Bhavnick Minhas
Co-Founder at Chonkie
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBhavnick Minhas is a machine learning engineer and Co-Founder based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building and optimizing NLP systems for product and research settings. Trained at IIT Guwahati and with research published at ACL workshops, he specializes in inference optimization, semantic search, and applying LLMs to finance, with hands-on experience training models for summarization, NER, QA and more. His background includes industry roles at stealth startups, HPE and Oracle, and a notable research internship benchmarking multilingual tabular NLI across ten languages. Bhavnick pairs deep engineering chops—optimizers and kernel-level thinking are his passions—with a researcher’s rigor, evidenced by his high-accuracy practical deployments (e.g., a Marathi→English translator outperforming baseline BLEU). He blogs about AI and product experiments and brings an unusual combination of production-focused model tuning and curiosity-driven research to early-stage ventures.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Step By Step World SchoolSpring 25, Spring 25 at Y CombinatorBTech - Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communications Engineering, BTech - Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Hindi, English, Japanese
Github Skills (151)
transformers10
chunking10
vector-search10
language-model10
sentence10
python10
etl10
eve10
deep-learning10
text-processing10
machine-translation10
multilingual10
multimodal10
nmt10
generative-ai10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chonkie-ai/chonkie
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
🦛 CHONK your texts with Chonkie ✨ - The no-nonsense RAG chunking library
Contributions:12 releases, 5 reviews, 202 PRs in 4 months
aichunkingetlnlppython
OptimalFoundation/nadir
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Nadir: Cutting-edge PyTorch optimizers for simplicity & composability! 🔥🚀💻
Contributions:5 releases, 48 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 4 months
adabeliefadam-optimizeradamaxadampadamw
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