Ishan Vashishtha
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolIshan Vashishtha is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building and shipping ML systems at scale across companies like Apple and PayPal. He spans the full ML lifecycle—from large-scale data processing with Spark and Pandas to streaming with Kafka and model development in PyTorch—bringing both hands-on engineering and system architecture expertise. Known for leading complex cross-team initiatives, he has a track record of turning research and prototype work from his CMU background into production-grade solutions. His career blends deep software engineering roots (Yelp, embedded systems at Dolby) with specialized AI roles, giving him a practical edge in deploying and maintaining models in demanding environments. Beyond core ML, he often tackles the integration and operational challenges that make models reliable in production, not just performant in the lab.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information and Communication Technology at DA-IICTMaster's Degree Information Technology - Mobility, Master's Degree Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGithub contributions (2)
cmusv-sc/Ericsson-Similarity-INI-Practicum-Fall2015
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits in 1 month
shrimalmadhur/SmartServer
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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