Pavan Vutukuru
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Robinhood
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavan Vutukuru is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems across advertising, e-commerce, and cutting-edge AI research. He has advanced experience in transformers, embeddings, recommendation systems, RLHF and post-training fine-tuning from roles at Liftoff, xAI, and eBay, and currently leads ML initiatives at Robinhood. His background spans full-stack and cloud platforms, computer vision and natural language understanding, grounded by a Master’s in Cognitive Science focused on ML and NLP. Early work in embedded systems and hardware-aware temperature sensing informs a pragmatic approach to latency, resource constraints, and deployment trade-offs. He has taught and mentored across academic and outreach settings, pairing research-driven modeling with hands-on production engineering. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, Pavan blends applied research with scalable delivery to turn complex signals into robust, user-facing ML products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Cogntive Science (Machine Learning Natural Language Processing), Master’s Degree Cogntive Science (Machine Learning Natural Language Processing) at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Specialization in Embedded Systems, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Specialization in Embedded Systems at Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering
Github Skills (3)
m-files10
mixing10
ocean9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
OceanMixingGroup/fcsFirmware
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
OceanMixingGroup/mixingsoftware
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
m-files used by the Ocean Mixing Group at OSU
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes in 5 years 5 months
mixingoceanm-filesosu
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