Summary
Pralay Ramteke is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Palo Alto Networks with 11 years of experience building production ML and data systems across security, healthcare imaging, and commerce. He holds an MS in Data Science and NLP from UT Austin and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Patna, and has a strong track record of applying transfer learning and attention-based NLP models to real-world problems. As a founding engineer at ChironX he developed multi-label fundus image models and a low-bandwidth image sync pipeline, and earlier work at IIT Patna produced a 4-million-sentence medical dataset and entity-severity models. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping annotation platforms, high-throughput deployments, and cloud data pipelines—with mentoring experience from Google Code-In, reflecting a blend of research depth and pragmatic product delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he enjoys tackling business challenges where ML and data engineering meet clinical or enterprise impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 92%, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 92% at Delta Junior College
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 3.3/4.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 3.3/4.0 at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
English, Hindi, Marathi