Rishabh Misra
Principal ML Engineer Tech Lead at afterdays
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRishabh Misra is a Principal ML Engineer and tech lead based in San Francisco, specializing in low-latency, large-scale deep learning and personalization systems with nine years of industry experience and a decade-long footprint in AI research. Currently driving LLM pretraining, post-training, and personalization at Atlassian, he has previously built and led personalization and ranking teams at Attentive, Twitter, and Amazon, shipping production ML that moved key business metrics. A published researcher and conference reviewer with over 1,000 citations, he coauthored the practical book Sculpting Data for ML and advocates a data-centric approach to model development. He combines hands-on systems work—distributed training, ANN serving, mixed-precision and latency engineering—with product-minded multi-objective optimization and prompt-powered personalization. His technical leadership extends to advising top tech firms, creating production-ready GenAI courses, and producing widely read ML content that has reached over 150k people globally. Notably, his research artifacts are used in industry training (Deeplearning.ai, TensorFlow certification) and high-impact academic venues, bridging research and real-world ML adoption.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Thapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologyUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rishabhmisra/n-gram
Jan 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
rishabhmisra/Helpfulness-Prediction
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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