Pratyay Banerjee
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolPratyay Banerjee is a Machine Learning Engineer and Research Software Engineer with seven years of experience building applied ML, NLP, IR and MLOps solutions that have reached over 1.5M users globally. He combines academic rigor—collaborations with BU, MIT, IITs and a Master’s focus on HCI—with hands-on product delivery, from low-latency big-data pipelines to real-time pose estimation and GDPR-compliant on-device vision demos for TensorFlow/MediaPipe. A two-time US-patent holder and generative-AI practitioner, he has led projects across nonprofits and startups (e.g., a WhatsApp health bot impacting ~55K users) and currently splits time between ARTPARK’s blitzscaling efforts and research at Boston University. An active open-source contributor, his work spans documentation for Google’s Flax and UI/UX improvements for Layer5 and Meshery, reflecting a knack for making complex systems more usable and performant. Known for winning 80+ hackathons across top universities, he pairs an experimental, product-minded approach with Agile practices to ship scalable, cost-efficient AI systems.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering at Jadavpur University
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
service-mesh-performance/service-mesh-performance
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Standardizing Cloud Native Value Measurement
Role in this project:
Front-end & UI Developer
Front-end & UI DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 63 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pratyay focused on enhancing the user interface and experience of the project's documentation. Their contributions primarily involved modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files related to the website's layout and visual elements. They implemented features like a "back-to-top" button, a scroll-down arrow, and an infinite carousel for contributors, and also made adjustments to spacing and padding for improved visual presentation and mobile responsiveness.
management-planeservice-meshservice-mesh-performancesmpperformance-benchmarks
meshery/meshery.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Website for Meshery
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pratyay primarily contributed to the website's front-end development, focusing on UI improvements and enhancements. They made several changes to the `_includes/partials/contributor.html` file, modifying the display of contributor images and status indicators. Additionally, they added and styled a full calendar on the community page, integrated calendar functionalities, and refined the overall page layout, showing a focus on the user interface and presentation. The changes suggest they were working on layout and component styling.
ui-developmentmulti-mesh-managerfront-endcloud-native-managementdocker
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