SHARAD VARSHNEY
LLM Fine tuning Expert | 🇺🇸 US Citizen |📱650-666-7984
CAREER JOURNEY
PROFILE
Research and results-driven, hands-on influential leader with more than 18+ years of experience in GenAI and NLP and large language models. Sharad has unique cross domain experience who drives growth by driving insights that fuel increased profitability and strategic transformations. Skilled at building and leading high-performing technical research teams across international markets, while establishing robust engineering practices and fostering key business partnerships.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Hands on Technical Co-Founder
Worf AI, Santa Clara, CA | Jan. 2024 - Present
- Spearheaded development of revolutionary multi-agent AI architecture, positioning company as an innovator in autonomous cybersecurity
- Designed and developed GenAI and Agentic based cybersecurity autonomous solution.
- Architected scalable platform processing millions of threat vectors daily
CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST | HEAD OF AI/ML | VP
Epsilon (Cosmos.ai) | 2019 - 2023
- Scaled organization from startup to 80+ member global team, driving successful acquisition by Epsilon
- Transformed customer engagement platform through AI innovation, resulting in 40% improvement in campaign performance
- Delivered $100M+ in new revenue through AI-driven product innovations
FOUNDING ML ENGINEER
Peritus.ai | 2017 - 2019
- Led technical vision resulting in successful Seed funding
- Established strategic partnership program with major cloud providers
- Developed autonomous data center management platform, reducing incident resolution time by 60%
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
- Technical Co- Founder | GEENI.ai | 2012 – 2013
- Principal Engineer| GTS, San Francisco | 2009 – 2012
- Sr. Software Engineer | Getty Images, Seattle | 2006 – 2008
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
- Applied Machine Learning, Stanford University
- M.S. in Computer Science, California State University
- B.Tech. in Computer Science, NMU, India