Sahil Dua
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSahil Dua is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with 12 years of experience advancing multimodal understanding, Retrieval-Augmented Generation and reinforcement learning while building scalable systems that enable state-of-the-art AI. Previously at Google he led teams to develop foundational embedding models and full LLM lifecycles—covering data pipelines, synthetic data, custom architectures, evaluation, and low-latency, high-throughput serving across Alphabet products. An active open-source contributor, he has full-stack and back-end contributions to projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers, google/go-github and hound-search, where he improved parsing, concurrency and performance. Based in Zurich, he pairs a B.Tech in Electronics & Communications (with distinction) with a pragmatic engineering style that spans front-end UX work to production-grade ML infrastructure. He is known for bridging research and production—bringing hands-on systems optimizations to make cutting-edge models deployable and reliable at scale.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class Honours with Distinction, B.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class Honours with Distinction at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyHigher Secondary, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, Valedictorian, Higher Secondary, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, Valedictorian at Govt. Senior Secondary School, Tanda
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (42)
apim10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
github10
handlebars10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
c1110
ui-design10
perl10
c1710
uid10
instant-view10
grammars10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:184 commits, 72 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily focused on enhancing the "Frequency" instant answer within the `duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies` repository. They refactored the module, updating it to utilize different templates (list and record). Additionally, they implemented improvements such as adding a subtitle, correcting tests, and updating the title to be more relevant to user queries. Furthermore, the user worked on initializing and implementing a JavaScript minifier tool.
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
google/go-github
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 130 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily contributed to the `google/go-github` repository by implementing and adding support for new features of the GitHub API, such as the commit search and pull request review features. Their work involved adding new endpoints and data structures to interact with the API, specifically in the areas of search and pull request reviews. Furthermore, they made improvements related to error handling and ensuring code consistency across multiple files within the repository. They also added support for community health metrics preview API, archiving repositories, and other minor fixes to improve the functionality of the library.
golangapigithub-api-v3api-v3go-library
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