Summary
Niharika Pentapati is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of experience building production-ready AI systems across startups and enterprise teams. She has applied transformer models, information retrieval, knowledge graphs and MLOps to real-world problems like retail assortment intelligence, bot detection, and scalable backend services, delivering measurable cost and time savings for Fortune 500 clients. Her background blends research and engineering—published work on parallelized GANs and multiple academic projects—alongside hands-on experience with PyTorch, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and observability tooling. Currently at New Relic, she continues to bridge robust ML research with product-first deployments, and she’s driven by asking the right ethical and societal questions about AI’s impact. Notably, she has a history of shipping end-to-end systems from OCR and vision pipelines to hierarchical search and attribute normalization, showing a rare mix of model depth and systems engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at PES University
Android Controlled Robotics Workshop, Android Controlled Robotics Workshop at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
The Brigade School
Summer School on Advanced Machine Learning - Advances In Modern AI Machine Learning, Summer School on Advanced Machine Learning - Advances In Modern AI Machine Learning at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Deeksha, Bangalore
The City PU College, Bangalore
English, French, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada