Arun Sethupat
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolArun Sethupat is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems across Microsoft, TikTok, and currently Pinterest, blending research rigor with product-driven impact. He specializes in deep learning for question answering, conversational AI, and recommender systems, and contributed to a WWW 2018 research track paper that scaled QA pipelines from dozens to hundreds. His background spans applied research (GroupLens, Fraunhofer IAIS) and cloud-native engineering—including Azure, AWS, Kubernetes—enabling him to ship robust, scalable solutions from prototype to production. Comfortable across C++, Python, JavaScript and TensorFlow, he pairs strong engineering breadth with practical NLP and recommender expertise. Arun’s career shows a pattern of turning academic innovations into deployable services and optimizing pipeline selection with ML, an approach that drove measurable gains in QA and recommendation performance. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines startup-style agility with large-tech production discipline.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of MinnesotaXI - XII Maths Physics and Chemistry, XI - XII Maths Physics and Chemistry at Sri Gayatri Junior CollegeBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUpto X Standard, Upto X Standard at St Alphonsas High School
English, Hindi, Telugu, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
java9
docker-container9
ethereum9
cpp9
evm8
python8
windows6
windows-console6
termcolor6
question-answering4
methodology4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
arunsethupat/FB-Bot-Test
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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