Akash Rastogi
Senior Software Engineer - ML Creative Ads Ranking Team
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Rastogi is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning for ads ranking, with a decade of experience building and shipping multimodal AI systems. He has led ML teams at Meta and AppZen, delivering production-grade solutions that combine computer vision, NLP, graph transformers and LLMs to turn images and text into structured insights. Trained at the University of Michigan in ML and applied statistics, he has repeatedly taken end-to-end ownership—from model research to deployment and team leadership—across finance and advertising products. Notably, his work at AppZen advanced deep-learning pipelines for autonomous AP and expense audits, demonstrating a knack for practical, multimodal engineering rather than purely academic models. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering with people and project management to scale complex ML initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Applied Statistics, Master of Science (MS) Applied Statistics at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolMaster's degree Machine learning (CS), Master's degree Machine learning (CS) at University of MichiganIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur12th board, 12th board at City Montessori School, Lucknow
Github Skills (20)
flask9
react9
data-visualization8
data-analysis8
python8
data-analytics8
apache8
analytics8
visualization8
data-science8
asf7
data-engineering7
plotly-dash7
warehouse7
superset7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aniketde/Domain2Vec
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:49 commits in 9 months
akashr050/img_inpaint
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
deep-learninginpaintingcomputer-visionimage-processingimage-inpainting
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