Akashnil Dutta
Research Engineer at Stealth Startup
Newark, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkashnil Dutta is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across startups and tech giants, currently working on ads targeting and delivery at Meta. He previously drove personalization for LinkedIn’s People You May Know using meta-learning and developed models to detect original content for LinkedIn Pages. His background includes early-stage systems work as a founding engineer at YugaByte and an applied research stint at OpenAI, giving him a blend of product-focused engineering and research-informed modeling. Comfortable shipping at scale, he has experience across recommendation, ranking, and content attribution domains. Based in Newark, California, he pairs an MIT education in Computer Science and Mathematics with a track record of moving experimental models into high-throughput production environments. Notably, his career moves reflect a pattern of tackling both low-level system challenges and high-impact ML personalization problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
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locking10
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databases10
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distributed-database10
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data-structures6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Akashnil/pokerbot_simulator
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Akashnil/static_solver
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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