Jash Parekh
Graduate Research Assistant
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJash Parekh is a machine learning-focused software engineer and researcher with 11 years of experience, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and affiliated with Google and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work bridges industry and academia, spanning autonomous vehicle data generation and evaluation at NVIDIA to multimodal reasoning and structured-knowledge integration in graduate research under Prof. Jiawei Han. He has a strong applied ML background in satellite imagery, climate modeling, and anomaly detection, having shipped production-focused models at Spatial Informatics and NASA projects. Jash combines hands-on engineering with statistical rigor—he has taught statistical modeling and contributed to cloud-scale data pipelines and AV evaluation tooling. Known for moving research into practice, he favors multimodal and structured approaches that make models more interpretable and robust in real-world systems. Outside core roles, he has continuously pursued cross-disciplinary problems (from weather physics to energy load optimization), reflecting a curiosity that informs both his research and engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Evergreen Valley High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gujarati, Spanish, English
Github Skills (89)
google-cloud-platform10
instagram10
python10
google-bigquery10
wordpress10
instagram-api10
api10
instapy10
python-requests10
fastest10
instagrapi10
instaloader10
woocommerce9
rainloop9
email-client9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wayfair-incubator/bigquery-buildkite-plugin
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Buildkite Plugin to create/update structures on BigQuery
Contributions:39 releases, 45 reviews, 32 commits in 1 year 9 months
gbqgooglegoogle-cloud-platformgoogle-bigquerybigquery
wayfair-incubator/cloud-functions-buildkite-plugin
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Buildkite plugin to deploy code to Cloud Functions
Contributions:2 releases, 20 reviews, 15 commits in 10 months
continuous-deploymentgooglecloud-foundrycloud-functionsgoogle-cloud-platform
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