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Arjun Hirano

Arjun Hirano

Applied ML Engineer at Vercel
Applied ML Engineer at VercelToronto, CA · America/Toronto2 yrs · IC3
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AI match score
67/ 100
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Last touched1mo ago
OwnerTomás Herrera
Comp expectation$201,047–$276,088
Flight riskmedium

Current role

Applied ML Engineer · Apr 2025—Present (1 yr)

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Vercel
Developer Tools · growth · Team of 5

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Selected accomplishments

  • Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +76% task-completion rate in the user cohort

    Designed a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval path with re-ranking; reduced hallucinations on long-tail queries.

  • Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    69+ teams onboarded in 6 months

    Built rubric-based offline evals that gated deploys; reduced regression incidents materially.

  • Migrated serving from a legacy stack to a unified gateway
    −54% p95 latency

    Rewrote the streaming path in Go, introduced batched prefill, and cut GPU cost-per-token by 28%.

Work history

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