Joined Twitter (X) Ads Ranking ML in San Francisco, served 3 years as PyCon US Financial Aid Co-Chair (Python Software Foundation), spoke at Data Innovation Summit Stockholm, and judged Draper University Pitch Day. View →

Leadership
2017

Conferred the Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award in Boston, selected among Top 30 globally on full scholarship for the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) in Saarbrücken, named a Facebook Grace Hopper Scholar, featured in two UN ITU documentaries, and interviewed on SiliconANGLE theCUBE. View →

Recognition