Anand Deshmukh
Staff Machine Learning Engineer Scientist at Block
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnand Deshmukh is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer and researcher based in Berkeley with a decade of experience building and leading AI efforts across finance, agriculture, and industrial R&D. He has driven generative AI and LLM research at American Express—spanning autonomous agents, chatbot guardrails, and RAG toolchains—and now applies that expertise to production ML at Cash App (Block). His background combines deep academic training (PhD in Systems Engineering) with hands-on systemization of models in PyTorch/TensorFlow, Databricks, and AWS to solve risk prediction, fraud detection, and large-scale computer vision problems. Anand’s career shows a pattern of moving research into production at scale, from million-image remote sensing pipelines at Bayer to enterprise-grade LLM deployments in financial services. Notably, he blends classical optimization and prescriptive analytics experience with cutting-edge generative AI, making him effective at both model innovation and operational delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
andydesh/andydesh.github.io
Oct 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
rulerhostedperfectsitesportfolios
anandeshmukh/nilm
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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