Abhay Prakash
Staff Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at Google
Roorkee, Uttarakhand, United States
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Top SchoolAbhay Prakash is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in applied machine learning with 12 years of experience building personalization and retrieval systems at Google and Microsoft. He currently leads work on personalized query recommendations for Google Discover, having built user-query affinity models and ranking pipelines that combine deep learning and large language models. Previously he drove shopping personalization and user-retention/anti-abuse efforts in GPay, and won a Bing Excellence Award for an AI-driven solution that supported handloom small businesses—work noted by Satya Nadella. His background includes research-quality conversational ranking published at SIGIR and hands-on production engineering across search, recommendation, and conversational systems. Based in Roorkee with an integrated B.Tech/M.Tech in CSE from IIT Roorkee, he blends academic rigor with product-focused execution at scale. He quietly specializes in turning research prototypes into robust, privacy-conscious features that measurably improve user engagement.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Github Skills (9)
php3
protobuf2
protocol-buffers2
libgit22
hacklang2
ecdsa1
git1
diffie-hellman1
protoc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abhayprakash/personalizedWebSearchChallenge
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:134 commits in 1 month
abhayprakash/triviaGeneration
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:137 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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