Shikhar Sakhuja
Member at Integrity Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShikhar Sakhuja is a versatile software engineer and ML practitioner with 9 years of experience building production-grade systems and applied research across startups and academia. He has led fraud reduction and payments work at scale at Discord, engineered risk-aware financial products at Motive, and co-founded AgentKali to automate deployment of notebook-driven ML workflows into secure microservices. His research background from Waterloo and NYU spans ML for side-channel detection, NLP for harassment detection, and large-scale ad analysis that attracted major media coverage. Comfortable shipping Ruby on Rails, Go, cloud infrastructure and ML models, Shikhar combines product-minded engineering with a researcher's rigor and a knack for turning notebooks into deployable services. An investor-backed founder with hands-on experience aligning cross-functional teams, he thrives at the intersection of ML, security, and payments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at NYU ShanghaiCentral Board of Secondary Education, Central Board of Secondary Education at St.Columba's School, New DelhiMaster of Mathematics - MMath (Ph.D. Track) Computer Science, Master of Mathematics - MMath (Ph.D. Track) Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Chinese, Punjabi, Urdu
Github Skills (22)
automotive8
reference-implementation7
security-framework7
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
security6
sentence-similarity5
bert5
natural-language-understanding5
transformers5
advertising3
language-model3
gpt3
sentence-embeddings3
patch2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
online-pol-ads/FBPoliticalAds
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
shikhar394/shikhar394.github.io
May 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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