Summary
Sameer Darekar is a Lead AI Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with about 10 years of experience building scalable ML and data systems. He is currently leading AI initiatives at Aarki, specializing in LLMOps and production-grade AI deployments. Earlier, he directed ML and Data Science at Compulse after ZypMedia was acquired by Sinclair Broadcasting Group, bringing robust data pipelines to media analytics. His technical depth includes deploying CTR prediction models at scale with Aerospike (100k inferences per minute) and tackling imbalanced data with SMOTE, bootstrap sampling, and cost-sensitive learning. He holds a Master’s in Data Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a BE in IT from the University of Pune, and is based in Fremont, CA, where he translates complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Data Science (Computational and Analytical Track), Master’s Degree, Data Science (Computational and Analytical Track) at Indiana University Bloomington
Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi