Kavya Komal Srivastava

Overview

I've spent 16 years on ML infrastructure - first at Zoho, now at Redfern Financial. Grew the ML platform team from 5 to 40 engineers. Before that: HCLTech and Amazon. Most at home with Bazel and Kubeflow. I play football every Sunday.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2024 - Present
   Redfern Financial · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led or co-led 25 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. ML Engineer

   Nov 2022 - Jan 2024
   HCLTech · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Ran 261 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
3. ML Engineer

   Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
   Amazon · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Ran 223 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
   • Taught SQL to 87 non-analysts.
4. ML Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
   Qualcomm · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 4 weeks to 3 days.
   • Taught SQL to 36 non-analysts.
5. Senior ML Engineer

   Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
   Zoho · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Built the experimentation models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.

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Education

1. IIT Hyderabad

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   2005 - 2009