Rohit Nigam
Principal ML Engineer at Autodesk
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Nigam is a Principal ML Engineer with a two-decade technology career bridging deep software engineering and applied AI, currently advancing ML systems at Autodesk after focused work on integrity and personalization at Meta. He has led end-to-end AI initiatives at Cognizant—driving marketplace-ready solutions, hackathons, and data science deliveries for healthcare and enterprise clients—while earlier roles at PayPal, IBM, Adobe and Symantec grounded him in robust systems and production reliability. Rohit’s strengths span tuning multi-task Transformer models for content moderation, causal modeling for ad optimization, and architecting scalable data pipelines that translate research into operational impact. He combines hands-on model optimization with product-minded leadership, mentoring teams to ship features that reduce cost and risk for customers. Based in Pune, he pairs formal data science training from Liverpool John Moores with practical experience reversing complex legacy systems and migrating critical finance applications. A practical innovator, he’s known for turning hackathon concepts into AWS Marketplace offerings and for improving observability and debugging in high-stakes production environments.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PG Diploma Advance Software Technologies, PG Diploma Advance Software Technologies at Ultimate minds groupBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of MumbaiPG Diploma Data Science, PG Diploma Data Science at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Liverpool John Moores UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (26)
robotics10
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning10
decision-making10
reinforcement-learning9
primitive9
pytorch9
distributed-computing9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
classification8
python8
clustering8
regression8
ai8
machine-learning8
modular8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rohitnig/Machine-Learning
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
rohitnig/msc-repository
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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