Ahsaas Bajaj
Machine Learning Tech Lead - Applied AI at Instacart
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAhsaas Bajaj is a Machine Learning Tech Lead and applied AI researcher with a decade of experience designing and shipping large-scale recommendation, retrieval, and personalization systems under strict latency and scale constraints. At Instacart he led the engineering and research behind personalized replacements and fulfillment intelligence that moved metrics cited in shareholder letters—supporting hundreds of millions of annual replacements with satisfaction rates above 95% and tangible multi-million-dollar retention impact. He combines academic rigor from UMass Amherst and industry experience at Samsung R&D and Walmart Labs to create original methodologies for high-cardinality decision spaces and production-grade ML. Ahsaas has a track record of turning research into deployed systems—co-inventing a patented substitution ranking approach and building an LLM-based evaluation framework that achieved 82% human agreement and dramatically reduced QA cycles. Based in New York, he now focuses on blending generative AI with traditional recommender techniques to power hyperpersonalized product experiences and marketing agents.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstHigh School, High School at Rosary Senior Secondary School
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
jax9
flax8
seq2seq8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bajajahsaas/Abstractive-Summarization
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:264 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
bajajahsaas/readinglist
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 6 months
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