Atabak Ashfaq
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAtabak Ashfaq is an applied scientist and Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft with a decade of experience building and evaluating large-scale ML and NLP systems. He holds an MS in Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon and has driven production ML across Azure GenAI, CoreAI, and GitHub Copilot post-training—specializing in evaluation, finetuning, RL, and prompt/backend engineering for OnYourData products. Prior to Microsoft he built end-to-end machine learning pipelines at Goldman Sachs focused on time-series, anomaly detection, and productionization on Hadoop. His work uniquely spans both model-centric research (NL2Code, in-context learning) and product-focused AI quality and safety for LLMs, contributing to commercial-grade GenAI features. Based in Vancouver, he pairs deep academic training with hands-on production expertise and a track record of moving research into deployable systems. Colleagues note his knack for translating complex evaluation metrics into practical safety and model-improvement workflows.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Master of Science - MS computational data science, Master of Science - MS computational data science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (13)
git8
github8
nlp7
quantization6
pytorch6
inference6
deep-learning6
patch6
transformer5
transformers5
large-language-models4
subversion3
language-model1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ashatabak786/ashatabak786.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ashatabak786/hello-world
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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