Virtual Q&A (ML/AI) with Shivani Rao (Ex AI/ML Engineering Manager @ Pinterest)

​Join us on Monday, Oct 6th for a Low Key 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.

​Come ask Shivani anything ✨ about AI/ML, interview prep, career growth and vetting AI companies 🙏

About Shivani 💜: She most recently ran 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.

​About Leopard.FYI: We connect women and gender-queer engineers to vetted companies with great cultures. Leopard gathers intel on company culture, compensation, gender diversity, interview processes, and more! We also run a free slack community for women/nb engineers to share, connect, backchannel, mentor and prepare for interviews together.

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