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Shikhar Rastogi

Critic · DISC type C
Machine Learning Engineer at Gensyn
📍 New York, New York, United States

Shikhar is a Machine Learning Engineer at Gensyn, specializing in Data Science and Natural Language Processing. With a Masters from NYU, his career includes roles at Apple, where he deployed hate speech detection models, and IBM, where he helped build M&A strategy using NLP.

Guided by a "People first" principle, he thrives in leadership and team environments. Shikhar is dedicated to mentoring and is highly conscious of how his work impacts his teammates, mentees, and the end-users of his applications.

Unique fact: While at Health at Scale, he implemented optimization techniques that increased GPU efficiency by an incredible 75 times.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Location
New York, New York, United States
Personality Overview

How Shikhar shows up

Critic
Objective Thinker
Information Seeker

They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms. They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often.

Priorities

Topics Shikhar cares about

Decentralized AI
His current role at Gensyn focuses on decentralized and distributed post-training for Large Language Models.
Efficient Model Training
At a previous role, he trained transformers in low GPU resource settings and dramatically increased GPU efficiency through optimization techniques.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Gensyn
4-2025 - 7-2025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Health at Scale
7-2024 - 4-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Health at Scale
5-2023 - 8-2023
Senior Data Scientist Intern
IBM
7-2020 - 7-2022
Software Developer
Apple
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Media appearances

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Education
9-2022 - 2024
Master's degree
New York University
2015 - 2020
Bachelor's degree
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

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