Nov 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Fennel, we built the data infrastructure for ML teams. Fennel was acquired by Databricks.

Apr 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• 2021: supported PyTorch ecosystem foundation, consisting of ~60 elite engineers/managers building PyTorch distributed, trainer, and all of PyTorch's domain libraries like torchrec, torchaudio, torch-rl etc)
• 2018-2021: supported applied ML teams (of 100+ML engineers) working on search ranking & feed recommendations for multiple product lines.

Jul 2017 – Apr 2018 · 9 mos · Mountain View, SF Bay Area

• Supported a team of ~40 engineers and managers working on both platform and infrastructure, the two technical engineering organizations at Quora. During this time, I was responsible for all company-wide technical efforts and metrics (e.g. perf, reliability, AWS cost, security, development velocity). I also started and led a group to formulate and implement the company-wide technical strategy.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, SF Bay Area

• Led various engineering teams, projects, and manager groups all the way from product engineering to ML and to infrastructure. Some examples:
• Started use of Machine Learning in the Content Quality team to understand the quality of user-generated content like answers.
• Started ML Platform team to build centralized infrastructure for newsfeed and all other ML applications
• Led Ads team to launch of self-serve advertiser platform and ML-based ad targeting.
• Hired ~25% of all Quora engineering hires between July 2016 and Dec 2017.
• Helped launch eng-wide matrix org structure by defining a horizontal unit called guild.
• Led various high-impact engineering manager groups like recruiting and engineering standards.

Oct 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mountain View, SF Bay Area

• Did a little bit of everything as an early engineer --
• Worked in a 1-member team responsible for end to end performance of Quora.
• Worked on caching layer of our infrastructure and created a new distributed web server architecture called Ultralisk.
• Launched some user-facing features like feed muting controls
• As a founding engineer of the content quality team built several foundational systems to understand, monitor and improve the quality of user-generated content at Quora.
• Did much of the engineering & product work to develop in-house content moderation system
• Built lots of productivity tools for the whole engineering team
• Led a successful initiative to bring step-function improvement to the company-wide code quality (examples of things that came out of this include: development of style guide, setting up code review process, development of a linter, development of better code push systems etc.)

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Coach and problem setter at training and selection camp for Indian team to IOI.

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Benchmarked linear approximations to the RBF kernels for SVMs and multiple-kernel-learning under the guidance of Prof. Manik Verma

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Taught Combinatorics to Delhi region mathematics olympiad candidates, graded their exams and helped select the team.

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As one of the first three developers, I set up Credii's full text search, designed DB schema for the core app and prototyped the frontend in Javascript.