Aspiring AI/ML Engineer · M.Tech Artificial Intelligence @ IIT Jodhpur · 14+ years in product & project delivery
I spent 14 years shipping products — running delivery, managing stakeholders, and deciding what was actually worth building. I'm now doing the formal work to build the systems themselves, through an M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Jodhpur.
This profile is where that transition happens in public. Expect implementations from first principles, notes on things I'm still figuring out, and steady progress rather than a finished portfolio.
A career as an applied ML engineer — someone who can take a problem from a vague business need to a model that runs in production, and explain the tradeoffs at every step to people who don't read papers.
Current areas of study:
- Machine learning foundations — implementing core algorithms from scratch before reaching for libraries
- Deep learning & neural networks — architectures, training dynamics, optimization
- Natural language processing — transformers, transfer learning, evaluation methodology
- GPU computing — CUDA, parallel programming, and where the performance actually comes from
- Applied ML — the gap between a notebook that works and a system that holds up
The technical skills here are new. These aren't:
- Choosing the right problem. Most projects fail before a line of code is written. Scoping is a skill.
- Shipping under constraints. Deadlines, incomplete requirements, and shifting priorities are the normal condition, not the exception.
- Translating across audiences. Explaining a technical tradeoff to someone who owns the budget but not the codebase.
- Owning outcomes. Fourteen years of being accountable for whether something actually landed.
I think these compound with ML skills rather than sitting beside them. A lot of models never make it out of a notebook for reasons that have nothing to do with the math.
Languages: Python ML/Data: NumPy · pandas · scikit-learn · Matplotlib Deep Learning: PyTorch · Hugging Face Transformers GPU: CUDA · Numba Tools: Git · Jupyter · Google Colab
Completing my M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Jodhpur, building out this profile as I go, and open to conversations about applied ML roles where a delivery background is an asset rather than a detour.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-mathur-project-manager/ Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/mohit-mathur-project-manager/ Google: https://me.developers.google.com/u/mohit-mathur