Anirud Thyagharajan
Computer Vision Engineer at Meta
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnirud Thyagharajan is a Computer Vision Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building scene-understanding systems for mixed reality at Meta Reality Labs. He blends deep research expertise in 3D computer vision and ML with practical systems knowledge from prior roles at Intel Labs—where his work produced multiple patents and publications—and contributions to production-grade open-source projects like the tusd resumable upload server. A Dual Degree graduate from IIT Kharagpur with top departmental honors and an award-winning master’s thesis, he pairs strong theoretical grounding with hands-on engineering across CV, ML, and computer architecture. Based in Zurich, he is comfortable moving research into deployable solutions, optimizing both algorithmic accuracy and system-level performance. Notably, his background spans accelerator-aware algorithm design and backend systems work, giving him a rare cross-stack perspective useful for real-time mixed-reality applications.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE Examinations, 95.29%, ICSE Examinations, 95.29% at Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai.Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree BTech & MTech, Instrumentation and Signal Processing, 9.41 on a scale of 10, Electrical Engineering, Dual Degree BTech & MTech, Instrumentation and Signal Processing, 9.41 on a scale of 10 at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurGrade 12, Science, 94.00%, Grade 12, Science, 94.00% at Maharashtra HSC Examinations
Github Skills (3)
go10
file-storage9
api-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tus/tusd
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Reference server implementation in Go of tus: the open protocol for resumable file uploads
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Anirud primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `tusd` project, focusing on data store implementations and related functionality. They fixed typos and improved code clarity in existing datastore files. Furthermore, they implemented and refined features for managing file uploads, including sorting and terminating uploads to free up space. The user also addressed several bugs related to data handling and storage optimization.
golangtusopen-protocolresumableresumable-upload
anirudt/ideaquest-2016
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 1 branch in 19 days
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