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Hello, Iā€™m Ayush Thakur šŸ‘‹

I currently work as aMachine Learning Engineer at Weights & Biases, focusing on building integrations, LLM applications, LLM system evaluations, educational content and more. The crux of my work is to grow our usebase and have played a crucial role in doing so. As one of the earliest hire in the growth team, I have been involved with multiple key integrations, initiatives, projects, and more.

Professional Experience

Machine Learning Engineer | Weights & Biases
2020 - Present

  • Written multiple blog posts and tutorials on Deep Learning, MLOps, RAG, Evaluation and more. Check them out here.
  • Reproduced research papers and wrote about them. Check them out here.
  • Develop MLOps pipelines for popular open-source repositories/frameworks/orgs like Keras, OpenMMLab, Meta, XGBoost, and more.
  • Develop LLMOps integrations with LLM providers like OpenAI, Cohere, CrewAI, and more.
  • Built and evaluated wandbot, a Q&A RAG based chatbot.
  • Created courses on LLM applications and MLOps.
  • Lead the AI team in India and lead the OS integration efforts.
  • Created and built our Kaggle Ambassador program. Became a Kaggle Notebooks Master in the process.

Certifications & Recognition

  • Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning (TensorFlow Core) (Aug 2022 - Present)
  • Kaggle Notebooks Master - Created numerous popular notebooks for competitions.

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch
  • ML/DL Domains: LLMs, Computer Vision, MLOps, RAG systems
  • Tools & Platforms: Weights & Biases, Keras, HuggingFace, OpenMMLab
  • Areas of Expertise:
    • LLM application development and system evaluations
    • Building and optimizing MLOps pipelines
    • Technical content creation
    • Deep learning model implementations

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering | Netaji Subhash Engineering College
2016 - 2020

Community Involvement

  • Google Developer Group - Volunteer (Nov 2018 - Nov 2019)
  • Robonix 2018 - Assistant Head for Line Follower competition (Feb 2018 - Mar 2018)

Courses Created

  • RAG++: From POC to Production
  • Training and Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)

Personal Interests

Iā€™m passionate about open-source collaboration and enjoy discussing innovative ML approaches. In my free time, I love watching anime (Naruto is my all-time favorite, One Piece is love, and Solo Leveling is šŸ”„).

Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or LinkedIn for collaborations or discussions!