Leela Prabhu
Senior Software Engineer at Planet
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeela Prabhu is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems and distributed services, currently leading AI research at Planet after multiple engineering roles at Amazon focused on Alexa Shopping and AWS clean energy products. She combines deep academic training in AI and computer science from Southampton and Edinburgh with hands-on production ML experience—from credit model monitoring and time-series loss forecasting at Capital One to embedded ML prototypes during early internships. Comfortable spanning research and product delivery, she has repeatedly moved models into reliable pipelines and operational services at scale. Based in San Jose, she brings practicality to complex problems and a track record of translating academic techniques into production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of EdinburghMaster’s Degree Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree Artificial Intelligence at University of SouthamptonBachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (32)
drug-discovery10
biology10
discovery10
quantum-chemistry9
deep-learning9
chemistry9
science9
prediction9
espn8
hypothesis-testing7
statistics7
forecasting7
regression-models7
python7
dynamic-programming6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
schrodinger/schrodingerdeepchem
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
chemistryquantum-computingdeep-learningdrug-discoverydiscovery
leelaprabhu/Bayesian-Optimizer
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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