Gowtham S
@gowthams1
Machine learning engineer specializing in LLM pretraining, data pipelines, and scalable model evaluation.
What I'm looking for
I am a machine learning research engineer focused on large language model pretraining, evaluation, and high-performance data pipelines. I have contributed to training and analyzing model-scaling behavior across hundreds of millions to billions of parameters, enhanced architectures with multi-headed latent attention and key-value caching, and led dataset preparation using CC-Net, GoClassy, Ungoliant and custom filters.
I build production-ready tooling and pipelines in Rust, Go and Python — including exact line-level deduplication, MinHash near-duplicate detection, asynchronous Hugging Face-compatible pretraining pipelines, and domain-adapted RAG systems. I have experience finetuning large models (e.g., Qwen-8B), pretraining code models, and deploying retrieval workflows for PDF and conversational RAG applications.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Machine Learning Research Engineer
BluBridge
Mar 2025 - Present (1 year)
Contributed to training and evaluation of large LLMs (124M–1B+ parameters), conducted comparative experiments between LLAMA 3.1 and OLMA, and applied scaling-law methods to predict model performance while improving architectures and caching to optimize runtime.
Machine Learning Engineer
Zeb
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 (7 months)
Designed Rust-based data pipelines and deduplication systems and built RAG applications for PDF search and code-generation tools, improving retrieval and developer workflow automation.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Jerusalem College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
Grade: CGPA – 8.4
Activities and societies: Machine learning research, LLM pretraining and evaluation, dataset preparation, model architecture enhancements
Pursuing B.E. in Computer Science with a reported CGPA of 8.4 and involvement in machine learning research and model training projects.
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Software and tools used professionally
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