Ritvik Shrivastava is a Technical Lead specializing in Agentic and Multimodal AI with a decade of experience building scalable ML systems for both cloud and on-device contexts. Currently leading data initiatives at Meta Reality Labs, he focuses on compact SLMs for wearables and post-training LLM Agents that enable multi-tasking user support, bridging research and production. Previously at Cisco he led NLP and LLM efforts for Webex Contact Center AI, delivering cost-saving compression pipelines and orchestrated Agentic systems that improved query handling. He brings a strong research pedigree (Columbia MS, Google Scholar profile) and hands-on open-source contributions—extending Cisco’s MindMeld conversational platform—to practical product impact. Based in San Francisco, Ritvik blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering to advance human-centered multimodal interactions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
An Open Source Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:116 reviews, 38 commits, 53 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ritvik primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the MindMeld platform. They refactored the WebexBotServer to integrate with MindMeld, adding a sample server class for Webex Teams integration. Additional contributions involved fixing argument passing in the `query_features.py` module and updating the `setup.py` file to include a bot dependency. These modifications suggest an involvement in building and extending the platform's core features, particularly related to bot integration and query processing.
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Ritvik Shrivastava - Technical Lead - Agentic AI at Meta