Ashwin Hegde

Ashwin Hegde is a software professional currently working at PayPal as a Member of Technical Staff - I.12 He is part of the Compute Platform Risk Engineering group, where he collaborates closely with the Data Science and Research team.1

Professional Background

Ashwin's work at PayPal involves:

• Building platforms, SDK/APIs/UI, pipelines, and automation for AIML deliveries on MLOps
• Working on model repository and inferencing in pre-production and production environments
• Designing, developing, and maintaining distributed system platforms and services1

He describes himself as a "software craftsman" who enjoys the process of building software. Ashwin also serves as a team mentor and trainer, helping to scale up domain, technical, and systems knowledge within his team.1

Interests and Achievements

Outside of his professional work, Ashwin has several interests:

• Science: He is fascinated by gravity, quantum physics, and mechanics
• Physics: He has a particular interest in Einstein's special and general theory of relativity
• Engineering: He is intrigued by nature-inspired engineering (Biomimicry)1

Ashwin has also contributed to the tech community in various ways:

• Filed a patent for "Optimal compressed feature representation deployment for automated refresh in event driven deep learning paradigm"
• Published a video with Packt on "GraphQL a better REST"1

Personal Interests

In his free time, Ashwin enjoys:

• Bird watching and photography
• Studying ornithology to improve his domain knowledge and research

He invites people to follow his photography on Instagram at @exploregeographics.1