Rick Bhardwaj
Co-Founder, CEO at Strange Loop
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRick Bhardwaj is a founder and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building production-grade ML and distributed systems from prototype to customer launch. After helping scale Alexa’s machine learning and compute platforms at Amazon—gaining hands-on exposure to Mesos, Spark, and large-scale DNN training—he led route optimization and planning at logistics startup MileZero, taking the stack from inception through acquisition. Now CEO of Strange Loop, he blends deep systems and ML expertise with product-focused execution in fast-changing startup environments. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate with internships across Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel, he’s comfortable navigating both low-level infrastructure and applied ML pipelines, and he’s known for shipping pragmatic solutions under tight operational constraints.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (30)
lambda10
jersey9
operations-research9
sam9
combinatorial-optimization9
aws9
aws-sam9
optimization9
linear-programming9
serverless9
docker8
cli8
python8
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Github contributions (5)
rickbhardwaj/audio-relay-chat
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 month
rickbhardwaj/communications-121
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
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