Parag Deshpande

Location

San Jose, CA
Education
    San Jose State University
    January 2023 - January 2025
    degree
    Master's
    major
    Data Analytics
    BMS Institute of Technology AND Management
Work Experience
    Flare AI
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Austin, TX, US
    November 2021 - November 2023
    company
    Flare AI
    title
    Machine Learning Engineer
    overview
    - Optimized a generative algorithm to craft blog content for Shopify stores, enhancing Google indexability by 70% and achieving a 40% average CTR, thereby boosting sales significantly - Researched on paraphrasing models using the Hugging Face library to improve the Found on Google (FOG) score for blogs - Conducted A/B testing on LLMs to assess performance disparities, and refine models iteratively, leading to a 1.6% increase in algorithmic precision
    Entrepreneurship and Development Club
    Data Science Intern
    Bangalore, IN-KA, IN
    June 2021 - November 2021
Skills
A/B TestingAirflowAlgorithmsAmazon Relational Database ServiceAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)Artificial IntelligenceAutomationAWS GlueBlogging SkillsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud ComputingCompetition AnalysisC++ (Programming Language)Customer RetentionData AnalysisDatabasesData NormalizationData RetrievalData ScienceData StreamingEntrepreneurshipExtract Transform Load (ETL)FastapiFlask (Web Framework)Google BigqueryGoogle CloudHTMLJava (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)JSONKerasLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningMATLABMatplotlibMicrosoft AccessMongoDBMySQLNeo4jParaphrasingPostgreSQLPower BIProduct PositioningProgramming LanguagesPysparkPython (Programming Language)PytorchQuery OptimizationRaw DataRecommender SystemsS3 BucketSalesScikit LearnSearch Engine OptimizationShopifySnowflakeStar SchemaTableau (Software)Target Market SelectionTensorflowTrend Analysis