SJ

Samvit Jain

Software Engineer, AI/ML at Google

Greater Seattle Area

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  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • Software Engineer, AI/ML

    2022

    AI/ML engineer on the Payments Risk team. As ML area owner, drove multi-year effort to overhaul Google’s approach to chargeback disputes: - Developed & launched models to (1) identify chargeback abuse and (2) estimate Google's likelihood of winning a dispute. Replaced broken legacy policies with a simple, maintainable ML-based system. - Impact: Recouped millions in GMV and fees savings for Google annually via new model launches and better chargeback defense decisions. - Contributions: Selected features, developed datasets, trained models, defined impact metrics, implemented policies, analyzed experiments, drove alignment, and shepherded new model launches.

  • Applied Scientist

    2019 - 2022

    Co-developed and launched Amazon Lookout for Vision (https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-vision/), a new AWS service for identifying defects and anomalies in images of manufactured products. As part of this: - Developed nearest-neighbor based semi-supervised and supervised anomaly detection models - Contributed to active learning system for customer label set expansion - Built domain-specific object detector based on Detectron2 & demoed to manufacturing partners - Developed a low-shot benchmark for model evaluations

2018 - 2019

  • Research Intern

    2018 - 2019

    Large-scale video analytics. Designed system for efficiently executing video queries on large camera networks. First author on papers at HotMobile 2019 and SEC 2020 (Best Paper Award).

2017 - 2019

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    2017 - 2019

    Accelerating deep neural net inference on video via feature warping, optical flow, H.264 block motion vectors, and feature fusion. First author on papers at CVPR '19 (oral) and ECCV '18 workshop.

2016 - 2016

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Re-architected full text search feature backend (Apache Solr instance) as a multi-tenant containerized microservice in Kubernetes. Shipped product update to 1000s of live users. Received full-time offer.

2014 - 2015

  • Founder and CEO

    2014 - 2015

    Developed video-link messaging app for iOS and Android. Reached over 2000 users in 80+ countries. Roles: built iOS app, backend, web presence. Hired & managed Android engineer.