Utkarsh Desai
Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning at LinkedIn
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Desai is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with 13 years of experience building production-grade ML systems across Google, IBM Research, Oracle and Amazon. With a MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas, he blends deep learning research—spanning LLMs, GNNs, unsupervised and reinforcement learning—with hands-on engineering of large-scale pipelines for feed quality, personalization, and time-series anomaly detection. He has led cross-modal model testing frameworks, AI4Code initiatives, and medical copilot and chat-analysis products, demonstrating strength in both model innovation and lifecycle engineering. Notably, his work at IBM produced tools for test data generation and lifecycle evaluation, reflecting a rare focus on model reliability and validation. Based in Bengaluru, he combines academic publication activity with practical product impact, making him effective at translating cutting-edge research into robust, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering Information technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information technology at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (15)
nlp9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
speech-recognition8
pytorch8
natural-language-processing8
python8
tensorflow7
bert7
transformer7
transformers6
language-model6
jax5
seq2seq4
flax2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
utkd/gans
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
utkd/cogcn
Feb 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 2 years 11 months
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