Summary
Chhaya Choudhary is a Sr. Staff ML Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning solutions for cybersecurity and enterprise workloads. She holds an MS in Computer Science with a Data Science specialization from the University of Washington and has driven ML projects at Zscaler and Infoblox focused on malware detection, DGA classification, and zero-trust workload segmentation. Her work spans the full ML lifecycle—data exploration, cleaning, feature engineering, model evaluation and adversarial robustness research using autoencoders and GANs—and has led to multiple accepted publications in security-focused AI/ML. Known for tackling hard problems with complex structured and unstructured data, she blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering to move research into production. Outside of code, she actively contributes to the data science community through speaking engagements and professional organizations that support women in tech.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) with Specialization in Data Science Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) with Specialization in Data Science Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Banasthali University
High School PCM, High School PCM at Atomic Energy Central School
French, English, Hindi