Pavan Katta
Member Of Technical Staff at Salient
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPavan Katta is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale search, indexing, and AI systems, currently working on AI safety and text-to-speech models for voice agents at Salient in San Francisco. He was a founding engineer at Dashworks where he built petabyte-scale retrieval infrastructure that contributed to an acquisition by HubSpot, and previously worked on Bing search infrastructure at Microsoft. During a recent independent research sabbatical he produced mechanistic interpretability work—authoring an arXiv paper on scaling laws and feature superposition and developing AlphaSAE, a sparse-autoencoder tool that sped AlphaZero training 250x—which earned an Open Philanthropy research grant and a fellowship under Neel Nanda’s MATS. Trained at IIT Madras in Electrical Engineering, he blends production-grade systems engineering with deep, hands-on research into the internals of neural networks.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (6)
fine-tuning10
application10
llm10
vector-database9
gpt9
data-structures9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pavanyellow/TransformerLens
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
A library for mechanistic interpretability of GPT-style language models
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
pavanyellow/alpha-zero-general
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
A clean implementation based on AlphaZero for any game in any framework + tutorial + Othello/Gobang/TicTacToe/Connect4 and more
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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