Harshit Surana
Founder at Chaos Genius
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHarshit Surana is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and teams from the ground up, currently leading OpenLocus to scale reliable LLMs to petabyte workloads and collaborating with the Allen Institute for AI on science-focused discovery. He co-founded high-impact startups (Chaos Genius, DeepFlux, Notify.io) that brought ML and data observability into production across Fortune 500 customers, and his DeepFlux signals powered revenue lifts for clients like Disney and Tata. An academic-trained researcher (MS, Carnegie Mellon) and inventor of widely cited ML algorithms, he co-authored a best-selling NLP book endorsed by leaders at Google, Microsoft and Amazon that’s used as a university textbook. Harshit blends research credibility with operator chops—selling a startup to Vivendi Havas and launching products showcased by Facebook F8 and Apple. He continues to advise startups across media, IoT and fintech while hiring engineers to tackle core AI reliability and scaling challenges. Notably, his work has been featured by major press and industry events, reflecting both technical depth and commercial impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Technology Computer Science, Bachelors in Technology Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate Thesis, Undergraduate Thesis at IIIT HyderabadMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (135)
python10
apply10
nlp10
risk-assessment10
cli10
saas10
natural-language-understanding10
agent10
natural-language-processing10
collections10
machine-learning10
language-processing10
service-level-agreement9
chatgpt9
unicorns9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
practical-nlp/practical-nlp-code
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Official Repository for Code associated with 'Practical Natural Language Processing' book by O'Reilly Media
Contributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 1 month
nlpnatural-language-understandingoreilly-bookslanguage-processingmachine-learning
suranah/practicalnlp-web
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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