Experience

From spacecraft to billion-user systems.

Work

Meta Inc.

CURRENT

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Present

Menlo Park, CA

  • ·Leading 3 active projects and 4 engineers across ads ML, retrieval, and fairness
  • ·Fine-tuned Llama models on curated behavioral datasets — 25% accuracy gain on complex pattern detection
  • ·Built high-performance ads-retrieval system in C++/Hack, optimized for billion-user scale
  • ·Architected the Variance Reduction System in collaboration with the DOJ for equitable ad distribution
  • ·Conceived and led HEF A+A product for regulated verticals — exceeded adoption targets at GA launch
  • ·Reduced advertiser-induced bias in targeted ads through 6+ online experiments across multiple strategies
  • ·Implemented C++/PyTorch dynamic reweighting algorithm to eliminate gender discrimination in ads

Apple Inc.

INTERN

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021

Cupertino, CA

  • ·Optimized Spark batch jobs to cut resource usage in large production ML clusters
  • ·Diagnosed and resolved recurring ML job failures on Hadoop File System

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

ISRO

Machine Learning Engineer

Jul 2018 – Sep 2020

Bangalore, India

  • ·Designed an automated telemetry diagnostic suite using ML to detect non-linear spacecraft health anomalies across millions of sensor data points
  • ·Built real-time time-series modules for flagging system contingencies in collaboration with cross-functional hardware-software teams

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

ISRO

Scientist / Engineer

Sep 2015 – Jun 2018

Bangalore, India

  • ·Contributed to launch operations for Chandrayaan-2, Astrosat, and 3 Low-Earth Orbit satellites, coordinating with JPL and international space agencies
  • ·Authored optimized C++ modules for computing geometric constraints for the Astrosat spacecraft — enabling 10× more orbit simulations per day
  • ·Built a Python automation layer for daily satellite operations, reducing manual overhead by 20%

Education

University of California, San Diego

Master of Science, Computer Science

Sep 2020 – Mar 2022

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)

Bachelor of Technology, Avionics — Computer Science, Electronics & Space Science

Aug 2011 – May 2015

Technical Skills

ML / AI
PythonPyTorchC++Sparkscikit-learn
General
Hack (PHP)SQLHTMLCSSJavaMATLAB