Vinod Shanbhag
Retired at ...
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarVinod Shanbhag is a seasoned software engineer and inventor with over 25 years of production experience and eight years of focused contributions to advanced ML tooling. After a long tenure as Principal SDE at Microsoft, he recently retired in the San Francisco Bay Area but remains active as a lifelong student and hardcore programmer. His open-source work includes substantive ML engineering contributions to the high-profile ML.NET project, enhancing AutoML APIs with cancellation, progress callbacks, and improved autofit returns to make model selection more robust and user-friendly. Known for project execution and customer obsession, he blends deep systems design with practical developer ergonomics. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who quietly refactors complexity into durable, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
algorithms10
machine-learning10
dotnet10
mlnet10
csharp10
automl10
mldotnet10
dotnet-core10
multiclass-classification9
binary-classification9
regression9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/machinelearning
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vinod made significant changes to the `ML.NET` framework, focusing on the `AutoML` functionality. Their commits involve modifying and extending API classes, particularly around autofitting algorithms for different machine learning tasks, including regression, binary classification, and multiclass classification. Key changes include adding new overloads, implementing cancellation, incorporating progress callbacks, and refactoring the return types of autofit methods. These contributions directly enhance the framework's usability and efficiency.
dotnetmachine-learningml
vinodshanbhag/HATS
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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