Nikhil Sapru
Product Manager (AI Platform Engineering)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Sapru is a product manager specializing in AI/ML platform engineering with a decade of cross-industry experience and 5+ years focused on building machine learning products from 0-to-1 through enterprise scale. He has led ML platform strategy and execution at financial and mobility firms, cutting model development time by 30% and boosting user retention by 70% through targeted user research and feature prioritization. Comfortable bridging deep technical knowledge in ML with stakeholder-driven roadmaps, he defines OKRs, PRDs, and standardized reporting to align engineering, design, and executive priorities. His background spans hands-on data science and research (including translation and sentiment models) as well as earlier reliability engineering that delivered six-figure operational savings, giving him a rare combination of product, research, and operational rigor. Based in San Francisco, he has repeatedly validated product-market fit via extensive customer discovery and pilot launches across industries. He is known for turning empirical user insights into measurable platform adoption and delivery metrics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science (MASc) Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Master of Applied Science (MASc) Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing at University of GuelphToronto Metropolitan University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kashmiri
Github Skills (32)
data-stream10
realtime10
pinot10
apache10
datastore10
java10
apache-flink9
apache-pinot9
big-data9
olap9
serialization7
kryo7
okta-api7
text-mining6
scala6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilsu/Resume
Oct 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years 4 months
nikhilsu/Deception-Detection
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
A ML model to detect deceptive(fake) Hotel and Electronic reviews
Contributions:5 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
detectelectronicmachine-learning
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