Summary
Aditya Shastry is a Staff ML Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience specializing in NLP and machine translation, currently leading research-to-production efforts at Lilt. He has built large-scale, multi-region ML deployments and a central data repository housing ~10 billion parallel sentences across ~100 language pairs, enabling efficient training and storage for low-resource and multilingual models. His work includes notable domain adaptation for rapid hurricane warning translation with NWS/NOAA and a NAACL-awarded transformers-based automated review system for human-in-the-loop translation. Comfortable across the stack, he blends model research, LLM prompting, data warehousing, and localization productization, and has a pragmatic background in enterprise ETL and data engineering from earlier roles. An M.S. in Computer Science from UMass Amherst anchors his applied research ethos and penchant for building repeatable, production-ready ML workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science at P E S Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada