Summary
Rituraj Joshi is a Senior Applied AI Scientist with nine years of software engineering and AI experience, currently optimizing LLM inference efficiency for speculative decoding on the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine. He has end-to-end expertise in pre- and post-training of large language models, including contributions to the Jais series that expanded open-source Arabic AI capabilities. Previously on Eightfold’s AI Platform, he improved natural language search and standardized skill extraction pipelines, measurably boosting precision and recall. A MTech student at IISc Bangalore, he bridges rigorous academic training with production-focused engineering. He combines low-level model optimization experience on specialized hardware with practical product impact, making him adept at turning research advances into scalable deployment. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a track record of shipping performant ML systems across both startup and research-driven environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at Birla Institute of Applied Sciences
High School, Science, High School, Science at St. Mary's Senior Secondary School
Hindi, English