Summary
Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar is a Founding Engineer and ML-focused researcher with nine years of experience building production-ready AI systems, currently leading post-training alignment, reasoning, and RL efforts at Bespoke Labs in San Francisco. He previously co-founded SciPhi (YC W24) to productize RAG workflows with R2R and has research experience at NYU’s CILVR and GRAIL labs, combining academic rigor (MS CS, 4.0) with startup velocity. His background in quantitative roles at Goldman Sachs and Citadel informs a data-driven approach to model evaluation and decision-making under uncertainty. Known for a “speed is everything” ethos, he balances rapid iteration with careful alignment work to move models from research into reliable user-facing products. Beyond engineering, he brings a blend of finance-grade quantitative discipline and deep learning research that helps bridge exploratory ML and scalable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at New York University