Pranav Pawar
Founding Engineer at Multiply
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Pawar is a founding engineer and AI-focused product builder with eight years of experience designing and shipping intelligent systems from research to production in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led core ML and infrastructure work across startups and VC-backed teams—building CRM copilot features, knowledge-grounded generation, retrieval QA, and AI infra for Bain Capital Ventures. Trained in AI (MS, Northwestern) and grounded in engineering from IIT Madras, he blends deep NLP expertise (speech, relation extraction, knowledge graphs) with pragmatic MLOps and model optimization. As a tinkerer on GitHub and an R&D-minded builder, he favors end-to-end solutions that close the loop between models and customer-facing products. Notably, he has repeatedly joined early-stage teams as a founding engineer or fellow, signaling a strong bias for high-impact, ambiguous problem spaces. He pairs optimistic curiosity with a track record of turning research ideas into operational features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (92)
python10
datasets10
deep-learning10
flashlight10
transformer10
nlp10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
jax9
transformers9
language-model9
converter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pranavpawar3/GS-Quantify-2019
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
pranavpawar3/transformers
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
🤗Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for Pytorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
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