About

Dheeraj Kalmekolan is a Software Developer at Snap, who is passionate about designing efficient, low-cost technologies for common people. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University. Dheeraj has a keen interest in Machine Learning and Software Development, and he is always looking for challenging problems to solve in these areas. With his analytical skills, Dheeraj can analyze diverse problems ranging from Olympiad Mathematical problems to post-game analysis of Manchester United. He has worked extensively on Deep Learning in Vision, Parsing, Machine Translation, and Language Modelling. Dheeraj has a total of 5.94 years of relevant experience in Software Engineering, Deep Learning, ML, and UI. Before joining Snap, Dheeraj worked at Amazon, where he was a Software Developer working on APIs for the privacy team to redact customer data from Alexa before reaching annotators. He worked on various projects, including improving audit reports, onboarding new customers, adding throttling engines, and onboarding new models to the team. He also worked at Microsoft, where he was a Software Developer in the partner center billing and payments team, working over API, Data, and UI platforms. Apart from his professional life, Dheeraj has some fun facts about himself. He is an avid Electric Guitar player, mostly playing Metal and Rock music. He can also do a very good Liverpool accent and writes a lot of limericks, mostly naive. Dheeraj's ultimate goal is to build low-cost technologies that can work miracles and help people in areas where technology has not yet reached. He is always open to new challenges and opportunities to improve his skills and knowledge in the field of Machine Learning and Software Development.