# Samraj M.

> Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samraj

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Agent Evaluation

### Machine Learning Engineering Intern @ AppLovin
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### CDL: Research Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Urbana-Champaign Area

### Computed Advertising Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Urbana-Champaign Area

### Applied Machine Learning Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Urbana-Champaign Area

### C3SR: Undergraduate Student Researcher @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Urbana, Illinois, United States
Working on facilitating faster sparse matrix operations with GPUs. Integrating our CUDA kernel in PyTorch and implementing cuSPARSE and cuBLAS baselines. 

Pruned large language models like NVIDIA’s Megatron-LM BERT with various structured/unstructured pruning techniques and retrained with weight rewinding.

### Computational Advertising Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Urbana, Illinois, United States

### Algorithms and Models of Computation Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Hold regular office hours to assist students and answer questions during labs. Assist in grading weekly homeworks.

### Software Design Studio Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Moderated weekly code reviews to revise student's code and give feedback based on industry-standard coding practices. Emphasized unit testing, specification design, and more.

Collaborated with a small team of staff members to develop new course material and release it to students via PrarieLearn and Docker.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Worked with the AI Commerce Multimodal team to improve the cross-lingual abilities of multilingual multimodal categorization models (specifically, MMFT with an XLM-R backbone).

Explored approaches such as translate inference and translate train, improving the accuracy of low-performance languages by 13% on average.

Researched and implemented other strategies such as iterative weak label self-learning, confidence thresholding, tuning modality dropout, and text augmentation methods including instance crossover and back translation. A combined approach led to improved overall model performance by 3.6%

### Web Developer @ Reflections | Projections
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Helped update the organization website for the 2020 event using React. Developed and released registration functionality with Bootstrap, Axios, MongoDB, and AWS hosting.

### Tech Incubator Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign Area
Worked with NLP Services to develop a distributable named entity recognition processor based on
the BERT architecture. Further improved processor through stackable BiLSTM and CRF layers. Greatly outperformed production grade NER tools like spaCy and Flair.Introduced compatibility with other common NLP architectures such as XLNet, GPT, and variations of BERT. Horizontally scaled processor through providing parallel computing with Dask.

### Intern @ New Resources Consulting
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area
Developed and maintained both the back end and front end functionality of the various company websites utilizing WordPress, HTML, and PHP.

Assisted in transitioning the companies infrastructure from a Microsoft Sharepoint-based file structure to one based on OneDrive.

### Machine Learning Intern @ First Eigen
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
Developed a kNN-based anomaly detection software utilizing python 3.7 and TensorFlow.

Cleansed and prepared data for machine learning algorithm. Analyzed data to increase efficiency of algorithms through various methods such as principal component analysis and data segregation.

### Database Development Intern @ Brodway & West
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
Designed and developed a property management system using MS Access and Visual Basic to replace a MS Excel based system.

Included a graphical user interface which was developed with Visual Basic scripts, macros, and SQL which allowed users to input data and create reports. Secured the back end with login forms, password encryption, and a database split.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Enloe High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samrajmoorjani
- Website: https://smoorjani.github.io/
- GitHub: https://github.com/smoorjani

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Last updated: 2026-03-22