aakash sabharwal
Staff Software Engineer, Search Ranking (Data Science) at Etsy
senior engineering manager etsy
Etsy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/etsy
Context Specific Ranking: Led the development of Etsy's re-ranking platform for Organic Search & Computational Advertisement ranking.

- Data engineering: Training & Feature Data extraction
- Feature Quantization & Engineering libraries
- Model training systems
- Model Deployment & Inference systems
- Prototyping and launching multiple variants of search ranking models leading to major KPI wins
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Staff Software Engineer, Search Ranking (Data Science)
Etsy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/etsy
Joined as part of the Blackbird acquisition. 
Continuing to work on Search, AI, Large Scale Distributed Systems and Systems Infrastructure Challenges!
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Software Engineer
Quantifind
https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantifind
• Tweet suggestions for Topic Building. Latent semantic analysis over tweet documents to generate nearest neighbor word suggestions for topic building. 
• Machine Learning Insights Ranking platform. Generating insights from Twitter data - computing simulation based confidence intervals and ranking those insights based on different customizable  metrics.
• Correlation metrics for relating different sets of time series drawn over social and KPI data to best gather insights about what drives user intent.
• Wrote a Scalding - Hadoop based ETL pipeline that processes a TB of Facebook data each day. 
• Worked on our in-house in-memory Akka based realtime data system. Terabytes of tweets are kept in-memory in a bit packed format allowing low latency data slicing operations. 
• Was the lead engineer for a real time data platform project which currently powers the entire Quantifind product offering. Written in Scala with multi threading using Futures, Database layer in Postgres / Slick and web server using Unfiltered.
Menlo Park
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Data Science
Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-mellon-university
Worked with Professor Jaime Carbonell on unsupervised Machine Learning problems around matching skills with candidates in the field of recruiting.
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Researcher
Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-mellon-university
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Computer Systems
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/
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Teaching Assistant 15-213
Platfora
https://www.linkedin.com/company/platfora
•	Investigated open source parsing (OpenCSV) and rewrote the entire Hadoop Job for Data Ingest in order to make it 2x-3x faster. 
•	Wrote an Amazon Elastic Map Reduce Emulator to build lenses (in-memory summary of Hadoop data) locally over an EMR environment.
•	Improved usability around getting appropriate Hadoop counters, warnings and pulling job configuration from MR jobs.
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Software Engineering Intern
Ooyala
https://www.linkedin.com/company/daletflex
• Designed and implemented a real time video trending pipeline in Scala / Storm (framework).
• The final version given raw player logs could compute top k videos based on 5 different
algorithms and then these results could be filtered with various key combinations.
• Deployed and set up the staging (testing) environment by writing a Hadoop Job to continuously
feed raw player logs and extract useful information from them.
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Software Engineering Intern
Bachelors of Science
Computer Science
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Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university/
Quantifind
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Understanding the Role of Style in E-commerce Shopping
KDD 2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3292500.3330760
Developed a mini MapReduce framework in Java. Implemented much of the same design as used in Hadoop. Report of implementation details available upon request.
MapReduce Framework
https://www.linkedin.com/in/biaochang
San Francisco, CA
Biao "Bill" Chang, Ph.D.
Engineering Manager, Applied Machine Learning at Etsy
https://mx.linkedin.com/in/eduardo-pineda-martinez
Mexico City
Eduardo Pineda Martínez
Software Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanthbala
Palo Alto, CA
Prashanth Bala
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mertsanver
Seattle, WA
Mert Sanver
Director of Engineering - Machine Learning at Etsy. Keeping Commerce Human and Always Hiring.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-xu
New York, NY
Chris Xu
Head of Data Science, Oculus Engagement & Growth
https://in.linkedin.com/in/akshay-vaidya-908702
Pune
Akshay Vaidya.
Head of Engineering and India site lead at Helpshift
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierre-jammes-73b0315
Bellevue, WA
Pierre Jammes
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayushkumar
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Aayush Kumar
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-gao-34ab0363
San Francisco Bay Area
Lee Gao
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-daniel-14b2a83
Columbus, OH
Nicholas Daniel
Vice President, Product Management at Etsy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nguyencindy2
San Francisco Bay Area
Cindy Nguyen
Executive Recruiting at Facebook
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahua
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Sha Hua
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/di-li-64ab6053
San Francisco, CA
Di Li
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyxidelin
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Cindy Lin
Angel Investor & Director of Engineering at Circle. We are hiring.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wangtian
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Tian Wang
Hobbyist woodworker with some management and coding experience
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/changchen10
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Aakash Sabharwal
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AAKASH SABHARWAL
Student at I.G.N.O.U