Endorsed Friends
Last Updated: February 2024
Talented friends I can endorse for their work – either because I’ve worked with them or know them socially.
I’m happy to connect you with them if you’re looking to hire or collaborate with them, with double opt-in from both sides.
| Name | Skills | Remarks/Notes | Endorsed By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohit Bhardwaj | Data Engineer | Worked with him at verloop.io, solving analytics problems | Nirant |
| Harsh Gupta | Generalist Backend engineer, Search, LLMs, Data Augumentation and Pipeline | Ex-JPMC, Helpshift, GSoC mentor and student. Built felvin.com one of the first no-code tools for building AI applications, raised angel investments for it. Know him socially. | Nirant |
| Heer Shingala | B2B SaaS Marketing | Know her socially | Nirant |
| Dhruv Anand | Search Consultant, VectorDB & LLM | ex-CMU, Google & Meta Know him via the GenerativeAI Community | Nirant |
| Sudarshan Chandra Babu | Generative Image Models | Former Enterpreneur, know him via the GenerativeAI Community | Nirant |
| Anudeep | ML Engineer | Was the category winner at the GenerativeAI Hackathon | Nirant |
| Kshitij | ML Engineer | - | Sudarshan |
| Eepsita Gupta | SaaS Positioning | Has worked with the likes of Capillary, Vymo, DHL. Know her socially | Nirant |
| Nivedita Prabhu | Brand, Advertising & Marketing | Mollen-Lowe Lintas, Ogilvy & inMobi alum, dear friend | Nirant |
| Shubhi Saxena | Engineer-turned-early-Product: PLG, Pre-Sales, Sales or Marketing | Was an anchoring and energetic friend for the GenerativeAI DeepHack which we did together. Update: Has joined Quizizz in the Product Management Organization | Nirant |
| Preet Singh Khalsa | Generalist Extraordinaire | Ex-CRED, Accel, Update: Has moved to VC firm EQT in Europe after the endorsement | Nirant |
| Kumar Shivendu | Product engineer with interest in Devtools, Search & LLMs | Builds auth devtools at SuperTokens, he was the dev behind this blog. Update: Has joined Qdrant.tech after the endorsement! | Nirant |
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Speakers, Mentors and Jury for GenerativeAI
These are folks whose functional skills have been endorsed by me. I don’t have a personal relationship with all of them, but I’ve seen their work and can vouch for their skills. Please feel free to reach out to them for speaking, mentoring or judging opportunities.
| Name | Organisation | Designation | Social Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usha Rengaraju | Exa Protocol | Chief Data Scientist | LinkedIn Twitter |
| Srujana Merugu | Amazon | Principal Data Scientist | |
| Soumyadeep Mukherjee | Dashtoon | Co-Founder | |
| Soumendra Dhanee | VJT Inc | Chief Scientist | |
| Shubha Shedthikere | Swiggy | Senior Manager - Data Science | |
| Shruti Rijhwani | Google AI | Research Scientist | |
| Shreya Jain | Simpl | Principal Product Manager | |
| Shankar Natarajan | Microsoft | Principal Product Manager | |
| Priyanka Bhatt | Walmart Global Tech India | Senior Manager II, Data Science, Conversational AI | |
| Pratyush Kumar | SarvamAI | Co-founder | |
| Pratik Desai | KissanAI | Co-founder | |
| Mansi Gupta | Google Workspace | Software Engineer on LLMs | |
| Manisha Raisinghania | LogiNext | Co-Founder | |
| Lavanya Tekumalla | AiFonic Labs | Co-founder | |
| Lalit Pagaria | Oraika | Co-Founder | |
| Heer Shingala | Independent Consultant | Marketing Consultant | |
| Heena Bansal | InMobi | Senior Data Scientist | |
| Dr. Sumod Mohan | AutoInfer | Co-Founder | |
| Divya Tak | Joyous Studio | Co-founder/Creative Artist | |
| Dev Aggarwal | Gooey.ai | Co-founder | |
| Chirasmita Mallick | G2 | Principal Data Scientist | LinkedIn Email |
| Aparna Gupta | Microsoft | Principal Software Engineer Manager | |
| Aishwarya Goel | Inferless | Co-founder |