Tushar Makkar
Co-Founder & Co-CTO at Origin
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTushar Makkar is a serial engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building production ML, NLP, CV and generative AI systems and products. As Co-Founder & Co-CTO of Origin he now leads a team applying cutting-edge AI and robotics to transform a physically demanding industry, after driving Knowledge Graph, LLM and Document AI initiatives at Eightfold. He has a track record of shipping foundational systems—from resume parsing and talent-matching engines to freight pricing and simulation platforms—and holds 20+ patents and publications that reflect deep applied research. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Python validation tooling and UX in annotation tooling (voluptuous, doccano), showing attention to both backend correctness and frontend usability. Known for designing elegant, future-proof architectures and mentoring large cross-functional teams, he thrives on solving previously unsolvable, high-impact problems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Secondary Boards PCM, Senior Secondary Boards PCM at P.K.R Jain Sr. Sec. Public SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
javascript10
vuex10
data-validation10
python10
nuxt10
url-validation10
email-validation10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
testing9
user-interface9
html8
data-labeling7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alecthomas/voluptuous
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: Voluptuous, despite the name, is a Python data validation library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 88 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tushar primarily contributed to the `voluptuous` Python data validation library. Their work focused on enhancing URL and email validation, including implementing FQDN URL validation and adding test cases for various URL and email scenarios. They also refined validation logic and made code restructuring changes. Several commits addressed bug fixes and improved code readability.
pythonvalidationvalidation-librarypython-datapythonic
doccano/doccano
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Open source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tushar primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Doccano application. Their contributions included adding and integrating the user's username in the header and sidebar components for better user identification. They utilized Vuex for state management, improving the overall structure and maintainability of the frontend. The user also worked on clarifying input formats within the project's data handling components.
nlppractitionerspythontext-annotationdataset
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