Sriharsh Bhyravajjula
Senior Applied Scientist at Outreach
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSriharsh Bhyravajjula is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience building NLP and ML-driven products, currently advancing conversational intelligence and summarization at Microsoft after leading applied science work on Outreach’s Kaia assistant. He combines industrial delivery—designing scalable analytics and language-agnostic pipelines at Klevu—with academic research in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington, where his thesis focuses on Narrative Understanding and he won a Best Paper Award for generating character arcs. Comfortable across end-to-end product delivery, model development, and analytics, he has shipped real-time transcription, QA, and summarization features as well as large-scale e-commerce insights from terabytes of data. An experienced open-source contributor, he’s improved core tooling in the long-running Wikimedia pywikibot project, addressing robustness and consistency in backend scripts. Beyond engineering, he writes poetry and fiction, bringing a narrative sensibility to problems in language understanding that informs both research and product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonMaster's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
french (rudimentary), Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (10)
mediawiki10
python10
api-client10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
refactoring8
refactor8
wikipedia7
wikimedia7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/pywikibot
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sriharsh primarily focused on improving and maintaining the pywikibot library. Their contributions involved removing default parameter values in several scripts to prevent errors, specifically in `flickrripper.py` and `panoramiopicker.py`. Additionally, they unified parameter naming conventions within replace and movepages scripts for improved consistency and addressed related testing requirements. They also implemented coordinate precision to dimension conversion and made improvements to recent changes page generation.
pythonsubmitwikidatawikipediawikia
darthbhyrava/redcafe
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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