Overview
- Gandhi started as a machine-learning engineer at Apple in January 2025 and is based in Austin, Texas.
- After earning a dentistry degree in India in 2013, he retrained in programming, moved to the U.S. in 2016 for an MS in biomedical informatics at UTHealth Houston, and held data science roles including at Dell and briefly at UnitedHealth Group.
- He reports the Apple job came through a cold application, while referrals helped secure interviews at Microsoft and Walmart, and he also interviewed at PayPal without a referral.
- To stand out in a tougher AI hiring market, he expanded his LinkedIn presence to 500+ connections and over 3,000 followers, posted regularly, and applied selectively to roles that fit.
- He recommends LeetCode practice, mock interviews, and system-design drills, urges learning agent-based AI, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt tuning and inference engines, is described as an H‑1B visa-holder in coverage, and is pursuing a one-year program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.