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Final model improved revenue-per-search by 12%."}, {"company": "Aganitha", "title": "Machine Learning Engineer", "start_date": "2021-11-05", "end_date": "2023-10-26", "duration_months": 24, "is_current": false, "industry": "AI/ML", "company_size": "51-200", "description": "Trained and shipped multiple ranking models for our product's discovery feed using XGBoost and LightGBM. Designed features across three families: content metadata, user behavior signals, and item engagement history. Owned the offline-online correlation analysis that determined which offline metrics actually predicted A/B test outcomes. 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Most recently, I designed the company's first hybrid retrieval system combining BM25 with dense vector recall, handling peak QPS of 8K with sub-200ms p95. My day-to-day work spans embedding model selection and fine-tuning, hybrid retrieval architecture, learning-to-rank, behavioral-signal integration, and the offline/online evaluation that ties it all together. I've shipped systems in both early-stage product companies and at larger scale, and I've spent enough time on both that I know which tradeoffs apply where. I care more about shipping a working system in 6 weeks than a theoretically perfect one in 6 months. 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Strong background in NLP, recommendation systems, and applied AI; comfortable across the ML stack from feature engineering through deployment. Recently, I led the team that migrated our keyword-search-based product to embedding-based retrieval. I've spent enough time debugging production ranking issues to know which signals matter and which are noise. My academic background is in CS/ML but my main learning has come from shipping real systems and seeing what holds up under production load. 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Strong background in NLP, recommendation systems, and applied AI; comfortable across the ML stack from feature engineering through deployment. Recently, I led the team that migrated our keyword-search-based product to embedding-based retrieval. I've spent enough time debugging production ranking issues to know which signals matter and which are noise. My academic background is in CS/ML but my main learning has come from shipping real systems and seeing what holds up under production load. 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Strong background in NLP, recommendation systems, and applied AI; comfortable across the ML stack from feature engineering through deployment. Recently, I led the team that migrated our keyword-search-based product to embedding-based retrieval. I've spent enough time debugging production ranking issues to know which signals matter and which are noise. My academic background is in CS/ML but my main learning has come from shipping real systems and seeing what holds up under production load. 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