Nisheeth Golakiya
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNisheeth Golakiya is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Bengaluru with 9 years of industry experience and a strong 7-year track record in data science and production ML. He has built scalable, automated model pipelines at PayPal that handle datasets up to 11M rows and thousands of features, and has productionised propensity and biweekly scoring systems used by marketing teams across Venmo/PayPal. His background spans deep learning for object detection from aerial imagery, reinforcement learning for autonomous systems and warehouses, and practical transfer-learning solutions deployed as microservices. Comfortable across research and engineering, he combines PyTorch/PyTorch-Lightning, AutoML, Ray Tune and Docker to move models from prototype to robust services. Notably, he has experience fine-tuning Vision Transformers for content moderation and designing rapid model refresh pipelines that emphasize modularity and scalability. An IIT Roorkee computer science graduate, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on delivery of high-impact ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Github Skills (33)
customisation9
ring9
reinforcement-learning8
toolbox7
lime7
android7
android-app6
python6
pytorch6
simulator6
autonomous-driving5
chrome-extension5
algorithms4
data-science4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nisheeth-golakiya/Sound-Profiles
Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
First android app
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
android-appkotlinandroid
nisheeth-golakiya/hybrid-sac
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Single-file pytorch implementation of hybrid-SAC
Contributions:52 commits, 22 pushes, 3 comments in 1 month
pytorchreinforcement-learningsoft-actor-criticpytorch-implementationopenai-gym-environments
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