Shashank Kapadia
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at AI Accelerator Institute
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Kapadia is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across MLOps, search, recommendation engines, NLP and LLMs, currently driving AI initiatives at Walmart Global Tech from Sunnyvale. He has a proven track record leading cross-functional teams at Monster and Randstad to modernize search and recommender pipelines, increase user engagement, and align data science with agile delivery. Deep hands-on expertise in TensorFlow, PyTorch and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) complements his strategic leadership in operationalizing models at scale. Beyond product impact, he contributes to the community through Medium articles and a GitHub project preparing NLP datasets, reflecting a practitioner who values reproducible data work and knowledge-sharing. As an advisor and mentor, he blends technical depth with people-first leadership to accelerate teams and influence ML best practices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Operations Research, Master of Science (M.S.) Operations Research at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English
Github Skills (8)
data-preprocessing10
jupyter-notebook10
nlp10
data-cleaning10
python10
json9
pandas8
file-handling8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kapadias/medium-articles
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Shashank prepared and processed data for language modeling tasks using the Yelp dataset. They extracted restaurant reviews, cleaned the text data, and preprocessed it for subsequent analysis. The commits demonstrate an understanding of data manipulation, text data cleaning techniques, and the creation of a dataset suitable for natural language processing (NLP) model training, likely for a language modeling task. The code also includes initial exploration and the creation of a text file containing restaurant reviews.
kapadias/kapadias
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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