Ayush Pandey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorAyush 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—refactoring learning-to-rank internals, fixing memory leaks, and adding ERR scoring—which 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.
10 years of coding experience
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.
xapian
AyushP123/xapian
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:271 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 8 months
mergedpull-requestsxapianwelcome
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