Venkat Ramaraju

software engineer @ tabapay working on all things payments.

i'm interested in distributed systems, cross-lingual llms, and fitness.

experience

bachelors in computer science @ arizona state university aug'18 - dec'21
graduated early with a 4.0 GPA from the honors college

dataquest.ai: an authenticated ai natural language querying tool for documents, datasets, videos, emails, etc.
leverages pinecone, langchain with gpt3.5 turbo, gmail api, youtube transcription api, stripe integrations, rate limiting, etc.
interspersed bilingual decoder (ibd): a code-mixing decoder-only model fine tuned on top of LLama-3.1.
generated hinglish code-mixed datasets using pos tagging with stanza/spacy, performed sft and dpo for alignment. testing out some additional things right now.
agora: stock recommender based on public sentiment
uses VADER sentiment analysis models, daily web scrapers using selenium, yfinance api, xgboost and random forest ensemble models

big shoutout to Dr. Ajay Bansal and his PhD student James Smith for their support in elevating this project.

Make Something Heavy
an essay on the importance of creating substantial work that i found particularly eye-opening
Narendra Modi on Lex Fridman's podcast
his wisdom on focus, meditation, and serving his people is inspiring
Sarah Paine: "The War For India" on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast
i attended this live lecture in san francisco, it was incredibly informative