Mihir Kulkarni is a Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and data technologies, currently working at Amazon on projects related to Nova LLMs. Previously, they have held positions at Waymo as a Technical Lead focusing on ML infrastructure, and at Google as a Senior Software Engineer, contributing to the YouTube Payments Platform team. Mihir also gained experience at Informatica as a Software Engineer, where they worked with Hadoop and query optimizations, and interned at Microsoft in software development. They hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the College of Engineering, Pune.