I have directly supervised Gautham’s work at Sirius from a technical perspective for nearly a year. In my experience working with him, I’ve always found Gautham to be highly perceptive, innovative, passionate, possessing a consummate work ethic, and a strong sense of using machine learning to make the world better. Gautham was one of several engineers on a team working to create a contextual assistant that could augment the help desk and IT teams’ capabilities at a large retail company. Gautham was responsible for ensuring the robustness, performance and accuracy of the NLP pipeline, in addition to model deployment. His contributions to the technical community at Sirius have resulted in the successful delivery of projects, and innovative implementation of original ideas. I fully believe Gautham will continue to contribute solutions to advance his field of interest.