Alok Parlikar
Director Of R&D at Cobalt Speech & Language
Thane, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAlok Parlikar is a Director of R&D with 16 years of experience building speech and language technologies, currently leading research and engineering at Cobalt Speech & Language while also running his research outfit, Brruwee Labs. He holds an MLT and PhD in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon and has applied that expertise at Amazon’s speech group, contributing to consumer products like Echo and authoring patent filings. Comfortable bridging research and product delivery, he has advanced projects from acoustic and language models to deployable systems and team leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical improvements to the Pyjs project—fixing cross-browser HTTPRequest issues and adding multi-processing build support—demonstrating attention to compatibility and developer ergonomics. Based in Thane, India, he blends deep academic training with hands-on engineering, often favoring robust, maintainable solutions over quick fixes. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who keeps long-term system health front and center.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, SSC at Vidyaniketan (Dombivli)HSC, HSC at SIES College of Arts, Science, CommerceB. Tech, Information Technology, B. Tech, Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information TechnologyMLT, Language Technologies, MLT, Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
French, Japanese, Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, English
Github Skills (10)
google-closure-compiler10
python10
python-multiprocessing9
multiprocessing9
multi-process9
javascript8
command-line-interface8
css7
html7
ui-design6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pyjs/pyjs
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Pyjs canonical sources. Start here!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alok made several contributions to the Pyjs project, primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality and maintainability. They addressed compatibility issues with Internet Explorer 9 by fixing ActiveX errors in the HTTPRequest module. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the project's build process by adding multi-processing support and integrating command-line options for easier use. They also added a new option for a dialog box design.
pythoncanonicalsourcesstart-here
happyalu/Flite-TTS-Engine-for-Android
Mar 2010 - Jan 2017
Port of the Festival-lite (Flite TTS) speech-synthesis engine to Android
Contributions:115 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 6 years 11 months
synthesisandroidspeech-synthesisflitelite
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