Rakshak Talwar
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRakshak Talwar is a founder-turned-technical leader with 12 years building production-grade AI systems, best-known for cofounding and scaling Zenus from concept to multimillion-dollar ARR while navigating complex global privacy regulations. He combines deep learning and computer vision expertise with product strategy, having shipped edge-deployed facial analysis models that processed millions of real-time events to replace surveys with near-complete behavioral analytics. Comfortable leading teams of 2–20, he focuses on measurable impact—examples include reducing manual curation from days to seconds and designing privacy-preserving ML for regulated environments. More recently he’s been building agent orchestration platforms and generative video products, and holds a pending face-recognition patent. Based in Austin, he organizes the city’s largest AI meetup and blends startup grit with hands-on ML engineering across edge, cloud, and LLM systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
face-detection10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
facenet10
face-recognition10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
miner3
youtube2
kaggle2
opencl2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RakshakTalwar/hatchpitchpull
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
mhlr/cartographer
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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