Ujjawal Panchal
AI Engineer at Meme Chat
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolUjjawal Panchal is an AI engineer with 8 years of experience building research-driven language models and production ML systems from San Jose. He blends first-principles research—Mixture-of-Experts, RL post-training, RAG security—with hands-on engineering, having invented a custom MoE load-balancing solution and delivered a custom DDP training stack with ~3.5× throughput gains. As co-founder and CTO of Meme Chat he scaled ML-driven features and a RAG analytics platform to 10M+ downloads and $2M+ ARR, and he serves on its board while continuing deep-model work at fundamental.ai. His background spans pretraining, quantization, PEFT innovations, and large-scale retrieval systems optimized for latency and cost, reflecting a rare mix of research rigor and product-scale execution. A former UC Davis researcher and TA, he also has a track record of turning adversarial insights into practical mitigations for deployed LLMs.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at SRM IST ChennaiDelhi Public School - Bopal, Ahmedabad
Japanese, English, Hindi, Gujarati, French
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Github Skills (64)
llama10
openai-gym9
stock-trading9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
python8
deep-learning8
fintech8
gpu8
machine-learning8
finance8
a-z8
sec8
financial7
bottleneck7
dropout7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ujjawal-K-Panchal/coshnet
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
mannykao/mk_mlutils
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Utilities for training ML models within pytorch, mostly batch sampling etc.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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