Krishna Garikipati
Machine Learning Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Garikipati is a Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience translating applied research into production ML systems across computer vision, speech/NLP, time-series and real-time mobile applications. He has led and shipped recommender, ranking, and marketplace features at companies including Roblox, Quora, and Niantic, blending research rigor from a PhD with product-focused engineering. His background spans staff research roles and technical leadership, with hands-on work optimizing detection, classification, and sensor-driven models for scale and low-latency environments. Krishna’s career shows a pattern of improving user engagement through model-driven recommendations and churn prediction while keeping systems performant in live services. He holds a BTech from IIT Delhi and a PhD from the University of Michigan, bringing deep academic foundations to practical ML problems. Colleagues would note his cross-domain fluency—from mobile/real-time constraints to large-scale recommender pipelines—as a distinguishing strength.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (2)
computational-science8
multiphysics7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
mechanoChem/patternMorph
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
mechanoChem/shellMorph
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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