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Mountain View, California, US

Behavior Reasoning for Motion Planning

San Francisco, CA, US

Technical lead in Prediction and Motion Planning team. Our mission is to predict the future trajectories and behaviors of obstacles (pedestrians, vehicles, cyclists, etc.) and plan vehicle motion/behavior accordingly. We use a combination of expert (rule-based) systems and Machine Learned models. - Led an ML team responsible for applying state of the art.

San Francisco, CA, US

Tech Lead and architected the Machine learning based marketing automation platform to improve cost and volume efficiency in an ever-changing marketplace.

San Francisco, CA, US

Tech Lead for the Passenger Acquisition team to grow Lyft user base. Tackling problems like referral recommendations, coupon optimizations, gift cards and a lot of A/B experimentation. Technologies include tools like AWS DynamoDB, Redshift, Mongo DB, PHP, Python, Hive, Airflow, Mode, Splunk etc.

San Francisco, California, US

At Salesforce was part of the Search Relevance team. Mainly working on the information retrieval techniques and machine learning algorithms for search relevance, A/B Experimentation as well as the underlying platform for ranker and indexing. Using a mix of popular technologies such as SOLR, SPLUNK, Hadoop, TSDB, Zookeeper.As a lead member of technical.

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked as part of the Offline Distributed App platform team for Microsoft's search engine BING. Helped create pipelines for acquisition, processing and publishing of data by building developer toolsets and providing hosted distributed environment to schedule those pipeline jobs. The hosted environment schedules a few hundred thousand compute intensive jobs.

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked as a Software Design Engineer in the Visual Studio C++ libraries team. Our team was responsible for shipping and maintaining the STL library in compliance with the international C++ standards and also test for quality against factors like performance, flexibility etc. Some main projects: - C++0x implementation verification. Libraries like Threading.

Woburn, MA, US

Worked on a search engine used to find the optimal fares for air travel which is integrated in a number of agent websites which provide searching and booking services. Since search is time critical process, the algorithms used need to be very fast and effective. Also the data synchronization is very vital as the fare prices get updated frequently. I worked.

MURF-The Virtual Touch Screen; Designed and implemented a useful application which simulates the regular monitor screen into a touch screen just with the help of a single webcam. It uses core concepts of image processing along with adequate use of mathematical, probabilistic calculations. skin detection, motion detection and background reduction.