Darpan Jain

• First ML engineer; leading content discovery & personalization for 21M+ anime fans.
• Architected a centralized AI platform for multilingual synopsis generation, translation & agentic RAG; LLM fine-tuning, hosting, vector stores & human feedback.

• Launched RAG-based conversational search within 5 months, serving 72K+ monthly users; mitigated hallucination & misinformation through evaluation and re-ranking trusted sources.

• Led conflict-resolution dialogue agents for DARPA; moderated 15K+ multilingual Reddit posts with an 85% true positive rate in French & German; published at NAACL 2024.

• Built distributed Spark & Airflow pipelines and ran A/B tests for Discovery+ recommendations.
• Led Android & Web server-side ad-insertion SDK development, increasing ad revenue for Discovery+ sports content in Europe.

• Led MiDAS development for personalized OTT ads; deployed TensorFlow vision models on Kubernetes for dynamic ad insertion across 40+ channels.
• Built ad-break forecasting with recurrent networks, reducing resource consumption & backend network calls by 30%.

• Led & mentored a team of 30 building edge ML applications on embedded Linux, including face & voice recognition and pose tracking.

Built a self-hosted transcription & LLM evaluation pipeline for Pathways-to-Success; evaluated 100+ hours of teacher sessions, with results within 5% of human evaluations.

Co-founded a nonprofit COVID-19 risk-assessment platform with a BERT-based chatbot grounded in government-verified information, a live dashboard & heatmaps.