Sankalp Garg
Co-Founder at Optexity
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSankalp Garg is a machine learning-focused founder and technologist with 8 years of experience spanning research, internships, and a current startup leadership role in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Co-Founder and CEO of Optexity, he leads the development of AI-powered solutions and product strategy, combining hands-on ML with entrepreneurship. Previously, he built and deployed ML systems at Apple as a Machine Learning Engineer, with earlier stints as an Applied Scientist Intern at AWS and as a researcher across academia and industry (Microsoft Research, USC, IIT Delhi, NUS). His work covers edge ML, phoneme/keyword detection, deep reinforcement learning for planning on graphs, and explainable AI for food recommendations, reflecting a breadth of application domains. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, and was selected for the IUSSTF-Viterbi Scholarship in 2019. Based in the SF Bay Area, he combines rigorous academic training with a track record of shipping ML-powered solutions from research to production.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)High School, 95.8%, High School, 95.8% at Delhi Public School, FaridabadMaster of Science - MS, Machine Learning, 4.11, Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning, 4.11 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (60)
sac9
mujoco9
q-learning8
actor-critic8
cql8
dqn8
ddpg8
gymnasium8
image7
hydra7
pytorch7
benchmark7
image-library7
reinforcement-learning7
png7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dair-iitd/symnet
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:8 commits in 9 months
INK-USC/DArtNet
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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