Niraj Pandkar is an Associate at Goldman Sachs with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and data engineering to solve real-world problems. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from San Jose State University and has published IEEE research on reconstructing faces from DNA, demonstrating a rare blend of academic rigor and applied ML. His projects include a viral Cartoonizer app that reached 150,000 users and practical engineering contributions to Magenta’s Sketch-RNN codebase, showing both product sensibility and open-source fluency. Niraj writes a thoughtful AI newsletter and brings end-to-end experience from data preprocessing and genomic pipelines to deploying scalable ML systems in production.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Data Scientist Nanodegree, Data Science, Data Scientist Nanodegree, Data Science at Udacity
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Magenta: Music and Art Generation with Machine Intelligence
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Niraj primarily focused on modifying the `sketch_rnn_train.py` file within the Magenta repository, likely related to the Sketch-RNN model. Their contributions involved addressing an attribute error caused by the `six` module and adding a parameter during the loading of a NumPy archive (`npz`) dataset. Furthermore, they cleaned up the code by removing commented lines and redundant conditional blocks for loading the dataset. These modifications suggest the user was working on improving data loading and potentially fixing bugs related to the model training process.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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