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README 

        
Hello, I am Taranjeet 👋



* Currently building [mem0.ai](https://mem0.ai)

* Writing [keepingupwith.ai](https://keepingupwith.ai) - AI newsletter which covers coding & growth related insights from popular AI projects. 1000+ subscribers across Substack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp.

* Built [cookup.ai](https://cookup.ai) - GPT App Store; 1M+ users with zero marketing spend (via SEO)

* Worked as a Senior Product Manager at [Khatabook](https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/23/indias-khatabook-raises-100-million-for-its-bookkeeping-platform-for-merchants/) (YC & Sequoia backed, valued at $600M)

* Worked as a software engineer at [Gradeup](https://inc42.com/buzz/byjus-acquires-online-preparation-platform-gradeup-rebrands-it-as-byjus-exam-prep/) (acquired by Byju's, valued at ~$23B) and [Paytm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paytm) (Indian Stock Exchange listed, ~$6B market cap)



## Professional Experience



* Built and scaled a [ML based doubt resolution app](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=883796972040441) for K-12 students while working at Gradeup. The app lets students point their phone's camera at a problem and get an instant answer. It was featured at [Google I/O 2019](https://www.asianage.com/technology/in-other-news/090519/google-io-2019-featured-two-indian-companies-for-excellent-use-of-machine-learning.html). The app has 1M+ installs

* Helped develop an [educational product](https://www.talkwithmeapp.com/) for people with autism while working at Inclusys. Callaghan Innovation (a crown entity of New Zealand) backed it. It has ~3K users worldwide

* Developed frontend components for [LabXchange](https://www.labxchange.org/) (Harvard's science classroom) while working at OpenCraft. LabXchange gets ~125K monthly users worldwide



## Open Source Contributions



### EvalAI



* Co-developed [EvalAI](https://eval.ai/) from scratch

* Implemented parallelised backend which reduced the submission evaluation time by 80% compared to [Microsoft Codalab](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/codalab/)

* [Mentored](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/4507838760091648) students during Google Summer of Code 2017, attended GSOC Mentor Summit 2017 held at Google US office (by invitation)

* __\~42K__ monthly users worldwide; __1.4K__ stars and 600+ forks on [GitHub](https://github.com/Cloud-CV/EvalAI); popular amongst CMU, Stanford, Facebook, Google



### Hindi Tokenizer (NLP)



* Created a [tokenisation module](https://github.com/taranjeet/hindi-tokenizer) for the Hindi language; used for NLP tasks

* __75+__ stars and 70+ forks on GitHub; __\~400__ monthly users



### Notable Contributions



* [Refactored code linting pipeline](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commits?author=taranjeet) for Dropbox's Zulip (16.2K+ stars on GitHub)

* [Created dashboards for tutors](https://github.com/pythonindia/wye/commits?author=taranjeet) for PythonIndia's Wye

* [Improved test cases](https://github.com/mozilla/fjord/commits?author=taranjeet) for Mozilla's Fjord

* Open sourced [several](https://github.com/paytm/django-supermigrate/commits?author=taranjeet) [packages](https://github.com/paytm/django-paytm-oauth/commits?author=taranjeet) at [Paytm](https://github.com/paytm/dj-j-ka-bachcha-field/commits?author=taranjeet) and [Gradeup](https://github.com/gradeup/youknowwho-gui/commits?author=taranjeet)



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## Entrepreneurial Attempt



* ___[2020 - 2021]___ Developed an android app marketplace which provides developers with an alternate distribution platform. So far, the marketplace has got 3 million organic users and 1.9 million app downloads



## Other Contributions



### Book



* Co-authored a chapter on _Industrial Applications of NLP in Search_ for [Practical Natural Language Processing](https://www.amazon.in/Practical-Natural-Language-Processing-Comprehensive/dp/9385889184/), published by O'Reilly along with authors from Google AI, CMU, MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research



### Blog



* Wrote several blogs about [Django](https://allaboutdjango.com/) and [Elasticsearch](https://taranjeet.medium.com/elasticsearch-building-autocomplete-functionality-494fcf81a7cf)



## Connect With Me



I love connecting with people. You can reach out to me via [email](mailto:[email protected]).





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