https://github.com/puneetsl/puneetsl

https://github.com/puneetsl/puneetsl

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/puneetsl/puneetsl
• Owner: puneetsl
• Created: 2025-06-14T02:54:06.000Z (7 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-25T19:29:32.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-25T20:29:44.873Z (7 months ago)
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• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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README

          
# 👋 Hi, I'm Puneet Ludu

Welcome to my GitHub!  

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer based in New York, NY, with over 11 years of experience building robust AI and data-driven systems that power products at scale. I thrive on delivering high-impact solutions, mentoring teams, and contributing to open source.

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## 🚀 About Me

- 🧑‍💻 **Current Role:** Machine Learning Engineer at [Zillow](https://www.zillow.com) (Zestimate Team)

- 📍 **Location:** NY/NJ

- 🎓 **Education:** MS in Computer Science (SUNY Buffalo), B.Tech (JIIT, India)

- 💡 **Mission:** Architecting intelligent, scalable ML platforms and products that solve real-world problems

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## 🛠️ Top Skills

**Languages:**  

`Python` `Java` `C/C++` `Bash` `JavaScript` `HTML` `SQL`

**Frameworks & Tools:**  

`PyTorch` `TensorFlow` `PySpark` `FastAPI` `Django`  

`KubeFlow` `Metaflow` `DataBricks` `Docker` `Kubernetes`  

`Terraform` `Gitlab CI` `MongoDB` `DocumentDB`

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## 💼 Experience Highlights

### Zillow (2021 - Present)

- **Realtime Valuation Platform:** Designed and led an interactive CMA with property embeddings and comp APIs, boosting agent/buyer engagement and unlocking new revenue streams.

- **ML Infra Modernization:** Modernized valuation pipelines with Python, AWS, Docker, Terraform, saving $500k+ annually.

- **Team Impact:** Established ML coding standards, mentored new hires, and reduced on-call alerts by 95%.

### OkCupid / Match.com (2020 - 2021)

- **Revenue Optimization:** Built ML pipelines to optimize subscription discounts, increasing revenue by 6% via A/B testing.

- **Full-cycle ownership:** Feature engineering, modeling, deployment, and monitoring.

### FactSet (2015 - 2020)

- **NLP & CV Projects:** Speaker identification for earnings calls, fuzzy doc deduplication, company fact extraction, query expansion, real-time formula ranking.

- **Big Data:** Built scalable ETL and search features for financial data products.

### Tata Research (2011 - 2013)

- **Pattern Mining:** Time-series event detection, data harmonization frameworks for large enterprise data.

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## 🌟 Featured Projects

- [**Lotion**](https://github.com/puneetsl/lotion): Unofficial Notion.so desktop app for Linux (2K+ ⭐, 60K+ downloads)

- [**Romadeva**](https://github.com/puneetsl/romadeva): Roman-to-Devanagari script converter (used by Translators Without Borders)

- [**jTextBrew**](https://github.com/puneetsl/jTextBrew): Java library for fuzzy string matching

- [**Quena**](https://github.com/puneetsl/quena): QA system indexing 1.6M Wikipedia docs

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## 📝 Publications

- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NrYKcaMAAAAJ)

  - “Inferring Latent Attributes of an Indian Twitter user…” (ACM Hypertext 2015)

  - “Inferring gender of a Twitter user…” (CORR 2014)

  - “Architecture for Automated Tagging and Clustering of Song Files…” (IJCSI 2010)

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## 📫 Connect With Me

[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-puneetsl-181717?style=flat&logo=github)](https://github.com/puneetsl)

[![LinkedIn](https://img.shields.io/badge/LinkedIn-puneetsl-0077b5?style=flat&logo=linkedin)](https://linkedin.com/in/puneetsl)

[![Kaggle](https://img.shields.io/badge/Kaggle-puneetsl-20beff?style=flat&logo=kaggle)](https://kaggle.com/puneetsl)

[![Website](https://img.shields.io/badge/Website-puneet.io-0a192f?style=flat&logo=firefox-browser)](https://puneet.io)

✉️ **Email:** puneet.ludu@gmail.com

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## ⚡ Fun Fact & Community

- Organizer @ [MUFin Workshop](https://sites.google.com/view/mufin-aaai-2023/) (AAAI 2023, PKDD 2022): Fostering research at the intersection of ML and finance.

- Always open to collaboration or a chat about ML, data, or new tech!

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> “Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” — Cory House