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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