Abhay Prakash

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States10 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in Machine Learning and Personalization.
Award-winning AI innovator at Microsoft.
Proven track record in enhancing user experiences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning expert with a focus on AI-driven personalization in the tech industry.

Contact

abhay.prakash1@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningPersonalizationUser RetentionAiInnovationConversational AiDeep Learning

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC#C++Computer ScienceData MiningData PipelinesData StructuresEnd-to-End Pipeline DevelopmentFraud PreventionJavaLaTeXLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxMatlab

About

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Experience

Google

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer (Machine Learning)

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Working for [Gemini in Chrome](https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/).
Response quality improvements
Chrome Context
Until May 2025, worked on Personalization in Google Discover (creator based, interest based).

Machine LearningDeep LearningPersonalizationLarge Language Models (LLM)

Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning)

Promoted

Nov 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Worked on Personalized Query Recommendations in Google Discover (Search App Feed). Built Deep Models for User-Query affinity for candidates retrieval, and ranking signal.
Spearheaded use of LLMs for Query Recommendations. Used LLMs for guided label generation for given user history, as well as for query corpus.
Retrieval model for shopping personalisation (personalised retrieval) in Google Discover.

Machine LearningDeep LearningLarge Language Models (LLM)Personalization

Software Engineer III (Machine Learning)

Jun 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

User Retention, Optimized Reward Targeting and Smart User Experiences in GPay.
Earlier worked on curbing reward abuse in GPay.

Machine LearningUser RetentionOptimized Reward Targeting

Microsoft (office)

4 roles

Applied Scientist II

Promoted

Jun 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

Awarded "Bing Excellence Award for Innovation" for creating a solution (using AI) to generate new weave-able motifs for handloom small businesses. The work also got mentioned in Satya Nadella's blog on projects that inspired him in 2017.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-projects-inspired-me-2017-satya-nadella/

AIInnovation

Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on open-ended conversational bot for chit-chat purpose, primarily contributing in:
Ranking of responses for relevance, in context of on-going conversation, using deep learning. Also published a paper at SIGIR 2016, based on this work (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07056.pdf).
Creating index of responses that reflects an Indian personality by using techniques like language modelling.

Deep LearningConversational AI

SDE Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Developed an end-to-end pipeline to improve Cortana recall over chit-chat queries (non-web queries) e.g. 'Tell me a joke', 'Where do you live' etc. for which Cortana responds with some witty responses.

End-to-End Pipeline Development