AI Engineering Q&A with Shivani Rao (AI /ML Engineering Manager @ Pinterest) - Leopard.FYI
Join us for an AI Engineering Q&A with Shivani Rao, an accomplished AI/ML engineering leader and interview coach with over 20 years of academic and industry experience in building scalable, reliable AI/ML models.
Shivani currently manages AI/ML engineering teams at Pinterest, leading efforts on personalized notifications, delivery optimization, and transformer-based ranking models that drive user engagement at scale.
Before Pinterest, she spent nearly a decade at LinkedIn, where she managed multiple AI/ML teams across Knowledge Graph, Trust & Safety, and Ads, working on projects like entity resolution, relationship extraction, GNN + LLM approaches for edge linking, and fraud prevention.
In addition to her leadership roles, Shivani is an AI/ML interview coach with Hello Interview, helping candidates strengthen their technical storytelling, sharpen system design approaches, and gain confidence for high-stakes interviews.
Come ask Shivani anything about interview prep, career growth in AI/ML, or how to frame your expertise for top-tier roles.