Ashwin Ambalavanan
Machine Learning Serving Engineer - L6 at Samsung Ads
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Ambalavanan is a Machine Learning Serving Engineer with 9 years of experience building high-scale, cost-efficient ML infrastructure and real-time pricing systems from research prototypes to production. At Samsung Ads he led KServe productionization with model sharding and xDS+gRPC routing to achieve hundreds of thousands QPS with sub-30ms P95 latencies while cutting memory and CPU costs nearly in half. He architected and migrated ML Pricing Engines and feature pipelines to AWS/Kubernetes, drove zero-downtime rollouts for CTV traffic, and unlocked $1M+ revenue opportunities by enabling CPA pricing and bid optimization. Comfortable spanning model development, feature engineering, serving, and infra automation, he has a track record of resolving critical runtime issues (e.g., goroutine leaks, cold starts) and improving incident detection and availability. His background in NLP and biomedical text mining informs a pragmatic approach to feature design and model validation, and he consistently prioritizes developer experience through CI/CD and self-serve tooling. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends research-origin insights with production discipline to scale ML systems toward million-QPS targets.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityInternational Indian School, RiyadhBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at College of Engineering, GuindyHigh School Certificate High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School Certificate High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at Indian Community School Kuwait
English, Tamil, French, Hindi
Github Skills (50)
nvidia-docker10
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
tensorrt10
machine-learning10
ml10
nvidia10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
natural-language-processing10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AshwinAmbal/Mining-User-Interests-for-Social-Commerce
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
A system to suggest gifts fitting the interests and the likes of the user based on their social media profile.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
djangosuggestlikesfittingsocial-media
AshwinAmbal/Netbanking
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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