Hemanth HM
Senior Machine Learning Manager at PayPal
California, United States
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Top SchoolHemanth HM is a Senior Machine Learning Manager based in California with 16 years of experience leading full-stack and ML/AI engineering at scale, currently heading Core AI/ML and Labs at PayPal. He blends deep technical chops across web, CLI and backend systems with product-minded leadership—driving growth, conversion and resilient payments infrastructure. A long-time open-source contributor and FOSS advocate, he has contributed to high-profile projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers, es6-shim, and Yeoman tooling, often tackling subtle edge cases and build/system improvements. He serves as a Google Developer Expert, Google Developer Advisory Board member, and TC39 delegate, bringing influence in the web and JavaScript standards communities. Known for pragmatic code craftsmanship, he often moves between Perl, Ruby, JavaScript and DevOps tooling, reflecting a rare polyglot fluency across legacy and modern stacks. Outside core product work he mentors startups and developer communities, quietly shaping developer tooling and documentation that improve daily engineering workflows.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.E C.S, B.E C.S at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityNational High School, National High School at National High SchoolPUC PCMB, PUC PCMB at National College
English, Hindi, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
git10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
shim10
css10
bash10
document-generation10
perl10
mongodb-database10
ubuntu10
ruby10
yeoman10
yaml10
html10
nodejs10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
git-tips/tips
Jul 2015 - Aug 2021
Most commonly used git tips and tricks.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:213 commits, 150 PRs, 213 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily focused on improving the documentation generation process for git tips. Their contributions involved modifying the rendering logic for the table of contents and the tips themselves. This included migrating to a new documentation framework (doxie), implementing title slugification, and incorporating support for alternative commands. The user's changes aimed to enhance the organization, presentation, and usability of the git tips documentation.
tips-and-tricks
yeoman/generator-node
Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
Create a Node.js module
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 54 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily contributed to the project by addressing bug fixes, feature enhancements, and code modernization within the `yeoman/generator-node` repository. Their work included refactoring variable names, making default value changes, and incorporating browserify support, indicating an active role in improving the generator's functionality. Further contributions involved fixing JSLint issues, adapting to generator version updates, and implementing changes related to prompting, showing an understanding of the project's build and configuration processes. The user also migrated the project to mocha and implemented editorconfig, and eslint along with gulpfile integrations for quality improvements.
nodejs
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