Samyak Jain
Samyak Jain in front of the Golden Gate Bridge

Hi, I'm Samyak 👋🏻

I'm a software engineer building machine learning and applied AI systems. Right now I'm a Senior Software Engineer at PowerSchool , where I design and ship agentic AI products for K-12 education.

Before that, I spent five years at Samsung Research working on ML and computer vision — building real-time deep learning models for video restoration and image processing on flagship Galaxy devices. I hold a Master's in Natural Language Processing from UC Santa Cruz and a Bachelor's in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka .

Thanks for stopping by :)

Work Experience
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  • Jan 2025 - Present
    PowerSchool
    Senior Software Engineer
    • Shipped PowerBuddy for Data Analysis (PBDA), an agentic AI analytics platform that lets non-technical educators extract insights from their data. Designed the agent harness — personas, memory, tool calling, and state management — to scale natively across diverse data domains.
    • Cut inference costs by 80% and latency by 55% through context engineering, streamlined agent communication, and state-aware tool design on a serverless AWS Lambda / DynamoDB stack.
    • Built autonomous AI agents for large-scale data migration, generating complex SQL across ~100 domains in minutes — cutting customer migration costs by over 95% and human validation effort by ~90%.
  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2023
    Samsung Research
    Lead Machine Learning Engineer
    • Developed an on-device multi-frame CNN in TensorFlow for real-time low-light video restoration on the Galaxy S23 — 4x better temporal consistency, 6% higher SSIM, and 200x lower complexity than state-of-the-art baselines.
    • Curated a 50K-video training dataset with real noise and synthetic motion to reduce motion blur and enhance low-light detail.
    • Mentored a team of engineers to a 10% performance boost on the Galaxy S23 FE image-processing pipeline by optimizing CPU core utilization and reducing inter-thread dependencies.
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