Hardik Shah
Engineering Manager at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHardik Shah is an Engineering Manager and AI researcher with 11 years of experience building production computer vision and vision-language systems, currently leading teams at Meta focused on image understanding, cross-modal retrieval, and AR/VR. He brings deep applied ML expertise from roles that spanned the ad-tech stack—designing large-scale classification engines and big data pipelines that powered digital video advertising. At Meta he contributes to high-impact projects such as Meta-llama and Llama Stack, blending cutting-edge model work with product-driven engineering. Hardik pairs a strong academic foundation (M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 3.95 GPA, USC) with hands-on experience shipping scalable pipelines and real-time multimedia features. He’s known for turning research prototypes into robust production services and for bridging vision, NLP, and systems engineering across teams. Based in San Francisco, he combines technical leadership with a pragmatic focus on deployable AI for consumer-facing AR/VR experiences.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA : 3.95 / 4.0, Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA : 3.95 / 4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Github Skills (10)
amqp9
queue9
python9
redis9
task-manager9
task-queue8
distributed-lock8
task-scheduler8
microservices6
distributed-systems6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hardikjshah/llama-stack
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Composable building blocks to build Llama Apps
Contributions:7 pushes, 6 branches in 10 days
meta-llama/llama-stack-apps
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Agentic components of the Llama Stack APIs
Contributions:10 reviews, 12 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
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