Alfred Rajakumar
Senior Staff Machine Learning (or AI) Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, United States
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Top SchoolAlfred Rajakumar is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products across startups and enterprises, currently leading ML efforts at Palo Alto Networks. He combines rigorous mathematical training from NYU with engineering depth from an IIT Madras dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics, enabling a rare blend of theory and production-grade systems design. His career spans healthcare research, consumer edtech, and embedded/retail applications, evidencing versatility in turning research prototypes into scalable back-end ML services. Notably, he has moved between academia and industry roles multiple times, bringing research-first thinking to pragmatic product delivery. Based in Chennai with US ties, he excels at bridging cross-cultural, cross-functional teams to ship impactful machine learning solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at New York UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
orgate/pycog
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Train excitatory-inhibitory recurrent neural networks for cognitive tasks.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
deep-learningrecurrent-neural-networksneural-networkscognitiveneural-network
orgate/GSoC_CERN_SFT
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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