Abhishek Pratapa
Independent Research
San Carlos, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Pratapa is an independent researcher and engineer with 11 years of experience building production-quality software and machine learning tooling. He spent four years at Apple creating meaningful customer experiences and has since focused on research-driven projects from his base in San Carlos, California. As a back-end developer and ML engineer he contributed to Apple’s open-source Turi Create, improving data handling, visualization of heterogeneous data types, and implementing a core style-transfer component. Trained as a mechanical engineer at UT Austin, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to ML model engineering and data pipelines. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges practical product constraints with research curiosity, often surfacing subtle UX and data-quality improvements that aren’t obvious from code alone.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Telugu
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Github Skills (12)
machine-learning10
python10
style-transfer10
coreml10
tensorflow9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
c-language8
computer-vision8
object-detection8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apple/turicreate
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 160 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the development of the Turi Create machine learning library, focusing on improving data handling and visualization. Their commits involved enhancing data display, including handling of images and various data types within table views. They also implemented a core component for style transfer, including model definition.
pythondeep-learningmachine-learningcoremlmulticlass-classification
abhishekpratapa/abhis_world
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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