About

Orchid Majumder is a highly accomplished Senior CV/ML Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the industry. She is currently working at Amazon as a Senior Research Engineer, where she is part of the computer vision science team and works on meta-learning and continual learning algorithms. Orchid has contributed significantly to launching multiple AI services within AWS, including SageMaker and Rekognition. Her research interests revolve around multi-task, meta, and continual learning in computer vision. Orchid has a strong background in machine translation and hyperparameter optimization. She has also worked on building scalable backend services as part of Amazon India. As a Research Engineer at Amazon, Orchid was part of the core team that launched Amazon SageMaker in 2017. She spent the majority of her time developing NLP algorithms like Seq2Seq/Sequence2Vec, which are provided as built-in algorithms in Amazon SageMaker. She bootstrapped and led the Inference-Pipeline feature and was also one of the main contributors towards bringing XGBoost into SageMaker. Prior to her current role, Orchid worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon India Local Finds team, where she acted as a tech-lead for seller registration & order management. She led a large-scale cross-team project to integrate the whole experience into the official Amazon.in website. She was also one of the contributors to building a rule-based price recommender system for helping sellers decide on a price while creating a product listing. Orchid holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Jadavpur University. She is highly skilled in research scientist, AWS, ML, AI, computer vision, Sagemaker, hyperparameter, XGBoost, backend, NLP, and software engineering. Overall, Orchid is a highly motivated and skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality work. She is passionate about using her expertise to develop innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.