Overall Company information
- Type: Data, AI and ML consulting
- Client(s): Businesses integrating data and AI powered operations or products
- URL: https://endeavorlabs.co/
- Description: I joined Endeavor as a freelancer first for my LLM expertise, which later turned into a full time ML generalist at Staff Data Scientist level
My learnings and contribution
- Working with a team of talented freelancers: In my previous freelancing efforts, I had usually worked as the single data and ML expert. But this is the first time I got to be a part of and experience the team effort of a talented bunch of freelancers
- Product Ownership and Business Development Engagements: I had the opportunity to own the product as the project lead and manage scope, project planning, task resourcing and prospecting Data and ML inclusion pathways for existing and new clients
- LLMs, LLMOps and the lifecycle: I had the opportunity to see through an LLM lifecyle from researching and pick the ideal solution between prompting, fine tuning various architectures, the right data design for the solution and planning for operational and maintenance requirements for the model
Projects
The formal projects I worked on during my time here:
LLM and GenAI based Accounts Payable Automation
Finetuning and instruction tuning of large language models to help with invoice processing
Recommendations
Recommendations from people I worked with here:
Sanjana is an incredibly bright and versatile data scientist, who brings a powerful combination of machine learning knowledge, engineering skill, and organizational ability. She played a team lead role on one of our client engagements at Endeavor Labs, and did an impressive job coordinating the efforts of a 4-person project team, while also playing the role of senior technical contributor. Any data science or ML team will be lucky to have her on board!
I was lucky to work with Sanjana on a complex NLP prediction problem for several weeks. She impressed me with how quickly she was able to understand the complexity of the issue, her readiness to come up with the right questions, her ability to quickly solve complex tasks while always prioritizing the best solution for the customer. She has a vast knowledge of the NLP domain, ranging from standard algorithms to the latest developments in Transformers and LLMs in general. During the lifetime of the project, she went from developing the initial model to supervise and contribute to all other activities, from data sourcing, to transformation, modeling and productization. She showed the ability to follow the entire lifecycle of a data science project, incorporate the customer needs into it and drive its outcomes towards the best solution for the customer. Working with Sanjana was a great professional experience, she is easy to work with, always happy to help and collaborate on complex tasks and very organized. I learnt a lot from her and anybody would be lucky to have her as a colleague.
