BoonSoftware Engineer
2024 — Present
Leads the engineering team and AI/ML strategy, balancing hands-on machine learning, software infrastructure and customer-facing product work. Boon described the team as ten people in its March 2025 interview.
Mona Chitnis leads engineering at Boon, combining hands-on AI and machine-learning work with infrastructure, product delivery and the growth of a 10-person team. Previously, she led private federated learning work at Apple and co-authored the pfl-research simulation framework, following software engineering work at Yahoo.
Mona Chitnis leads engineering at Boon, combining hands-on AI and machine-learning work with infrastructure, product delivery and the growth of a 10-person team. Previously, she led private federated learning work at Apple and co-authored the pfl-research simulation framework, following software engineering work at Yahoo.
Career
AppleEngineering Manager
2021 — 2024
Led private federated learning work. Co-authored pfl-research, a Python framework for private federated learning simulation, and co-presented the framework at Apple's 2024 privacy-preserving machine learning workshop.
YahooMobile Application Developer (Android)
2014 — 2016
Worked on Android applications after earlier systems software and Hadoop engineering work at Yahoo.