Summary
Dwarak Parthiban is a systems-and-AI-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience spanning infrastructure, platform, retrieval, and trust & safety work. After research that produced a master's thesis and an AAAI'21 paper, he moved into industry roles at Freshworks, FreshBooks, Amazon, Kira Systems, and a multi-year tenure at Etsy where he shipped production retrieval and ML systems and worked on Trust & Safety. Now a co-founder at s2.dev in Edmonton, he blends hands-on engineering with research instincts to build robust, scalable ML-driven platforms. Comfortable across QA, infra, product, and research teams, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-oriented execution to early-stage ventures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Tamil, English