
Deepa K.
1,245 min coaching
AI/ML Career Coach | Director at Koru | 600+ Professionals Mentored
Studied at BYU Marriott School of Business
Works at Koru
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Deepa’s AI & ML Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Director
100+ people coached for AI & ML Engineering
Welcome to my profile! With a robust background in AI and machine learning, I am passionate about helping others excel in this dynamic field. As the Director of AI Solutions Engineering at Koru, I bridge AI strategy with hands-on engineering to build scalable AI-native business units. My experience as a co-founder and coach at Touch Infinity Consulting, along with my role as a Data Science Trainer/Coach at Great Learning, has allowed me to mentor over 600 industry professionals, earning an average review score of 4.81/5. I specialize in guiding clients through complex ML topics, from Python for Data Science to advanced algorithms like CNNs. Whether you're looking to break into AI/ML or advance your career, I'm here to help you achieve your goals. Let's connect and create a tailored plan for your success!
Deepa can help with:
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Cover Letters
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Work Experience

Director AI Solutions Engineering
Koru
April 2025 - Present
I bridge AI strategy with hands-on engineering to build scalable AI-native business units & ventures. I work closely with early-stage teams to define where AI drives value, design the technical blueprint, and bring AI products to life

Cofounder + Coach/Consultant
Touch Infinity Consulting Inc.
March 2023 - Present
Program Manager, Data Science
Great Learning
July 2022 - Present
- Mentor for the Applied Data Science Program offered by Massachusetts Institute of technology ( MIT) - Mentored more than 600+ industry professionals for 250+ hours with an average top review score of 4.81/5 - Coached industry professionals with hands-on case studies on different ML topics ranging from Python for Data Science to Recommendations and CNN algorithms
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Affinity
June 2021 - May 2024
- Led the development of the machine learning strategy and roadmap as the first ML hire of the company and grew the team from 1 to 5 members in 2 years. Owned multiple components of ML Projects building product criteria, scoping, resource allocation, deliverable timelines, tech documentation, using SOTA algorithms. - Built a prototype that utilizes transformer-based BERT models and newsletter scraping to extract funding data resulting in 30K data points from five newsletters. Formulated metrics for data quality for 1B data points to help improve accuracy of models. - Built an LLM-Powered ML pipeline to create an AI assistant to help venture capitalists get information about startups to invest in. - Spearhead the development of an in-house ML Product for entity resolution, a core capability of the product, by building an auto labeling tool using LLM in a sprint. - Interviewed 30+ applicants for Director, Staff and Senior Engineering roles for Machine Learning and Data engineering. - Developed a zero-shot learning model that achieved 80%+ precision in identifying seniority and function among 500MM job titles. - Improved the quality of the CRM product by identifying incorrect merged records from 100 MM data points.

Machine Learning Researcher
Health Tech Startup
August 2020 - April 2021
- Health Tech Startup aiming to simplify healthcare access by providing rapid and accurate disease screening services. - Created a cough detector model using deep learning which can reveal whether an audio sample has cough with at least 90% accuracy that powered a clinically approved covid detector, the core technology of the application. - Led the development of a deep learning pipeline that can classify cough samples into COVID-19 and non-COVID-19

Product Lead - Machine Learning & Ads
HealthTech Startup
April 2020 - July 2020
- Created the machine learning team, led strategic planning of the roadmap and helped hire 8 data science researchers and machine learning engineers working across 3 continents and 4 countries.
Education
BYU Marriott School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Operations and Analytics
2016 - 2018
Grade: 3.62/4 Activities and societies: Partner at Cougar Strategy Group, Vice President of Strategy and Consulting Club, PWC Strategy Case Competition - 3rd Prize, HR Case Competition- 2nd Prize
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Production Engineering
2004 - 2008
Grade: CGPA 8.91 , Rank 4 out of 60 Activities and societies: • Co-President of Dance Club. • Overall Co-coordinator of Production Department for Inter-department literary & cultural competition. • Wisdom Club (Community service-oriented) • National Service Scheme member. • Completed a 2 month “Summer Fellowship” with stipend at IIT Chennai on “Electro-pneumatic Brakes”.