Ashish Jhanwar is a Senior Applied Scientist and tech lead based in Hyderabad with a decade of experience building and productionizing ML features across customer service, search relevance, content moderation, segmentation and advertising. At Microsoft he has architected real-time inferencing frameworks, owned content filtering platforms for Bing, and scaled deep learning models across multiple verticals and languages while bridging researchers and engineers to make research production-ready. He combines hands-on skills in ML, NLP, conversational and generative AI with engineering expertise in Python, PySpark, Azure and real-time systems, and even has legacy experience with Microsoft’s SCOPE and Scala. Ashish mentors junior engineers regularly and has a track record of shipping robust monitoring and inference pipelines that catch live-site issues before they escalate. Beyond Microsoft work, he contributes to open-source projects like a widely used Discord bot backend, where he improved moderation features and fixed security-related dependency issues. His background includes an M.Tech from IIT Bombay, reflecting strong academic grounding paired with production-first execution.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering at University College of Engineering, RTU, Kota
Contributions:150 releases, 89 reviews, 201 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ashish contributed primarily to the backend of the Discord bot, making changes to the core functionality by bumping dependency versions to address security issues. They also worked on preventing the construction of cyclic data in templates and added support for new features. Moreover, the user implemented and maintained crucial aspects of the bot's moderation features.
Contributions:52 commits, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 14 days
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Ashish Jhanwar - Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft