Summary
Shivam Swarnkar is a software engineer and independent developer with 11 years of industry experience, currently building systems at Bloomberg and leading an open-source learning community as founder of BlueMirrors. He specializes in computer vision and deep learning, having designed and deployed real-time multi-camera traffic monitoring, ANPR, and edge-optimized models for city-scale AI projects, and driven substantial inference speedups and model compression using distillation, quantization and pruning. His background includes senior ML roles and volunteer leadership at Omdena where he led earthquake risk modeling and NLP projects that produced reusable pipelines and tangible improvements in topic modeling accuracy. A NYU computer science graduate and Udacity ML nanodegree holder, Shivam blends research-driven solutions with production-grade engineering for both cloud and constrained devices. Notably, he has reduced model parameters by nearly 89% with minimal accuracy loss and standardized deployment practices across teams, showing a rare mix of product, deployment, and mentorship impact.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.76, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.76 at New York University
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Hindi