Chinmay Savadikar
Research Intern at Shopify
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChinmay Savadikar is a Ph.D. candidate and research intern with nine years of experience building and deploying deep learning systems, currently focused on continual learning, fine-tuning, and safety for large language models. He brings a strong applied computer vision background—delivering high-accuracy image recognition, object detection, and segmentation solutions—and has led end-to-end ML pipelines from data annotation and incremental training to cloud deployment and MLOps. At Persistent Systems he standardized model training and SDKs and produced production-scale workflows; at NC State he developed cloud-based semi-supervised annotation tools and image-to-global-coordinate algorithms for precision agriculture. Now at Shopify and previously advising in an interpretable visual modeling lab, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering (Docker, SageMaker, MLflow, W&B) to make research reproducible and deployable. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with creative interests in fiction, oldies rock, and football, reflecting a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, HindiProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
savadikarc/savadikarc.github.io
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:110 PRs, 265 pushes, 13 branches in 6 years 7 months
react
savadikarc/config-python
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Access yaml config as python classes
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
pythonconfig-yamlconfigclasses-pythongh-page-project
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