Priya Sharma

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Me

Machine learning engineer with 7+ years taking models from research to production in NLP, recommendation and forecasting. Combines solid statistics with MLOps discipline and has published at applied-ML venues.

Work Experience

Senior ML EngineerApr 2022 - Present
Quantia Analytics · City, Country
  • Shipped a two-tower retrieval and ranking system that lifted click-through rate by 18% in A/B tests.
  • Fine-tuned an LLM for support triage with 91% routing accuracy, saving 14 FTE of manual sorting.
  • Built a feature store and model registry, cutting time from experiment to production from 6 weeks to 5 days.
Data ScientistJun 2019 - Mar 2022
Meridian Insights · City, Country
  • Built gradient-boosted demand forecasts for 40k SKUs, reducing stock-outs by 23%.
  • Designed an experimentation platform with CUPED variance reduction used by 9 product teams.
Data AnalystJul 2017 - May 2019
Northwind Research · City, Country
  • Automated survey analytics in Python and SQL, cutting report turnaround from 5 days to 1.

Models & Publications

Real-time Recommendation EnginePyTorch · Faiss · Kafka

Two-tower retrieval with online re-ranking serving 3k requests/s at a p99 latency of 40 ms.

LLM Support TriageTransformers · LoRA · FastAPI

Fine-tuned a 7B model with guardrails, reaching 91% routing accuracy and running on-prem.