Vaibhav Kumar
Founding Engineer at Big Sur AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Kumar is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building ML-driven products and generative AI systems, currently contributing to Video AI and social media features at a stealth startup in San Francisco. As a founding engineer at Big Sur AI, he shipped LLM, RAG, search/retrieval and A/B testing infrastructure to optimize sales conversion, blending research-grade modeling with product-focused experimentation. His background spans applied science internships at Amazon (including a published ACL paper on controlled text generation), research on bias and interpretability at top Indian institutes, and production ML work at Optum. He teaches and mentors—having been a TA for multiple UCLA CS courses—so he pairs technical depth with clear communication. Collected experiences across academia, industry, and startups give him a practical knack for turning cutting-edge NLP research into usable, measurable features.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.25/10.00 GPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.25/10.00 GPA at Delhi College of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (34)
urwid10
youtube10
pafy10
player10
music10
python9
audio9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
linux8
job-scheduling7
tensorflow7
neural-network6
conll6
ffi5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TimeTraveller-San/ML-CPP
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
TimeTraveller-San/Web-Console
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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