About

Lakshmi Narayan Jayapal is a skilled Machine Learning Engineer with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently employed at Zoho, he holds the position of Member of Technical Staff. His expertise lies in machine learning, computer vision, software engineering, and data analysis. Lakshmi is also proficient in programming languages such as Python, SQL, and JavaScript. At Zoho, Lakshmi has worked on several projects, including Few-shot object counting, where he trained a deep learning model to count the number of objects in a query image. He also worked on Self-supervised pre-training, where he trained a backbone convnet to generate rich visual features for images without the use of labelled images. In the past, Lakshmi worked as a Marketing Analyst at Zoho, where he ran performance audits and took actions to improve user-perceived load performance metrics like LCP, First input delay, and time-to-interactive. He also ran Accessibility audits and took actions to make the website usable for everyone. Additionally, he formulated hypotheses and ran A/B testing and optimization experiments to improve website engagement and conversion metrics. Lakshmi also rewrote the CSS using BEM methodology to make it more lean and performant. He developed numerous static webpages across the domain and researched and wrote content for numerous marketing collaterals from websites, blogs, and community posts. Lakshmi holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anna University. He is proficient in various tech stacks such as Scikit, Pandas, Pytorch, Neural Networks, Jupyter, Random Forest, Seaborn, Spark, and TensorFlow. Overall, Lakshmi is a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer with a strong background in data analysis and software engineering. He is a valuable asset to any team and can contribute significantly to the growth and success of a company.