Arihan Jalan

AI Researcher

India7 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led complex data engineering projects at Meta.
  • Optimized data pipelines saving over $1M annually.
  • Developed metrics driving user engagement and retention.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert in the Gaming industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringData ArchitectureBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence (bi)

Other Skills

PrestoData StructuresSolution ArchitectureData ManagementData ModelingBig DataApache SparkData IntegrationInformation ExtractionBig Data AnalyticsJavaScriptProject ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipData GovernanceData Visualization

About

Senior Data Engineer (6+ years) in gaming & entertainment. Designed, built, optimized end-to-end petabyte-scale data pipelines & analytics dashboards that drive business KPIs using SQL (Spark, Presto, Redshift), Python, R, & TS/JS. Measured & drove decision making on user engagement, retention, and performance. I’ve led complex projects, developed metrics, & enhanced infrastructure.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Meta

Senior Data Engineer

Mar 2022Mar 2026 · 4 yrs · Seattle, WA · On-site

  • FB Play is one of the largest gaming platforms.
  • I initiated & aligned the team on projects to design & build Facebook Gaming's data foundation; and I've shaped how it measures loading, engagement, retention, revenue, and promotions. My logging, datasets, pipelines, and metrics unlocked user, game, and platform level insights.
  • I re-architected the products' sessionization and timespent logic. This unlocked sub-session insights, helped identify loading issues, and corrected a massive signal loss; while lowering this solutions compute costs by 80% and saving the company >$1M per year.
  • Advocate for & build better growth accounting tooling. I overhauled the team's growth accounting dataset, metrics, and dashboards; which led to a shift on how we thought about retention, our drivers of growth, and product investment focuses.
  • Identify decision making data gaps & either build internal measurment or procure external data to close it. When the latter- identify & work with external companies to validate, compare, and build use cases for their data. Negotiate pricing and work with leadership, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders to move the deal through- and ingesting and operationalizing their data. Document the entire process and create frameworks to enable others to do so easily and in a standardized way.
  • Come up with and implement new metrics and visualization ideas. The deep-dive dashboards I've developed have been used to identify and resolve product gaps and problems- and used by directors, managers, and various XFN groups (DS, PM, Eng, SPM, etc.).
  • Lead initiatives across Play, Dating, Marketplace, and other pillars to identify & audit data artifacts. This initiative led to several instances of improved data insights (e.g.- consolidate functionality from 7x different dashboards in one through new backend tooling); as well as significantly lowered the the team's overall compute footprint.
PrestoData StructuresSolution ArchitectureData ManagementData ModelingBusiness Intelligence (BI)+12

Gamesight

Data Engineer

Jul 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

  • Gamesight empowers publishers to engage the right influencers and effectively measure influencer marketing performance for PC and console games. I’ve augmented Gamesight’s competitive edge by:
  • Develop; maintain data collection, transformation, & analytical pipelines using big-data tech to build data used to secure contracts, analyze operational insights, identify high-value clients.
  • Create data-powered engagement, conversion likelihood KPIs to enrich talent selection. Build optimization framework to maximize reach; integrate new industry insights to max. impact.
  • Transform client asks into KPIs, review peer code + work, host dev-talks to build team skills, create technical documentation, and develop new workflows- Improve operational efficiency.
  • Use ML to cluster talent groups, gauge pricing, estimate cross-device conversions to help partners capture the causal impact of ads and stop over-relying on clicks, etc.
  • Analyze insights into audience data, industry trends; author written, design visual key content for market reports, online blog, and pitch decks.
Data EngineeringData StructuresData MiningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data ModelingBusiness Intelligence (BI)+11

University of washington

Student IT Admin Level 2

May 2018Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

  • Work with HFS IT to investigate systems and conduct team and end user interviews to analyze and diagram application interfaces and how HFS employees manage data. It resulted in a comprehensive system document of all business operations solutions analyzed.
  • Typical work included working on department wide projects such as workstation deployment imaging; creating tailored guides on system setup and maintenance; shortlisting computer programs, tuning them to company-needs, developing support documentation, and handling deployment; and suggesting changes to IT infrastructure to increase feature usage.
  • Duties also comprised of communicating with application super users, staff and students on support cases, upgrades, and training in a professional manner over the phone or in person; and identifying and initiating communication with prospective partners on behalf of the UW.

Iprospect

2 roles

Summer Internship (Social Media Handler; Content Creation Internship)

Jul 2017Aug 2017 · 1 mo

  • Worked with iProspect to develop my design, programming, and marketing skills through undertaking projects to increase brand reach, employee efficiency, event hype. Projects included designing media for an ongoing national sports tournament, building brand image and increasing audience engagement through social media campaigns and user-generated content, and finding new ways platforms to engage users with.

Summer Internship (Web Dev, Content Creation, Online Reputation Mgmt.)

Jul 2016Sep 2016 · 2 mos

  • Worked on existing technology like optimizing JavaScript pages and documenting how to migrate Wordpress sites, as well as upcoming technology like programming for the Amazon Echo and leveraging Facebook's Graph API to analyze user posts. Aside from programming, I developed content for iProspect clients Facebook pages and websites in the form of written media and designs made using Photoshop and Animatron.

Croma, infiniti retail limited

Internship (Sale Representative; Community Outreach & Promotion)

May 2015Jun 2015 · 1 mo

  • Onsite sales representative for electronics and troubleshooting. Inacted month end clearance sale to clear out old goods through tracking low-priced and slow-moving goods that were heavily discounted, but often went unseen. Noticed the store didn't have a strong online presence; changed it through online promotion on relevant online forums and social media, increasing customer interactions and visits and driving up product sales with no monetary investment.

Education

University of Washington

Informatics — Data Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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