Salika Dave
Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolSalika Dave is a Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of software engineering experience, currently building ML and MLOps systems at NVIDIA after completing an MS in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. She specializes in engineering scalable data curation pipelines and HTIL workflows for LLMs, with hands-on experience improving recommendation accuracy and designing knowledge-graph backed retrieval systems. Her background spans production data services, AWS-based cost-optimization, and real-time file delivery architectures, including proposals that boosted transfer speeds and cut hosting costs. Comfortable across the stack—from Pyserini and Neo4j to Django, Celery, Snowflake and AWS—she combines research rigor from Alexa Prize work with practical deployment experience. Based in California, she brings a pragmatic focus on measurable impact (e.g., +10% recommendation accuracy, ~20% EC2 cost improvements) and a knack for turning exploratory analysis into production-ready pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor's of Engineering Computer Science at K. J. Somaiya Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
markdown10
shield10
uri10
github-pages9
github8
react-navigation6
react-router-native6
css6
react-native6
google-sheets5
javascript5
google-sheets-api4
google4
nodejs4
chrome-extension4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
salikadave/freshers-interview-checklist
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:96 commits, 12 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
salikadave/react-workshop-start-here
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Workshop conducted from 11th - 13th June.
Contributions:1 review, 67 commits, 33 PRs in 1 month
juneworkshop
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