About Shreya
Machine Learning Engineer with 2+ years of production DevOps experience and an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from WPI (May 2026, GPA 3.9).
Algoverse Research Fellow and co-first author of a mechanistic interpretability paper on latent chain-of-thought reasoning accepted as a poster at the ICML 2026 FoGen Workshop. Recognized in the Google Cloud x NVIDIA developer community with a Golden Ticket Contest honorable mention at NVIDIA GTC 2026 for inference-optimization engagement across three completed learning pathways. Data Science GQP MVP for a production multi-agent document-intelligence system built for an industry sponsor.
I build production ML systems end to end, from data and training infrastructure through inference optimization to reliability monitoring.
- Location
- San Jose, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Marathi
Availability
Open to full-time machine learning, AI, computer vision and research engineering roles.
F-1 with OPT and STEM OPT: 3 years of US work authorization, no sponsorship needed up front. Open to H-1B sponsorship long term.
- Start date
- Immediately
- Roles
- ML Engineer (inference, performance, platform)
- AI Engineer / Applied AI
- GenAI / LLM Engineer
- Computer Vision / Multimodal Engineer
- Research Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)
- MLOps / ML Platform Engineer
- Locations
- Remote (US)
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seattle
- New York
- Boston
- Austin
- Los Angeles
- San Diego
- Open to relocation anywhere in the US
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence
Worcester, MA. Aug 2024 to May 2026. GPA 3.9/4.0.
- Coursework
- Computer Vision, Generative AI, Deep Learning, Large Language Models, MLOps, Reinforcement Learning, Case Studies in Data Science
- Honors
- Data Science GQP Most Valuable Player (MVP), December 2025
- Golden Ticket Contest Honorable Mention, Google Cloud x NVIDIA developer community, NVIDIA GTC 2026
PES Modern College of Engineering (Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Honours in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Pune, India. Jun 2017 to May 2022. GPA 8.9/10.
- Coursework
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP and Computer Vision, Data Structures and Algorithms, Database Management Systems, Object-Oriented Programming, Internet of Things
- Honors
- Honours in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Final-year project sponsorship from TECHVED, October 2021
Recognition
Awards
Dec 2025
Data Science GQP Most Valuable Player (MVP)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
One of only a few MVP recipients; exceptional individual contribution to the Crossing x WPI industry-sponsored project that cut immigration petition review from 3 to 4 days to 5 to 10 minutes.
May 2024
Top Talent 2024
Persistent Systems
DevOps excellence: CI/CD automation across 20+ projects, infrastructure as code, container orchestration and automated deployment workflows.
Dec 2023
Bravo Individual Award, Technology and Process Excellence
Persistent Systems
Critical role in multiple deliverables and impactful automation improvements under tight deadlines.
Jan 2023
Team Excellence Award FY2023
Persistent Systems annual awards
One of the best teams at Persistent for performance and delivery.
Dec 2022
Bravo Team Award, Teamwork and Dedication
Persistent Systems
Delivering challenging work under tight project deadlines.
May 2022
Best Intern, 2022 batch
Persistent Systems
Top intern among 20,000+ new joiners across India.
Honors
Mar 2026
Golden Ticket Contest honorable mention, NVIDIA GTC 2026
Google Cloud x NVIDIA developer community
Community contest recognition for a technical write-up on inference optimization after completing three Google Cloud x NVIDIA learning pathways (NVIDIA NIM on GKE, Intro to Inference on GPUs, Speed Up Data Analytics on GPUs). One of 12 honorable mentions; invited to coffee chats with Google and NVIDIA leaders.
May 2022
Honours in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
PES Modern College of Engineering
B.E. Information Technology with an AI and ML honours specialization.
Oct 2021
Project sponsorship from TECHVED
TECHVED Consulting
Industry sponsorship for the Map.AR final-year project.
Aug 2020
Python Gold Badge (5 stars)
HackerRank
Fellowships
Feb 2026
AI Research Fellow
Algoverse AI Research Fellowship
Competitive 12-week fellowship, February 2026 cohort; latent chain-of-thought mechanistic interpretability.
Apr 2026
AI Trainer Fellow
Handshake AI
Selected domain expert for frontier LLM and VLM evaluation.
Publications
May 2026
Poster accepted at the ICML 2026 FoGen Workshop
ICML 2026 Workshop on Foundations of Deep Generative Models
Interpreting Latent CoT Reasoning as Dynamical Systems; reviewer rating 6/6.
Competitions
May 2020
National Level Technical Contest on Web Design
SNJB College of Engineering; Computer Society of India x TechGig
Participation certificate.
May 2020
FUEL Aptitude Championship
National level
Feb 2018
1st rank, Yantra-Maan robotics
Xtronica Mpulse 2018
Robotics competition during undergraduate studies.
Sep 2017
Clash Contest, Credenz 2017
PICT IEEE Student Branch
Certifications
Jun 2022
Graduate Engineers with Multidimensional Skills (GEMS)
Persistent Systems
Completed the GEMS professional development program.
Oct 2021
Android App Development using Kotlin, 85/100
Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay (MHRD, Government of India)
Leadership and community
2019 to 2022
Technical Team Head, Graphix Club
PES Modern College of Engineering
Organized technical workshops and quizzes for the club.
2025
Client-facing project lead, Crossing x WPI GQP
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Owned sponsor communication, acceptance tests, weekly demos and final handoff for a four-person team.
2026 to present
Member, Google Cloud x NVIDIA developer community
Google Cloud and NVIDIA
Golden Ticket Contest honorable mention, NVIDIA GTC 2026.
