{"id":12832,"date":"2025-02-10T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cometml.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12832"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:57:43","slug":"ankit-virmani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/convergence\/ankit-virmani\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankit Virmani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--100);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--160);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--100)\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-16488 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/convergence-hero-background-scaled.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#4a1e26\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a2024186819c231e941dc556eed5a54\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/convergence\/\">\u2190 BACK TO EVENT PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b61b2f12 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:275px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-opik is-style-opik--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ankit-Virmani.jpeg\" alt=\"Ankit Virmani\" class=\"wp-image-9634\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:275px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ankit-Virmani.jpeg 686w, https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ankit-Virmani-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ankit-Virmani-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a0d49d46 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h1 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-display-m-font-size\">Ankit Virmani<\/h1>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-body-l-font-size\" id=\"h-data-science-educator-and-vanishing-gradients-host\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Senior Cloud Data Architect\/Field CTO at Google<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-opik is-style-opik--2\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankit is a seasoned ML leader with Google, helping organizations develop scalable, reliable and performant ML platforms on Google Cloud. 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