Summary
Mukul Surajiwale is a Staff Machine Learning Scientist with 11 years of experience designing and shipping end-to-end ML systems, currently applying his expertise at Etsy after leadership roles at Writer, Shopify, and HubSpot. He specializes in LLMs, multimodal information retrieval, and production-grade ML-Ops—building fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving stacks for real-world QA, search, and recommendation problems. Mukul has a track record of turning research into impact, from architecting a vision-based QA system to delivering anomaly detection and forecasting that monitored millions of signals daily. He combines deep technical chops in TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, and scikit-learn with product-oriented judgement, mentoring, and hiring experience. Outside work he channels curiosity into sailing and automotive projects, and his stated superpowers—curiosity, empathy, and integrity—drive pragmatic, societally-minded solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science Concentration in Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Computer Science Concentration in Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minor in Business, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minor in Business at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marathi, Hindi, English