Abhiraj Darshankar
Senior AI Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhiraj Darshankar is a Senior AI Engineer with 12 years of industry experience and a focused 4-year track record in ML/AI strategy and delivery, most recently scaling AI systems at Microsoft. He combines a user-centric approach with hands-on expertise deploying production ML on AWS and big data stacks like Spark and dask, and delivered $15M in measurable value during his tenure at PACCAR. With an MS in Cognitive Science, he blends interests in NLP, reinforcement learning, and cognitive science to bridge research ideas and product impact, and has contributed to the Python open-source community. Previously influential across pharmaceutical and tech sectors, he also shapes organizational data maturity roadmaps—an indicator of his ability to align technical execution with business strategy.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cognitive Science, Master of Science - MS Cognitive Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
jupyter-extension10
vscode-extension9
windows9
vscode9
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
jupyter8
kinect7
tensorflow7
powertoys7
command-palette7
database6
future6
neural-network6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
abhirajD/abhirajD.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jul 2024
My Git page
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
abhirajD/kbd_layout_overlay
Aug 2025 - Oct 2025
Given a keyboard shortcut overlays an image.
Contributions:1 review, 81 PRs, 99 pushes in 1 month
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