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Vipul Gagrani

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Director of Engineering - AI & ML at Altana Technologies
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Vipul Gagrani is the Director of Engineering for AI & ML at Altana Technologies, focused on advancing the supply-chain industry. A graduate of the University of Southern California, his expertise lies in semantic search, generative AI, and scaling machine learning systems, skills he honed while managing teams at Course Hero.

He is an active contributor to the AI community, co-authoring research papers and speaking at industry events like the Pinecone AI Transformation Summit. His work often focuses on building reliable and practical AI systems.

He is a co-inventor on a patent for a large language model-based question answering system.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering - AI & ML
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Generative AI
He co-authored a NeurIPS workshop paper on building reliable question-answering systems with GPTs and has spoken on leveraging generative AI in education.
Semantic Search
As a former engineering manager for search at Course Hero, he has presented on using semantic search to create personalized learning experiences for students.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Director of Engineering - AI & ML
Altana Technologies
8-2021 - 3-2024
Senior Engineering Manager
Course Hero
8-2019 - 8-2021
Staff Software Engineer
Course Hero
7-2017 - 8-2019
Senior Software Engineer
Course Hero
11-2015 - 7-2017
Senior Software Engineer
Theranos
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Education
2010 - 2012
Master's degree
University of Southern California
2010 - 2012
Masters
University of Southern California
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