Vedant Puri is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable data systems and platform foundations, currently driving backend reliability at Klaviyo. He blends production-grade engineering with ML tooling experience, having contributed dataset integrations and teachers to Facebook Research’s ParlAI dialogue framework. Trained at UMass Amherst (BS) and Cornell (M.Eng), he has a history of mentoring students and improving developer-facing systems through thoughtful maintenance and bug fixes. Known for pragmatic automation early in his career—parsing large access logs and running scheduled ETL jobs—he excels at turning messy data into reliable pipelines that other teams depend on.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.Eng, Computer Science, M.Eng, Computer Science at Cornell University
A framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 38 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vedant contributed significantly to the `parlai` framework by implementing and integrating new dialogue datasets, specifically Taskmaster-1 and Woz. They developed teachers for these datasets, which likely involved data loading, preprocessing, and model training setup. Additionally, they modified existing code, fixed bugs, and incorporated copyright information, demonstrating a focus on the core functionality and maintenance of the framework.
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Contributions:5 releases, 144 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
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