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APPLIED SCIENTIST & GOOGLE DEVELOPER EXPERT (GenAI)

High-impact Applied Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience researching and architecting distributed LLM pre-training frameworks, 4D/5D-parallel training pipelines, and low-latency GenAI inference infrastructure. Recognized Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Generative AI and Hugging Face Fellow with a proven track record of scaling foundation models across multi-node GPU and Cloud TPU clusters, accelerating inference throughput by 40%+, and reducing cloud compute costs by 50%. Deep expertise in PyTorch, JAX/XLA, sharded parallelism (DP, FSDP/ZeRO-3, TP, SP, PP, CP), linear-time O(N) sequence architectures, and production MLOps.


TECHNICAL SKILLS


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Zomato (Eternal) | Applied Scientist II (Research) | Sep 2026 – Present

IntelliTek Products Pvt. Ltd. | Software Engineer (Machine Learning) | Sep 2024 – Aug 2026

TensorLake Inc. | Machine Learning Engineer | Apr 2024 – Aug 2024

Dynopii Inc. | Machine Learning Engineer | Apr 2021 – Mar 2024

PrediQt Business Solutions | Senior AI/ML Engineer (Contract) | Jun 2023 – Nov 2023 (Concurrent)

TensorFlow (Google) | Google Summer of Code Contributor | May 2022 – Sep 2022 (Concurrent)

Celebal Technologies | Data Scientist Intern | Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 (Concurrent)


KEY PROJECTS & OPEN SOURCE

Jaxotron (4D/5D-Parallel LLM Pre-training & Inference Engine in JAX) | Creator

FireRequests (High-Performance Async Python Library) | Creator

AutoTrain Advanced (Hugging Face) | Contributor

AutoLGBM (Automated Tabular ML Library) | Creator


PUBLICATIONS


EDUCATION

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) | ESGCI, Paris | Expected 2028

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering | Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata | Graduated 2022


AWARDS & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP