For today's employee spotlight, we interviewed Ramith Padaki, a former Balbix intern and now a full-time Machine Learning Engineer with Balbix. Typically, we'd do this sort of interview in the office, or perhaps during a coffee walk-and-talk, but since we're all still sheltering in place, we decided to do this interview where it's safe…in outer space! Enjoy getting to know Ramith. "I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at Balbix, and I've been here for about eight months or so, but an interesting fact is that I was an intern here last summer. I loved my internship and liked the company and people I got to work with, so I chose to work here full-time. As a machine learning engineer, I improve our machine learning models, specifically, likelihood and threat models, to help them scale to our customers' real-time needs. "I didn't always want to be in the field of machine learning or computer science, or even cybersecurity.

At Landing AI, we are building next generation AI products and solutions to help transform traditional industries like manufacturing and agriculture. This is an ambitious goal that requires close collaboration between people from different disciplines, including product, machine learning engineers and software engineers. In this blog post, we talk with some of our software engineers, who play an important role in building and executing AI solutions, to get their perspectives on what a software engineer's work life is like at Landing AI. What is it like working as a SDE at Landing AI? What's your typical day look like? Pingyang: Besides designing and building various kinds of innovative systems and solutions, I have also been spending a lot of my time learning new things that I was not able to learn elsewhere. I got more opportunities to build tools and frameworks that I'm not allowed to touch or modify in big companies.