Faran Ahmad — Software Engineer
I am a Software Engineer with interest and demonstrated experience in building large scale AI/ML and Data Infrastructure / Platforms. I enjoy solving scalability, reliability and efficiency related problems providing critical contributions to the company's top line business metrics. Currently, I work within AI Infra PyTorch org within Meta on Inference Enablement for large scale generative and sparse recommender models onto heterogeneous hardwares. For 4.5+ years, I worked within the Ads ML and AI Infra - Feature & Training Data Infra Org at Meta where we built ML compiler driven Feature Engineering Platform and Infra that enables feature authoring using expressive pythonic language and does a multi-query optimizations to generate efficient streaming and batch data pipelines. It also applies privacy enforcement and serves these features (leveraging custom C++/Velox DAG engine) at a massive scale for ML inference/training within Ads ranking and delivery, Modern Recommendation Systems for FB/IG, Integrity, Commerce, Search, Shops etc. For a couple of years, I have also worked within Ads Realtime Delivery org where I contributed to building an innovative Search + SQL engine driven analytics platform optimized for providing estimates of very large search queries with strict SLAs (< 20ms). This also involved building large-scale custom stream processing and batch systems to store peta-bytes of data in online storage systems enabling us to achieve this. The platform Is used for multiple use cases within Ads targeting, Bidding, Pacing, Audience / Pre-Campaign / Delivery insights, Payments Risk etc.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in the AI/ML and Advertising Technology sectors.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 8 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Data Infrastructure
Career Highlights
- Led modernization of feature infrastructure contributing to $100M revenue.
- Optimized large-scale AI models for real-time inference.
- Developed predictive models enhancing digital marketing strategies.
Work Experience
Meta
Staff Software Engineer (8 yrs 11 mos)
Adobe
Research Intern (2 mos)
Education
Bachelor’s Degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
High School at Air Force Bal Bharati Public School, New Delhi
High School at CSKM Public School, New Delhi
Bachelor's degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi