Rashish Tandon is a research-driven machine learning engineer and infrastructure leader with eight years of industry experience, currently serving as VP of Research Infra at Hume AI. He built large-scale ML training platforms at Apple across multiple senior engineering roles and transitioned into leadership at Hume to operationalize research systems. Rashish holds a PhD from UT Austin where his work in distributed, structured, and high-dimensional optimization under Alex Dimakis and Pradeep Ravikumar seeded his approach to scalable ML systems. Based in Seattle, he combines deep theoretical training with hands-on platform engineering, often focusing on the intersection of algorithmic rigor and production reliability. An academic-turned-practitioner, he maintains an active publication record and a personal site documenting his research and tools.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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