Sidharth Thapar is a Senior Applied Scientist and AI leader based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of engineering experience and nine years focused on ML and AI. He has driven enterprise-scale NLP and computer vision projects—most recently leading Staples’ Unified Product Matching Platform and a $7B automated bidding revamp using fine-tuned LLMs—while managing cross-functional teams of up to 16 engineers and data scientists. His track record includes delivering multi-million dollar operational savings through productionized models (price elasticity and audio suppression) and building scalable end-to-end ML products across cloud and MLOps stacks. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has applied deep learning to market surveillance, audio analytics, and domain-specific transformer encoders. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous business problems into deployable ML systems and for hands-on mentorship across data science and software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The Lawrence School - Sanawar - India
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Contributions:7 releases, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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