Umabharathi Govindarajan is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Blue River Technology with over five years of experience working on machine learning systems deployed in real-world environments. Her work covers training, adaptation and iteration of machine learning models across the end-to-end life cycle, including evaluation and post-deployment behavior. Her interests include representation learning, large-scale model training and downstream task adaptation, with an emphasis on data-centric AI methods for improving system reliability over time. Uma also mentors undergraduate students interested in machine learning and applied AI and holds a graduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. In her spare time she enjoys photography, reading, traveling and catching up on the latest developments in technology.