Shahul Shereef is a data science and ML engineer with nine years of experience building end-to-end machine learning systems and NLP solutions across startups and product teams. He founded Vibrant Labs to benchmark and improve long-horizon capabilities of AI agents, and previously built production ML pipelines at AMPLYFI and credit-underwriting models using short-text and alternative data. A Kaggle Grandmaster (Kernels) ranked top 20 among 100k+ users, he brings competition-honed modeling rigor to real-world problems and contributes to notable open-source projects like LAION’s Open-Assistant and torch-audiomentations. His open-source work includes converting dialog datasets into instruction-following formats for conversational AI and adding robust audio augmentation and evaluation metrics, reflecting a practical focus on data quality and model evaluation. Based in San Francisco, he combines entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering and a knack for turning messy, small-text datasets into deployable ML features.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at Govt.model engineering college
Contributions:255 reviews, 582 PRs, 319 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Shahul implemented a BertScore metric and added SBERT score calculation and relative imports within the `belar/metrics/similarity.py` file. Moreover, the user added EditScore metric with distance and ratio measures, and also a Bleu score. They also added Textual Entailment Score, fixed device checks, re-formatted imports and added the Q-square metric.
Fast audio data augmentation in PyTorch. Inspired by audiomentations. Useful for deep learning.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:5 reviews, 52 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shahul primarily contributed to implementing and testing audio data augmentation techniques using PyTorch within the `torch-audiomentations` repository. They developed a `RandomCrop` augmentation, including initial implementation, base class initialization, type conversions, and testing. Furthermore, the user added a `Padding` augmentation and contributed to a `SpliceOut` augmentation. The commits focus on enhancing the library's audio processing capabilities, particularly for deep learning applications.
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