Praveen Sridhar
Data Scientist 4
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Sridhar is a Data Scientist with eight years of experience building and deploying ML systems at scale, currently focused on AI agents and evaluation at Meta. He has driven product-facing ML work across companies like Citizen and Nextdoor—launching notification and video-ranking systems that measurably increased DAU/MAU and engagement—and has strong production experience on GCP/Vertex AI. His background spans end-to-end NLP and retrieval pipelines from research at Northeastern to practical fraud and churn models at Meta and Nextdoor, with hands-on expertise in transformer-based models, CLIP, and prompt engineering techniques. Notably, he combines research rigor (Roberta emotion detectors and semantic retrieval work) with pragmatic deployment practices—reducing inference time by 45% in academic projects and stabilizing offline-to-online model performance in production. Based in San Jose, he blends data science research and applied ML engineering to turn complex models into reliable, impact-driven systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (15)
sentiment-analysis6
reddit6
django4
text-classification4
tensorflow3
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
react3
question-answering2
crud2
javascript2
neural-style-transfer1
ai1
chatbot1
neural-network1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PraveenKumarSridhar/FakeCheck
Jan 2023 - Oct 2025
Classifying wether an Image of Human Face is real or Fake
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
PraveenKumarSridhar/metoo_research
Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
(Northeastern) Research on social media patterns surrounding MeToo movement
Contributions:2 PRs, 252 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
dataminingdata-sciencedata-miningmachine-learningpatterns
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