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title: "Kinshuk Dua - Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kinshuk Dua, ML + Product @ Soroco | 20+ hackathon winner | Worked @ Flipkart, Optum, Samsung, AB Inbev, Indian Navy, Zoho, A*STAR | Google Hashcode 2020 World Finalist | ICLR (Tiny paper track) published | LLMs | GenAI | CV based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex...."
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# Kinshuk Dua on Tal

## Headline

ML \+ Product @ Soroco \| 20\+ hackathon winner \| Worked @ Flipkart, Optum, Samsung, AB Inbev, Indian Navy, Zoho, A\*STAR \| Google Hashcode 2020 World Finalist \| ICLR \(Tiny paper track\) published \| LLMs \| GenAI \| CV

## About

I'm building the world's first foundational AI model for digital interaction\. As a Machine Learning Engineer with a strong product mindset, I bring hands\-on experience in building and scaling ML systems across domains, from computer vision and LLMs/GenAI to distributed ML\. I work on the entire stack of ML development: data, model training, deployment, evaluation, optimization, pipelining, and large\-scale deployment and monitoring\. I thrive at the intersection of research and engineering, solving ambiguous problems, optimizing for real\-world impact, and collaborating across teams to turn ideas into production\-ready systems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

ChatGPT

PydanticAI

## Work experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mo, Bengaluru

Machine Learning Engineer \- Product at Soroco, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Building the world's first foundational AI model for digital interaction\. \- Owned the full ML lifecycle from defining model architecture and data requirements to deployment on ultra low\-spec edge devices\. \- Improved model accuracy from 60% to 85% while reducing model size by 13x, enabling real\-time inference with major gains in latency, memory, and scalability, driving wide customer impact\.

Machine Learning/Security Engineer \(Infosec Team\) at Flipkart, Sep 2022 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at Optum, Jun 2022 \- Sep 2022 · 4 mos

Machine Learning Researcher at A\*STAR \- Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Jan 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 7 mos, Singapore

Research Intern at Samsung R&D Institute India, Nov 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 8 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, VIT Chennai

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/kinshukdua
- linkedin\.com: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/dua

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