Debanik Purkayastha
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDebanik Purkayastha is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta with seven years of experience building AI-first products, currently focused on generative AI and AI agents after contributing to Live video features on iOS. Trained in biomedical engineering and computer science at Johns Hopkins, he combines strong systems and ML intuition from both academic and applied robotics work to solve real-world problems. His background includes internships at Medtronic and SINAPSE where he delivered measurable improvements—such as boosting robotic grasp recognition from 70% to 92%—and automation that cut translation cycle times by roughly 40%. Comfortable across mobile, backend, and ML stacks, he brings production-grade engineering rigor (unit tests, EFCore, LINQ) alongside research-adjacent experience in dataset generation and CNN training. Based in New York, he blends healthcare-minded thinking with product-scale AI development, and maintains a public portfolio at debanikpurkayastha.com.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (4)
engage10
web-platform8
javascript7
react7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Covaid-co/covaid-web
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:112 commits, 9 PRs, 164 pushes in 8 months
debanik1997/covaid
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Covaid is a web-platform that allows communities to engage in mutual aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contributions:415 commits, 14 PRs, 555 pushes in 2 months
web-platformreactengagejavascriptmutual-aid
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