Piyush Bansal

Director of Engineering

Menlo Park, California, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in large-scale ads recommendation systems.
Strong background in machine learning and data mining.
Experience in enhancing user experience for advertising platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Software Engineer specializing in Ad Tech and Data Science.

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Skills

Other Skills

PythonAlgorithmsMachine LearningCC++ProgrammingTestingLinuxComputer ScienceData ScienceData MiningArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingBashInformation Extraction

About

I am a Software engineer at Facebook, working on core ads ranking systems. I work on large-scale ads recommendation system that shows personalized ads to Facebook users while maximizing for advertiser value and advertiser experience. I work on mining information from massive datasets at Facebook scale, modeling complex user behavior and learning ads representations to rank the best ads for Facebook user. Prior to joining Facebook, I worked on Information retrieval and crowdsourcing while obtaining my Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Eth zurich

Visiting Researcher

Feb 2016 – May 2016 · 3 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Working in the Data Analytics lab, under Prof. Thomas Hofmann on Active learning and it's applications in budget constrained crowdsourcing. The project was supervised by Dr. Carsten Eickhoff.

Data Scientist

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Worked with the Fraud, Abuse and Risk (Security Data Science) team on member reputation systems.

Facebook

Software Engineer

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Menlo Park, California

Worked on the news feed ranking team, responsible for major improvements in public content recommendation.

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval and Extraction

Jan 2015 – Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Delivering tutorials, and mentoring students for various IRE projects.

Data Scientist

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

Using data driven models to detect suspicious behavior on LinkedIn. Suspicious activities on which I focussed were - Automation, and Scraping by browser plugins, or custom bots.

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assistant for Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos

Teaching Assistant for Artifical Intelligence Course under Prof. C.V Jawahar. Gave basic introductions/tutorials about Information Retrieval, propositional logic etc.

Google open source programs office

2 roles

Open Source Software Developer

Jul 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Have been working with Google Open Source Programs team - Melange, which is responsible for conducting Google Summer of Code, and Google Code In, every year since past 10 years. My responsibilities include mostly on the Quality Assurance side - developing acceptance testing framework for Melange, building a Continuous Integration system to smoothen developer workflow, as well as reducing chances of pushing an unhealthy version to deployment.

Software Developer (as a part of Google Summer of Code '13)

Jun 2013 – Oct 2013 · 4 mos

Built an automated acceptance testing framework for functional testing of the `Google Summer of Code` and `Google Code In` Application. Worked from ground up, seeding data via App engine's Remote API and testing via selenium based pyccuracy.