MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER

Poorna
Natarajan

New York, NY

Poorna Natarajan

I’m a senior machine learning engineer building search, retrieval, and production AI systems.

Over seven years, I’ve worked across enterprise search, document intelligence, and government applications, taking machine learning systems from prototype to deployment.

Interested in information retrieval, distributed systems, sensing, and intelligent physical systems.

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Education

M.S. Computer Science — Artificial Intelligence
Georgia Tech

B.S. Bioengineering & B.A. Economics
University of Maryland

Focus
Retrieval & ranking · Embeddings & two-tower models · Applied LLMs, RAG & agents · Classification & extraction · Evaluation · Training pipelines & low-latency serving
Tools
Python · PyTorch · Go · C# · TypeScript · Spark · Airflow · Kubernetes/OpenShift · ONNX · pgvector · DSPy/GEPA