When I created this website, I was planning to update it frequently on things I wanted to work on the side. However, I literally made just 1 (one) post in more than 2 years. The reason to break that silence with this post is to just publish an update.
Amazon
Around end of August, I quit my job at Amazon after almost 2.5 years. I was with the same team all along building text-based conversational shopping assistant. I was the sole applied scientist in the team for a long time, so I was pretty much the author of all natural language understanding models when I left.
I now work at Google as part of Cloud AI team.
We are working on a new conversation-based recommendation strategy at Amazon and we are looking for passionate SDEs and scientists who would like to make contributions to products used by millions of people everyday. If you are interested, send me an email through the form on the 
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