Prateek Jain is a Machine Learning Engineer with seven years of experience combining academic rigor—an MS in Computer Science from Columbia with a thesis in causal inference—and industry impact at companies like CRED, Zillow, and now DevRev. He has built production ML systems that boosted engagement (20% CTR lift) and delivered pragmatic retention models, and at Zillow led multimodal LLM fine-tuning and a game-theoretic conversational agent achieving 82% task accuracy. His background spans research and applied ML, from a DRDO paper on satellite-object detection to an Adobe internship that produced a cost-saving RL scheduler and a filed patent. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved UX and front-end robustness in notable projects such as Rocket.Chat’s React Native client and the p5.js creative coding library. Awarded top honors at IIT Dharwad, he pairs intellectual curiosity with hands-on engineering to tackle Search & Discovery challenges in the SaaS space from his Austin base.
Contributions:19 commits, 38 PRs, 159 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to the Rocket.Chat React Native mobile client, focusing on UI/UX improvements and bug fixes. Their commits included refactoring UI components, addressing issues in thread previews, and implementing new features such as saving videos. The user also worked on improving user interactions, such as making links clickable and incorporating features like direct messaging from the user info page.
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to the `p5.js` library by addressing issues related to the `dom` module, specifically the `createRadio` and `createCheckbox` elements. Their work involved modifying the DOM structure, updating the way radio options and checkboxes are created and handled. The user also added unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the implemented changes.
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