Vikram D
Applied Scientist II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVikram D is an Applied Scientist II at Microsoft with six years of experience building production ML systems and developer-facing AI features, most notably prototyping the Next Edit Suggestion model behind GitHub Copilot and contributing to Azure OpenAI retrieval and multimodal document support. He blends research rigor from a CMU master's in Machine Learning and UI-to-infrastructure engineering fluency from multiple Microsoft internships to ship finetuning pipelines, autograders with strong human alignment, and RAG capabilities used by millions. Comfortable moving between prototyping novel algorithms and hardening them for scale, he has hands-on experience in reinforcement learning for trading, fMRI denoising, and privacy-preserving federated systems. Based in Seattle, he brings a track record of turning cutting-edge research into practical product improvements that directly impact developer productivity.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
object-detection6
pytorch6
tensorrt6
yolov43
onnx3
computer-vision2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vkrd/Signature-Verification
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
vkrd/Markov-Chain
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year
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