Praveen Sridhar
Co-Founder at Sopa Claims
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolPraveen Sridhar is a machine learning engineer and repeat founder with 12 years of experience designing and productionizing language-focused ML systems for startups and enterprises from Mumbai. He co-founded Catapult Technologies to deliver pragmatic AI and data-science solutions and now co-leads Sopa Claims, blending product-first thinking with technical ownership. His background includes impact-driven work at BCG on pricing and propensity optimizers that delivered measurable uplifts, and early-stage roles where he built core NLP and information-extraction models that improved conversions and reduced support time. Praveen also brings teaching and fellowship experience—mentoring tech leaders and running 100+ workshops—which complements his hands-on engineering approach. Notably, he has roots in open-source and Indic language tooling from a Google Summer of Code project, reflecting a long-standing focus on language technologies beyond typical enterprise NLP.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Tech Leaders Program, Machine Learning, Tech Leaders Program, Machine Learning at Plaksha UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (25)
angularjs10
javascript9
interactive9
angular9
appengine9
react8
gaia8
python8
branches8
typescript8
gecko7
ibm-cloud5
gradle4
java4
sdk4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
psbots/caspowebsite
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:22 PRs, 55 pushes, 39 branches in 3 months
CopraML/copraMLAppPrototyper
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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