Praveen Sridhar
Data Scientist 4
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Sridhar is a Data Scientist with eight years of experience building and deploying ML systems at scale, currently focused on AI agents and evaluation at Meta. He has driven product-facing ML work across companies like Citizen and Nextdoor—launching notification and video-ranking systems that measurably increased DAU/MAU and engagement—and has strong production experience on GCP/Vertex AI. His background spans end-to-end NLP and retrieval pipelines from research at Northeastern to practical fraud and churn models at Meta and Nextdoor, with hands-on expertise in transformer-based models, CLIP, and prompt engineering techniques. Notably, he combines research rigor (Roberta emotion detectors and semantic retrieval work) with pragmatic deployment practices—reducing inference time by 45% in academic projects and stabilizing offline-to-online model performance in production. Based in San Jose, he blends data science research and applied ML engineering to turn complex models into reliable, impact-driven systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (28)
mnist8
reddit5
sentiment-analysis5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
praw4
django3
tensorflow3
nlp3
squad3
text-classification3
classify2
ats2
transport2
javascript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PraveenKumarSridhar/PraveenKumarS
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Praveen Kumar Sridhar's Portfolio
Contributions:19 PRs, 69 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
reactjavascriptreactjssridharpraveen
PraveenKumarSridhar/metoo_research
Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
(Northeastern) Research on social media patterns surrounding MeToo movement
Contributions:2 PRs, 252 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
dataminingdata-sciencedata-miningmachine-learningpatterns
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