Yash Gaurkar is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs with a decade of experience bridging machine learning research and applied engineering, grounded in an MTech from IIT Kharagpur. He has progressed from analyst roles in Bengaluru to leadership in New York, bringing hands-on expertise in deep learning, robotics simulations, and autonomous systems developed during internships and early-career roles at Microsoft Research and robotics teams. Passionate about humanoid robots and their role in space exploration, he combines financial technology product experience with research-driven approaches to AI. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who translates cutting-edge ML ideas into production-ready systems while keeping an eye on audacious long-term goals like sending humanoids to Mars.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dav public school
Master of Technology - MTech Mechanical Engineering, Master of Technology - MTech Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 3 issues in 2 years 7 months
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