Punit Vara
Staff ML Engineer at Visa
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPunit Vara is a Staff ML Engineer with 11 years of engineering experience and over 8 years focused on building and scaling AI-powered systems across enterprises. He combines deep learning expertise (TensorFlow, PyTorch, transformers) with production ML engineering—designing MLOps pipelines, on-prem training platforms, and SageMaker/Vertex AI deployments for companies like Visa, Levi Strauss, and Intel. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs model architecture work (CNNs, RNNs, GANs, BERT/GPT-family models) with data engineering tools such as PySpark, Elasticsearch and Kubernetes to deliver measurable product impact. He has practical experience integrating LLMs into products (LangChain, chatbots, prompt engineering) and building agentic capabilities and post-call analytics for multilingual settings. An active open-source contributor and mentor with a background in embedded systems and kernel development, he brings uncommon breadth from low-level device drivers to cloud-scale AI. Based in Bengaluru, he’s known for rapid prototyping, cross-functional collaboration, and a continual curiosity for state-of-the-art NLP and big-data solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics & Communication, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics & Communication at Government engineering College,RajkotMaster of Technology (M.Tech. Industrial stream), VLSI and Embedded system design, Master of Technology (M.Tech. Industrial stream), VLSI and Embedded system design at Vel Tech University
Gujarati, Hindi, English
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Github contributions (5)
punitvara/zephyr
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Mirror of the zephyr repo on https://gerrit.zephyrproject.org
Contributions:530 pushes, 89 branches in 1 year 8 months
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punitvara/Grokking-the-Coding-Interview-Patterns-for-Coding-Questions
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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