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Tushar Gowda

AI Researcher

Seattle, Washington, United States7 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Reduced RLHF training time by 80% at Meta.
  • Launched Meta's subscription platform with 4M+ active users.
  • Built a service handling 4B edges a day at Meta.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AI and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningKubernetesDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentMonetizationDatabase Management

Other Skills

ASP.NETAWSApache ThriftC (Programming Language)C#C++CassandraData StructuresGraph DatabasesGraphQLHTMLHadoopHiveJavaJenkins

Experience

Amazon

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Gen AI | Search Relevance | Amazon Ads
  • Building LLM batch inference infrastructure.
Reinforcement Learningtorch distributedKubernetesPyTorchMachine Learning

Meta

2 roles

Software Engineer - ML Systems, GenAI

Aug 2024May 2025 · 9 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • Llama Research Platform | AI foundations
  • Building Meta’s RLHF platform
  • Built a distributed training framework using torch distributed, reducing RLHF training time by 80%,
  • significantly lowering GPU costs and enabling faster iterations.
  • Enhanced the reliability of the offline inference package by integrating tests into the build pipeline, ensuring stable
  • releases and reducing customer inquiries by 65%
torch distributedReinforcement LearningPythonMachine LearningDistributed Systems

Software Engineer, Monetization

Jan 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • Digital Commerce | Meta Fintech
  • Building Meta’s Subscriptions platform
  • Notable products launched
  • Meta Verified, Ads free, Creator Subscriptions on IG and FB
  • Founding engineer of Meta’s subscription platform; launched Meta Verified, Ads-Free Subs and Instagram Creator
  • Subs, scaling to 4M+ active subscriptions and $750M+ in ARR.
  • Migrated sync notifications to pub/sub architecture to improve reliability from 90.5% to 99.9%.
  • Led response and resolution for 25+ service outages, driving swift recovery and long-term reliability
  • improvements
  • Led migration of data storage for subscription tables, improving read latency by 3x and write latency by 2x and
  • enabling easier data model evolution.
  • Optimized the post-purchase fulfillment endpoint by profiling performance, identifying bottlenecks, and
  • implementing targeted fixes, achieving a 60% reduction in latency.
  • Recognized with the ’Fixer’ award by the org leader for resolving longstanding platform issues and leading
  • multiple service outages to uphold reliability standards.
SQLJavaAWSSoftware DevelopmentMonetization

University of minnesota nutrition coordinating center

Graduate Student Software Developer

Sep 2022Dec 2022 · 3 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Meta

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Data Lineage Infra | Data Infra
  • Built a service to validate and stream lineage events from a queueing system to a thrift service. Currently handling 4B edges a day.
  • Productionized the service by adding monitoring capabilities, enabling CI CD and fine tuning using CPU and memory profilers.
  • When compared to the previous solution the new service was 15x faster and had 3x less memory footprint.
  • Fun experience learning production C++, working on distributed systems at Meta’s scale and collaborating with cross functional partners.

University of minnesota

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mar 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

  • CSCI 3081W - Program Design and Development (Spring 2021, Fall 2021)
  • CSCI 4061 - Operating Systems(Spring 2022)
  • MSBA 6331 - Big Data Analytics (Fall 2022)
  • MABA 6490 - Machine Learning System Design (Fall 2022)
  • Conducted office hours, led lab sessions, designed assignments, and wrote starter code for the course project.

Bidgely

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021Jan 2021 · 0 mo

SQLAWSJavaDatabase ManagementSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Designed and built a complete end-to-end flow of data ingestion modules for a utility containing 2 million users.
  • Re-engineered the email creation framework to make it modular which in turn reduced the time taken to create a new email from ideation to production by 75%.
  • Developed multiple public RESTful APIs using the Spring framework for utilities to use.
  • Led a team of developers and testers responsible for setting up our suite of products with numerous custom features for a new client.
  • Conducted technical talks on our product’s architecture and the working of different modules as part of the onboarding process for more than 30 employees.
  • Developed numerous python scripts to automate tedious manual work for both developers and testers.
AWS

Intern

Jan 2018Apr 2018 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Developed a pipeline monitoring system responsible for extracting time series data from AWS cloudwatch, storing it in InfluxDB, and providing intuitive dashboards
  • Dashboards created with Grafana were more granular with better visualization making them easier to understand

Arm

Summer Intern

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Contributed to the overall quality improvement of the architecture compliance kit
  • Learned about the ARM architecture and the architecture compliance kit, found error-prone test cases, and resolved them. Integrated a tool in the kit to avoid such mistakes in the future

Gnostice information technologies pvt. ltd.

Intern

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Built an XLSX engine in Delphi (Object Pascal) to parse Microsoft Excel Documents. This was a part of the multi-purpose reader developed by Gnostice, which was capable of reading multiple file formats like .pdf, .jpeg, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc

Education

University of Minnesota

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2021Dec 2022

RV College Of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Kendriya Vidyalaya

AISSCE — Science

Apr 2012May 2014

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