Rishi Kesh is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building production-grade AI systems, specializing in agentic and generative models, LLM alignment, and speech synthesis. Based in Delhi, he leads dubpro.ai’s efforts to create human-like text-to-speech and voice transformation models, bringing research-grade techniques into scalable products. His open-source contributions include implementing HiFi-GAN components in the widely used coqui-ai TTS toolkit and improving scikit-learn examples and docs, reflecting both deep model expertise and attention to developer usability. Earlier roles span end-to-end speech engines, reinforcement learning for dialogue, knowledge graph construction, and high-performance product-matching systems, showcasing a rare blend of research, ML engineering, and full-stack software experience. Collected technical breadth—from Wavenet and DeepVoice to deployment automation—enables him to move complex ML innovations from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar
Contributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 56 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily contributed to improving the examples and documentation within the scikit-learn repository. Their work included updating examples to be compatible with newer versions of Matplotlib, specifically by adding the `edgecolors` attribute to scatter plots. Additionally, the user fixed formulas in the Gaussian Process kernel documentation, improved visualization in example plots, and enabled code coverage reporting using Codecov. This indicates a focus on enhancing the usability, visual clarity, and maintainability of the machine learning examples.
🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily contributed to the development of the HiFi-GAN vocoder within the TTS project. Their work involved implementing HiFi-GAN generator and discriminator classes, integrating MSD with the Multi-Period Discriminator, and adding Exponential LR for training. They also addressed minor bugs and made code trainable, suggesting a focus on model architecture, training, and optimization within the text-to-speech framework.
deep-learningtext-to-speechpythonspeechpytorch
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