Hello, I am Taranjeet 👋

• Currently building embedchain.ai
• Writing keepingupwith.ai - AI newsletter which covers coding & growth related insights from popular AI projects. 1000+ subscribers across Substack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp.
• Built cookup.ai - AI App Store; 400K+ users monthly with zero marketing spend (via SEO)
• Worked as a Senior Product Manager at Khatabook (YC & Sequoia backed, valued at $600M)
• Worked as a software engineer at Gradeup (acquired by Byju's, valued at ~$23B) and Paytm (Indian Stock Exchange listed, ~$6B market cap)

Professional Experience

• Built and scaled a ML based doubt resolution app for K-12 students while working at Gradeup. The app lets students point their phone's camera at a problem and get an instant answer. It was featured at Google I/O 2019. The app has 1M+ installs
• Helped develop an educational product for people with autism while working at Inclusys. Callaghan Innovation (a crown entity of New Zealand) backed it. It has ~3K users worldwide
• Developed frontend components for LabXchange (Harvard's science classroom) while working at OpenCraft. LabXchange gets ~125K monthly users worldwide

Open Source Contributions

EvalAI

• Co-developed EvalAI from scratch
• Implemented parallelised backend which reduced the submission evaluation time by 80% compared to Microsoft Codalab
• Mentored students during Google Summer of Code 2017, attended GSOC Mentor Summit 2017 held at Google US office (by invitation)
• ~42K monthly users worldwide; 1.4K stars and 600+ forks on GitHub; popular amongst CMU, Stanford, Facebook, Google

Hindi Tokenizer (NLP)

• Created a tokenisation module for the Hindi language; used for NLP tasks
• 75+ stars and 70+ forks on GitHub; ~400 monthly users

Notable Contributions

• Refactored code linting pipeline for Dropbox's Zulip (16.2K+ stars on GitHub)
• Created dashboards for tutors for PythonIndia's Wye
• Improved test cases for Mozilla's Fjord
• Open sourced several packages at Paytm and Gradeup

Entrepreneurial Attempt

• [2020 - 2021] Developed an android app marketplace which provides developers with an alternate distribution platform. So far, the marketplace has got 3 million organic users and 1.9 million app downloads

Other Contributions

Book

• Co-authored a chapter on Industrial Applications of NLP in Search for Practical Natural Language Processing, published by O'Reilly along with authors from Google AI, CMU, MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research

Blog

• Wrote several blogs about Django and Elasticsearch

Connect With Me

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