Deepa K.

Deepa K.

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AI/ML Career Coach | Director at Koru | 600+ Professionals Mentored

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Studied at BYU Marriott School of Business

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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!

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Work Experience

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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

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Cofounder + Coach/Consultant

Touch Infinity Consulting Inc.

March 2023 - Present

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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”.

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