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Hrishikesh Kamath

Hrishikesh Kamath

Software engineer and founder focused on AI, privacy-preserving machine learning, and finance

kamathhrishi
San Francisco, California
Bangalore, India
Joined February 2025

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Summary

Hrishikesh is an accomplished software engineer and founder with a strong focus on artificial intelligence, particularly in privacy-preserving machine learning and large language models. He has contributed significantly to OpenMined's PySyft and SyMPC, developing tools for secure multi-party computation and privacy-preserving data science. His work includes research into LLM code generation and hardware security at the University of Delaware. github+4
He possesses a keen interest in the intersection of finance and AI, demonstrated by his work as a Research Engineer at mbd.xyz, where he deployed LLMs and developed recommendation system algorithms for capital markets. Furthermore, he is the founder of themarketcast.ai, an AI-powered podcast service that summarizes S&P 500 earnings calls, and is actively building an AI-powered equity research platform as a side project. github+2
Hrishikesh has a solid foundation in software engineering, having spent 2.5 years at Ederlabs working on backend systems and CI/CD pipelines. His personal website features a blog where he shares his insights on various machine learning topics, including differential privacy, meta-learning, and data-centric approaches to LLM fine-tuning. github+2

Work

Education

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Writing

Approaching Data Centric LLM Finetuning

June 1, 2023

Discusses methods for curating fine-tuning datasets for Large Language Models, focusing on a data-centric approach.

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Model centric vs Data centric ML

June 1, 2021

Explores the differences and implications of model-centric versus data-centric approaches in machine learning.

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Analyze Private datasets using Pandas

February 1, 2021

A guide on how to analyze private datasets effectively using the Pandas library.

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Introduction to Weakly Supervised Learning

February 1, 2021

An introductory overview of weakly supervised learning techniques.

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Meta Learning with MAML

February 1, 2021

Discusses Meta-Learning using the Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) algorithm.

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Machine Learning-Learning to predict classes not seen during training

November 1, 2020

Covers machine learning approaches for predicting classes that were not encountered during the training phase.

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Deep Learning in Practice-Be The algorithm

June 1, 2020

Insights into practical applications of deep learning and understanding the algorithmic perspective.

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Differential Privacy Part-II: DP Mechanisms

May 1, 2019

The second part of a series on differential privacy, focusing on various mechanisms for achieving privacy.

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Differential Privacy Part-I: Introduction

May 1, 2019

The first part of a series introducing the concept of differential privacy.

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Hobbies

Deeply curious about capital markets and business strategy, with over five years of active investing experience in Indian markets using fundamental analysis. github

Enjoys building tools that help analysts uncover deeper, actionable insights beyond surface-level summaries. github