Amit Goyal
Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Meta
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmit Goyal is a seasoned software engineer specializing in machine learning with nine years of experience building large-scale search, ranking, recommendation, and ads delivery systems at Meta, Google, and Twitter. He combines deep research roots—a PhD focused on influence propagation and viral marketing—with hands-on production work in embedding-based retrieval, real-time signal processing, and end-to-end delivery optimization. At Meta he’s driven ads ranking and resource-optimal delivery while earlier improving Marketplace search quality and recommendation pipelines. Amit’s background in influence modeling and scalable graph algorithms gives him a unique perspective on user behavior and recommendation dynamics that informs practical product improvements. Based in Fremont, CA, he blends academic rigor with production-grade engineering across the full ML stack.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaGithub contributions (1)
jjboo/InfMax
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 23 pushes, 2 comments in 3 months
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