TEAM

Meet the BlockDog team!

We are a team of engineers from Apple AI, Microsoft, Salesforce and Nextdoor who've spent years working on scalable recommender engines and shipped deep learning models for FinTech and healthcare products.

JATIN MEHTA

CEO

Hello! I completed my bachelors in Electronics and Communications from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati in 2014 during which I wrote image processing algorithms for automated detection of bone-tissue ruptures in ultrasound images as an intern at Czech Technical University, Prague. I also worked on building machine learning models for super-resolution of images that got published in an IEEE conference for neural networks.

I went on to work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bangalore as a senior R&D engineer in their computer networking department of their cloud (Openstack-Helion). I worked on simulation of a large no. of bare metals for testing an Openstack module which I presented at the Openstack summit’2016 in Austin. I moved to California to pursue my masters degree in Computer Networking at University of California, Irvine during which I interned at a startup DeepRadiology where I built deep neural networks for detection of breast cancer in mammograms. Later, I moved to the silicon valley to work for SAP where I worked on Query processing optimization in their database engine SAP Hana, followed by which I joined Salesforce-San Francisco where I designed and developed features for scaling the Salesforce application including connection pooling, redirecting traffic to read-only databases, and more.

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Calendly: https://calendly.com/blockdog

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jatinmehta1/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/j1mehta

RANTI DEV SHARMA

Co-Founder

Hi! I completed my Bachelors in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. After that I worked at Microsoft as a software engineer. To pursue my career in Artificial Intelligence I did my Masters in CS with Artificial Intelligence from University of California San Diego. There I interned at a startup Crowdai.com where I worked with founders in their garage. I learnt a lot about running startups from them. After that I joined Orbital Insight as a Machine Learning Engineer. There I found the perfect startup environment and shipped products which are currently working in Airbus earth monitor to Bloomberg terminal world oil index. After working at Orbital Insight I went to Apple as Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Special projects group. We worked on projects which are going to change the way we interact with devices. I have co-founded a SME payroll company VetanPay.com. We achieved 25K+ downloads in 3 months. ✉️ [e-mail]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rantidevsharma/