Ayush聽Pandey
Senior Software Engineer, Perception at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyush Pandey is a Senior Software Engineer in Perception at Waymo with nine years of experience building computer vision and deep learning systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics. He combines research rigor from a CMU Master's in Computer Vision with hands-on production experience at Waymo, HyperVerge, Vimaan, and Tonbo Imaging, often leading teams and shipping deployed face-dedup and perception pipelines. His open-source work includes nontrivial backend contributions to the Xapian search library鈥攔efactoring learning-to-rank internals, fixing memory leaks, and adding ERR scoring鈥攚hich reflects a knack for improving core systems beyond model training. Based in Mountain View, he brings a blend of applied research, systems-level debugging, and production optimization to perception stacks, plus an uncommon strength in reworking legacy code paths to improve performance and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lilavatibai Podar Sr Secondary SchoolR. N. Podar SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Vision, Master's degree, Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
Github Skills (11)
search-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
xapian10
apidoc9
data-structure9
api9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xapian/xapian
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Mirror of the Xapian repository. You're welcome to open pull requests on github (they'll just get merged indirectly).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 198 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ayush primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Xapian-Letor component, a learning-to-rank module within the Xapian search engine library. Their contributions include fixing memory leaks and improving the existing code by replacing Feature::Internal with FeatureList::Internal, which resulted in the optimization of statistics calculation within features and the addition of MSet methods to re-rank and replace weights. They also incorporated the ERR scorer. This demonstrates a strong understanding of the library's internal workings.
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AyushP123/xapian
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:271 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 8 months
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