About

I'm Sankalp Gilda, a staff machine learning engineer and ML tech lead based in St. Petersburg, Florida. I hold a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Florida, and before that studied physics and electrical engineering at BITS Pilani. My work spans LLM agents, agentic security, ML evaluations, knowledge graphs, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and market risk — and my earlier research covered stellar-spectra parametrization, galaxy properties, and weather calibration under distributional shift.

thepragmaticquant is where I build tools and write about them honestly: not the polished version, but how the thing actually works and where it breaks. Two projects run here now. waitbus is a workstation-local event bus that lets AI coding agents wait on events instead of polling, and hear each other finish or fail. driftbound is a forward-error analysis of the streaming sliding-window inner product deployed as the matrix profile, with a bound machine-checked in Lean and Coq.

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