Summary
Aritra Mandal is a Senior Technical Staff and Machine Learning Lead with a decade of experience building production-grade language models and query understanding systems for e-commerce search at eBay. He combines deep expertise in big data stacks (Hadoop, Hive, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Oozie) and scalable Java/Python pipelines with applied research in classification, regression and pattern-mining algorithms. At eBay he has progressed from Applied Researcher to leading the next generation of search annotation LLMs, reflecting both research rigor and delivery at scale. Earlier roles include building anomaly-detection ML modules at PayPal and large-scale data-mining platforms in financial services, and academic work on graph search and spatio-temporal mining. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he also works on large-scale Scala data-processing tooling and maintains an active interest in competitive programming, graph theory and distributed systems. He aims to bridge research and engineering to deliver innovative, production-ready ML solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Science with Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science and English, Higher Secondary, Science with Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science and English at DAV Model School, IIT Kharagpur
Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Science, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Science at Indiana University Indianapolis
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
English, Bengali, Hindi