Trushant Kalyanpur
Senior Principal MLE - Applied AI at Lila Sciences
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrushant Kalyanpur is a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer with over two decades of experience translating cutting-edge ML research into high-ROI enterprise solutions, currently leading applied ML at Cohere. He combines deep NLP and vision-language expertise with a proven ability to deliver custom SOTA models, from lightweight hybrid reasoning systems optimized for single GPUs to enterprise-grade VLMs and evaluation pipelines. A strategic technical leader, he has driven POCs alongside sales and solution architects, improving customer outcomes and accelerating revenue through tightly integrated model development. Previously at H2O.ai and Intel, he built production AutoML NLP features and deployed DNN-based quality and anomaly detection systems that dramatically reduced detection time and operational costs. Outside product builds, he’s a Kaggle Competitions Master (48th worldwide) with 20 medals, signaling rare hands-on modeling skill paired with systems-level delivery.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi
Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
driverless10
audio10
h2o-wave10
object-detection10
python9
llm9
machine-learning9
openmmlab9
natural-language-processing9
instance-segmentation9
vision-transformer9
deep-learning9
mask-rcnn9
webapp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tkmaker/RaspberryPiHomeAlarm
Nov 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
tkmaker/DataScience
Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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