Lavanya Viswanathan

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States8 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building AI-powered ad products at scale.
  • Proven track record in developing high-throughput data pipelines.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Ad Tech and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningGenerative AiWeb EngineeringProject ManagementSoftware DesignAmazon Web Services (aws)Java

Other Skills

EngineeringProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct Road MappingLead GenerationAWS LambdaElasticsearchAWS BatchS3Elastic File SystemHibernateSpring FrameworkJAX-RSScalaSQL

About

Senior Software Engineer at Meta with a backend focus, building AI-powered ad products that drives impact at scale. I architect distributed backend systems, build LLM-based agentic workflows, high-throughput data pipelines , build end to end advertiser and consumer experiences for Meta ads using graph databases and React. Previously at AWS and Goldman Sachs, I've spent nearly a decade designing systems where reliability, scalability, and real business impact intersect. From event-driven ingestion pipelines and microservices platforms — I love solving hard backend problems end to end. Always open to connecting with fellow engineers and builders. 🚀

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

  • Drove the end-to-end development of a Generative AI-based lead form generation solution, which automatically created lead forms by scraping website ads. This initiative, developed in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, achieved over $1.5M daily adoption.
  • Led a team of 2 engineers team in the creation of the Lead Ads Multi submission ad placement feature. This involved developing the Ad retrieval and delivery pipeline using advanced AI/ML techniques and integrating with existing Facebook application features.
  • Drove development of the Lead Ads Ads Manager product, launching features like form template creation, optional/conditional questions, and form preview capabilities. These features drove over $2M in daily adoption revenue.
  • Ideated and implemented an enhanced data pipeline utilizing website scraped form questions and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms.
Web EngineeringEngineeringProject ManagementProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct Road Mapping+4

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Expedited Elastic Search cluster ingestion process to few minutes by using concurrent AWS Lambdas and fine- tuning bulk ingestion process and index metrics.
  • Designed and built a new AWS product’s event based scalable ingestion service using AWS Batch, S3, Elastic File System. Improved on the Batch job performance by evaluating EFS, S3, in-memory file system using metrics.
  • Designed the data model for Elastic Search and setup continuous index creation and management.
AWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Elasticsearch

Keck medicine of usc

Volunteer Research Assistant

Sep 2020Dec 2020 · 3 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos · United States

Usc auxiliary services

Student Worker

Aug 2019Oct 2019 · 2 mos · Los Angeles

  • Worked with the USC Transportation team to help them onboard to Razor Sync app.
  • Worked on daily Excel and Word reports.

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Technology Analyst 2

Jan 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Developed a client report generation application for an EU based legislation where data from different sources were aggregated in the data lake. Built micro services to perform logical transformations, lookups and created a reporting layer that rendered PDF reports.
  • Used Sybase, JAX-RS, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Perl, Service cloud and Shell scripting.
  • Expedited client report generation process by developing an efficient caching mechanism and data parallelism using technologies like Apache Ignite cache.
  • Proposed and worked on an E-Statement application to replace paper client statements. I primarily worked on sourcing email lists with Operations team, automated the mapping of statements with email lists by created an aggregation layer of all emails for a given client in Java. I also developed a module that validates report content and handles bounce back.
  • Developed a dashboard for enhancing client experience using Angular with unit tests in Jasmine for tracking the process of report generation and through this reduced time spent on giving updates top Operations.
  • Mentored and managed Interns with their projects.
  • Technologies used: Java, Hibernate, Spring, JAX-RS, Junit, Cucumber, Apache Ignite, Spark, DB2, Sybase, Maven, Gradle, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Technology Analyst (Software Engineer)

Jun 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Developed models for calculating liquidity risk metrics based on Federation’s regulation leveraging GS in-house technology, Java, Scala and Sybase.
  • Worked on refactoring SQL queries and ETL APIs which improved the performance of liquidity report generation.
  • Enhanced dashboards to incorporate new reporting metrics, charts and signing off components in Javascript, AngularJS.
  • Technologies used: Python, Scala, Java, Javascript, AngularJS, SQL.

Morgan stanley

Summer Analyst

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Designed a dashboard for health analysis of applications for detecting incoming application failures based on usages of CPU and memory.
  • Built a data access layer with MySQL, data sourcing client in Java which ingests from Splunk logs and a front end in Angular JS and D3.
  • Technology stack: Angular JS, D3, Java, SQL and Hibernate

Education

RV College Of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

University of Southern California

Master's degree — Computer Science

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