Poornima Haridas
Angel Squad Member at Hustle Fund
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPoornima Haridas is an applied scientist and AI/ML researcher with a decade of experience building production-ready machine learning solutions and advancing large language model applications across industry and research settings. Currently at AWS and serving as an Angel Squad member for Hustle Fund, she blends hands-on LLM engineering with product-minded experimentation to turn data into actionable business insights. Her background spans senior data science roles at PepsiCo, research at NYU’s Courant Institute and Los Alamos, and early engineering work at Siemens, giving her deep fluency in both experimental research and enterprise deployment. Poornima holds a Master’s in Computer Science from NYU and completed a machine learning exchange at Politecnico di Milano, where she applied reinforcement learning in competitive challenges. Colleagues describe her as equally comfortable prototyping novel ML methods and translating them into scalable solutions—she often bridges academic rigor with measurable commercial impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) with Distinction Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) with Distinction Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreHigh School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at D. A. V. Girls Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai-86Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at New York UniversityStudent Exchange Program Machine Learning , Student Exchange Program Machine Learning at Politecnico di Milano
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
Github Skills (86)
chat10
deep-learning10
javascript10
slack10
jupyter-notebook10
nodejs10
pytorch10
css10
codebase10
math10
react10
zulip9
web-application9
bing-search9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UTpH/pytorch-Deep-Learning-Minicourse
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Deep Learning with PyTorch
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
deep-learningpytorchmachine-learning
UTpH/gpu_proj
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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