Siddarth Ramesh

Siddarth Ramesh is a technology professional with expertise in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as the Head of Machine Learning at Zuma, a YC-backed and Andreessen Horowitz-funded startup, where he has been working since March 2022.1 In this role, he leads the development and strategy of Kelsey AI, an enterprise LLM solution, and manages a team of 7 ML Engineers and Data Scientists.1

Career Highlights

Current Positions::

• Head of Machine Learning at Zuma (March 2022 - Present)
• Contributing Writer at Towards Data Science (August 2022 - Present)

Previous Experience::

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer at ServiceNow (December 2020 - February 2022)
• Data Scientist at Microsoft (May 2015 - November 2020)
• Data Scientist at Revolution Analytics (November 2014 - May 2015)

Education and Skills

Siddarth holds a Master of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California.1 He has certifications in Generative AI with Large Language Models and a Deep Learning Specialization from Coursera.1

Expertise and Interests

Siddarth is passionate about responsibly leveraging Machine Learning to build next-generation customer experiences. He specializes in being at the intersection of engineering, ML, and product development.1 His experience spans various domains, including:

• Natural Language Understanding
• Recommendation systems
• Named Entity Recognition (NER)
• Azure AI solutions across industries like healthcare, education, retail, and finance

Throughout his career, Siddarth has worked on significant projects such as developing model evaluation pipelines for chatbots, powering MSN's news article recommendations, and contributing to Bing search results improvements.1