Vrinda Bhatia is a seasoned software engineer and AI builder with over a decade of experience in companies like AWS and Block. Most recently, she is working as an ML Engineer at Block, where her work helped prevent over $220M in fraud losses in 2024. Before that she was in AWS AppStream - a secure application streaming service. Her work was critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, empowering organizations like Washington State Pandemic Center, and Los Angeles County to transition thousands of students and employees to secure, remote environments.
She is also a key contributor in an open source library for model distillation (https://github.com/horus-ai-labs/DistillFlow/) which has gotten over 150 stars on Github.