# Sai Subhash Kotaru

> NYU MSCS’26 | IIT KGP 2023 | MTS at ZL TECH

Profile: https://flows.cv/saisubhashkotaru

## Work Experience
### MLE intern @ AllyIn.ai
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### Member of Technical Staff @ ZL Tech
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Hyderabad
• Developed ’Escalation’ feature that improved Compliance module, reducing review cycle time by 35% via automated escalation
• Worked on time-based partitioning and indexing of NoSQL database, which improved retrieval efficiency by 4% at petabyte scale
• Reduced misflagging rate by 18% using finetuned BERT with class weighted loss and hard negative mining on near boundary samples

### SWE Intern @ Samsung R&D Institute India
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Noida
• Worken on post-ranking optimization for IoT recommendations using Upper Confidence Bound to balance exploration and exploitation
• Evaluated ranking quality using relevance and diversity, improved long-tail item exposure by 11%, keeping NDCG@50 within 5% of baseline


## Education
### Master of Science - MS
New York University

### Dual degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

### Intermediate Education
Sri Chaitanya Narayana Junior Kalasala

### High School Diploma
Narayana High School, Secundrabad, Hyderabad


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/subhash-kotaru
- Email: mailto:sk12154@nyu.edu

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Last updated: 2026-04-19