Rohith Pudari is a PhD student and research/teaching assistant at the University of Toronto with eight years of experience applying machine learning to make software development and open source communities more efficient and accountable. His work spans ML systems, recommendation and summarization models, face recognition, and governance/risk analysis of software platforms, blending algorithmic rigor with socio-technical insight. He has industrial experience at Deloitte and Google Cloud and contributed to notable open-source infrastructure—improving build and dependency workflows for OpenMined’s PySyft project, demonstrating a practical focus on reproducible ML and privacy-preserving tooling. Rohith’s background in quantum ML and a progression from internships to PhD research give him a rare mix of systems, applied ML, and community-aware research perspective.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of Victoria
Bachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Technology at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Toronto
Certificate of Quantum Excellence, Certificate of Quantum Excellence at 2021 Qiskit Global Summer School on Quantum Machine Learning
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 28 days
Contributions summary:Rohith's contributions primarily involved modifications to the `build_proto.sh` script, including updates to Protobuf version requirements. They also made changes to the project's `setup.py` file, related to dependencies. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging branches and updating dependencies related to differential privacy examples. These changes suggest a focus on build processes, dependency management, and infrastructure configuration within the repository.
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
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Rohith Pudari - Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant