Sankalp Garg
Co-Founder at Optexity
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSankalp Garg is a machine learning engineer-turned-founder with eight years of experience building applied AI systems across Apple, AWS, and research labs. As Co-Founder and CEO of Optexity in San Francisco, he focuses on teaching AI to use computers—translating research ideas into products that make models more interactive and useful. His background spans edge ML, temporal knowledge graphs, reinforcement learning for variable-sized graphs, and practical keyword/phoneme detection for tiny devices, reflecting a mix of academic rigor from IIT Delhi and CMU and hands-on production experience. Sankalp has interned and collaborated at top institutions worldwide (Microsoft, NUS, USC) and brings a quantitative trading stint’s discipline from Quadeye to product-focused ML engineering. He combines a deep research pedigree with startup grit, often favoring compact, efficient models suited for real-world constraints.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)High School, High School at Delhi Public School, FaridabadMaster of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (56)
sac9
mujoco9
q-learning8
actor-critic8
cql8
dqn8
ddpg8
gymnasium8
image7
hydra7
pytorch7
benchmark7
image-library7
reinforcement-learning7
png7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dair-iitd/symnet
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:8 commits in 9 months
INK-USC/DArtNet
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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