What colleagues say
“She is an exceptional Lead DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Azure, AWS, and robust experience in designing and maintaining reliable CI/CD pipelines. One of her standout achievements was her outstanding work in segregating variable groups and restructuring the release pipelines to efficiently manage more than 10 code repositories.”
“She grew exceptionally well in Azure DevOps and also had other talents like AI/ML and Python. She was completely familiar with all the pipelines and repositories in the project we worked on and implemented optimisations to smoothen the feature delivery from Dev to Production environments.”
Certifications
31 certificates and badges, newest first.
Deploy Faster GenAI with NVIDIA NIM on GKE
Google Cloud x NVIDIA learning pathway
Feb 2026
Introduction to Inference on GPUs
Google Cloud x NVIDIA learning pathway
Feb 2026
Speed Up Data Analytics on GPUs
Google Cloud x NVIDIA learning pathway
Feb 2026
Google Cloud x NVIDIA developer community member
Google Cloud and NVIDIA
Jan 2026
Top Talent 2024
Persistent Systems
May 2024
Bravo Individual Award, Process and Technology Excellence
Persistent Systems
Dec 2023
Bravo Team Award, Teamwork and Dedication
Persistent Systems
Dec 2022
GEMS Training Program (Graduate Engineers with Multidimensional Skills)
Persistent Systems
Jun 2022
AI For Everyone
DeepLearning.AI on Coursera
May 2021
Credential B8N3LBXEWHSM
Azure Machine Learning Development: Basic Concepts
LinkedIn Learning
Mar 2021
Credential AbT195j3moT1H1zbgmnLUgoRdlEP
Supervised Learning Essential Training
LinkedIn Learning
Mar 2021
Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
LinkedIn Learning
Mar 2021
Learning Python
LinkedIn Learning
Mar 2021
Python Object-Oriented Programming
LinkedIn Learning
Mar 2021
Microsoft AI Classroom Series
Microsoft x NASSCOM
Mar 2021
App Development for Beginners
JigsawMindz
Mar 2021
Web Development Internship Selection
Internshala (Flavalon IT)
Mar 2021
Introduction to Virtual Reality
University of London, Goldsmiths on Coursera
Dec 2020
Credential 6AHCC7APLNXK
Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things
University System of Georgia (Kennesaw State) on Coursera
Nov 2020
Credential Z9CRVXVGS2MG
Python (Basic)
HackerRank
Nov 2020
Credential B3938933B424
Java (Basic)
HackerRank
Nov 2020
Credential 856810A954C4
Problem Solving (Basic)
HackerRank
Nov 2020
Python Programming
Skill assessment certificate
Aug 2020
Web Design Course
Skill assessment certificate
May 2020
Credential UP722Q-CE000122
National Level Technical Contest on Web Design
Computer Society of India x TechGig
May 2020
Technology Awareness Quiz on Data Structures Using C
PCCOE IT Department, ITSA and IEEE PCCOE Student Branch
May 2020
FUEL Aptitude Championship
National level competition
May 2020
C Training
Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay
Sep 2019
Data Science with Python
Technogeeks, Pune
Jun 2019
C Language Course
Learn Well Technocraft, Pune
Apr 2019
Credential 21716301TD
Web Development Training
Internshala Trainings
Sep 2018
Activity
Jun 2026
Paper accepted at the ICML 2026 FoGen Workshop
Publication, Online
Interpreting Latent CoT Reasoning as Dynamical Systems accepted as a poster at the ICML 2026 Workshop on Foundations of Deep Generative Models.
Jun 2026
ICML acceptance post reached 8,000+ impressions on LinkedIn
Post, Online
90 reactions, 9 comments and 5 reposts on the announcement of the FoGen Workshop poster.
May 2026
Google I/O 2026
Conference, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Attended with the Google Cloud x NVIDIA community five days after graduating. Sessions on the agentic AI era, Physical AI with Boston Dynamics and DeepMind, on-device AI with Gemma and Google AI Edge, and the TPU software stack. Tried the Android XR glasses and spoke with Ian Ballantyne and Gus Martins of the Gemma team.
May 2026
Google Cloud x NVIDIA community meetup
Meetup, Bay Area, CA
In-person meetup marking 100K+ developers in the community's first year.
Apr 2026
ODSC AI East 2026
Conference, Boston, MA
Three days of sessions on optimization, voice foundation models, decision latency in enterprise AI, sub-500 ms inference architecture, self-improving agents and LLM inference economics; published a detailed recap.
Apr 2026
WPI 2025-26 GQP GRIE Showcase
Showcase, Worcester, MA
Presented the SkipLegal multi-agent immigration document validation system to eleven industry judges; a judge publicly called it one of the strong projects of the showcase.
Feb 2026
Three Google Cloud x NVIDIA learning pathways
Learning, Online
NVIDIA NIM on GKE, Introduction to Inference on GPUs, Speed Up Data Analytics on GPUs.
Nov 2025
NVIDIA AI Nemotron Labs: Bash computer-use agent
Livestream, Online
Built along with Nemotron Nano 9B v2 and LangGraph.
Jun 2021
Seminar: Development Tools for AR Applications
Talk, PES Modern College of Engineering, Pune
Delivered a seminar on the AR development toolchain used for Map.AR.
Mar 2021
App Development workshop
Workshop, JigsawMindz
May 2020
Web Design workshop
Workshop, MIT Arts, Commerce and Science College, Alandi
Sep 2017
Auto Wagen workshop
Workshop, Team Pegasus, PES Modern College of Engineering