Sahil Dua
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Zurich, Zurich, United States
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Top SchoolSahil Dua is a Senior Research Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operationalizing large-scale ML systems, currently driving research in multimodal understanding, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and reinforcement learning at Google DeepMind. Previously he led teams at Google to build foundational embedding models, robust data pipelines, and low-latency serving infrastructure used across Alphabet products, bringing end-to-end LLM expertise from data collection to quality ablations and production deployment. He has deep backend and full-stack chops evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers and google/go-github, and practical optimization work on fast code search and concurrent indexing. Comfortable switching between research and engineering, he combines academic rigor (Stanford AI program) with proven product impact—launching features that drove meaningful user engagement and building developer-facing tools to make dual-encoder and retrieval systems accessible. Based in Zurich, he blends a systems-first mindset with a knack for pragmatic, scalable solutions that bridge research prototypes and production-grade generative AI products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyAI Professional Program Artificial Intelligence, AI Professional Program Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University School of EngineeringHigher Secondary Physics Chemistry & Mathematics, Higher Secondary Physics Chemistry & Mathematics at Govt. Senior Secondary School, Tanda
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (42)
apim10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
github10
handlebars10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
c1110
ui-design10
perl10
c1710
uid10
instant-view10
grammars10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:184 commits, 72 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily focused on enhancing the "Frequency" instant answer within the `duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies` repository. They refactored the module, updating it to utilize different templates (list and record). Additionally, they implemented improvements such as adding a subtitle, correcting tests, and updating the title to be more relevant to user queries. Furthermore, the user worked on initializing and implementing a JavaScript minifier tool.
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
google/go-github
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 130 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily contributed to the `google/go-github` repository by implementing and adding support for new features of the GitHub API, such as the commit search and pull request review features. Their work involved adding new endpoints and data structures to interact with the API, specifically in the areas of search and pull request reviews. Furthermore, they made improvements related to error handling and ensuring code consistency across multiple files within the repository. They also added support for community health metrics preview API, archiving repositories, and other minor fixes to improve the functionality of the library.
golangapigithub-api-v3api-v3go-library
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