Saurish Srivastava
Engineering at Contrary
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurish Srivastava is a versatile technologist and venture partner based in Palo Alto with eight years of experience spanning AI research, software engineering, and early-stage investing. He blends hands-on ML and systems work—from building agents and foundation-model research to contributing on high-profile teams like xAI’s Grok—with venture scouting at Contrary and operational research organizing at Princeton AI Alignment. Comfortable moving between research labs (computational neuroscience, cognitive science, astrophysics) and product internships at AWS and startups, he has a rare combination of deep technical curiosity and market-facing judgment. He’s drawn to hard interdisciplinary problems at the intersection of AI and neurotech, and actively seeks founders and collaborators who want to build ambitious systems. Notably, his background includes both adversarial-ML research and applied agent development, signaling an interest in robust, real-world AI systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Evergreen Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Princeton University
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
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Github Skills (92)
deep-reinforcement-learning10
mdx10
tailwindcss10
tailwind10
segmentation10
react10
javascript9
react-component9
parallax9
deep-learning9
engage9
nextjs9
planetscale9
machine-learning9
tilt9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
minor/plutonium
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
A Next.js template styled with TailwindCSS
Contributions:37 commits, 24 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year
minor/minor
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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