Projects at work & positions held :
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Instacart

Machine Learning Engineering Lead

Working as a ML Lead at Instacart. I lead a team of 7 engineers working on Generative AI and Catalog at Instacart. I set the vision for AI generated images and recipes on a company level.

Jan 2023-Present
Seattle, Washington
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Twitter

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Worked as a Senior ML Engineer at Twitter. I worked on end to end ML solutions in ranking and recommendations for the Tweet details page on twitter.com. Once you click on any tweet we rank and recommend the best content for the users to stay engaged in the platform. In particular, I devised a new ranking algorithm for logged out users and was pivotal in migrating data jobs from an internal tool to GCP Dataflow. My time at Twitter was cut short because of the untimely acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.

July 2022-Jan 2023
Seattle, Washington
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Sports AI on Edge,Bing,MSN

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Working on large scale end to end experiences for Bing, Edge, MSN with various content such as Sports, Esports, Finance, Weather, etc.

2022
Redmond, Washington
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Sports AI on Edge,Bing,MSN

Software Engineer II, Microsoft

After a re-org, we created a new Sports AI team. I lead and mentor engineers to create intelligent sports related machine learning experiences on edge, msn, Microsoft feeds, and Bing. This work included relevance, ranking, personalization related projects. I created a domain specific BERT model from scratch, SportsBERT. It is currently hosted on huggingface.co and is open sourced.

2021-July 2022
Bellevue, Washington
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Personalization on Bing.com

Software Engineer II, Microsoft

Our team transitioned into the "Personalization team". We slowly started building experiences where we give recommendations, results, and personalized content based on the user's personal history giving users reasons to sign in to Bing.com apart from rewards. This involved building a GDPR compliant platform, handling personalized data, building individual recommendation models. You can read a sample of my work here where we built a relevant history answer which shows a user relevant web links to the current search which the user has clicked on the past.

2019
Bellevue, Washington
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Mental health on Bing.com

Software Engineer II, Microsoft

For Microsoft's internal Hackathon 2019, we noticed that both Bing and Google was lacking a detailed answer for queries related to mental health conditions/suicide and hence, I spearheaded a team of 5 engineers to design a more compassionate answer for users which included useful resources such as tedX videos, books, and links to find support groups nearby. Our work was well received and is now shipped on both desktop and mobile for the US market.

2019
Bellevue, Washington
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Apps answer on Bing.com

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Popularly touted as the second best search engine, I decided to join Bing after I graduated from CMU. In my first year, all I could see was potential. The potential to grow things, do them uniquely and to not follow the search leader. My first project at Bing was to make apps and software (Windows 10) available to Bing users through a rich answer. (See below for samples)

2018
Bellevue, Washington
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Cortx

Software Engineering Intern, AI & NLP focus

Cortx is a company dedicated to delivering trend-setting products in the Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing space. My work focuses on programming a backend system which supports a Natural Language project based on Deep Learning models and Stanford’s CoreNLP. This was used to build an intelligent spelling and grammar corrector, Perfect Tense. The work made me familiar with programming in Scala and concepts such as Futures, threading, etc. This internship also taught me how to write readable and efficient code which focuses not just on the result but also impact and utility.

Summer 2017
Baltimore, Maryland
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Research Assistant

I worked for 3 months under Dr.Giridhar in the Electrical Engineering department. My responsibilities included programming a basic web interface for researchers to calculate the signal strength of network based on a host of factors. This project introduced me to coding in Python, Golang and basics of HTML. It also taught me how to conduct research whilst working with a focused research group.

Summer 2015
Chennai, India
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Music Club, SSN College of Engineering

President

I have served as the president of the music club at my uder-graduate instiution for 2 years. Over these 2 years, I have organized numerous events which have each garnered over 600 participants in footfall.

2014-2016
Chennai, India
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Tech Club, SSN College of Engineering

Secretary

During my senior year, I served as Secretary of the Tech Club, a club focused on motivating freshmen and sophomores to pursue research and undergo additional technical training required for extra curricular projects. I have personally conducted sessions focused on Machine Learning concepts.

2016-2017
Chennai, India