Summary
Santosh Mashetty is a Machine Learning Engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building production AI systems across Apple and Microsoft, currently managing a 10-engineer team at Apple in Cupertino. He specializes in building domain-specific LLMs, RLHF components, privacy-preserving Core ML workflows, and real-time personalization for customer support and CRM. His background spans personalization, ranking, ASR/TTS, and forecasting systems that have driven large-scale user engagement and cost savings at Microsoft and Azure. He combines strong research credentials (dual B.Tech/M.Tech with top grades and a business analytics master’s) with hands-on delivery, having shipped frameworks for Windows 11 and open-sourced domain language models. Notable but less obvious: he blends product impact with ethical AI work—targeting hallucination mitigation and privacy-first on-device learning—while mentoring cross-functional teams. Based in Cupertino, he bridges deep research, engineering leadership, and practical deployment of ML at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Part-time), Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Part-time), Computer Science, 4.0 at Arizona State University
B.Tech. + M.Tech Engineering (Dual Degree) with Honours, Engineering, 4.0 /4.0, B.Tech. + M.Tech Engineering (Dual Degree) with Honours, Engineering, 4.0 /4.0 at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Master's degree, Business Analytics, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Business Analytics, 4.0/4.0 at Arizona State University - W. P. Carey School of Business
Hindi, Telugu, English