Jigyasa Grover
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJigyasa Grover is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years deploying ML systems at scale and 11 years of overall engineering experience, currently driving ads prediction and app install ranking at Twitter across multiple surfaces like Timeline, Conversations, and Search. She specializes in production ML infrastructure, core modeling for install and click prediction, feature engineering pipelines, privacy-preserving solutions, and ATT remediation for iOS. A published author and researcher—co-author of Sculpting Data for ML and contributor to Springer on fake news detection—she takes a data-centric approach to model quality and dataset curation. An active open-source contributor and one of the few ML Google Developer Experts globally, her earlier contributions include backend and full-stack work on widely used projects like loklak_server and SUSI.AI, integrating RSS and event crawlers into distributed social media indexing and assistant platforms. Recognized with multiple industry and community awards (VentureBeat, Women of Impact, Next Generation Leader) and scholarships, she also leads open-source and ML initiatives in community groups such as Anita Borg’s IWiC and Women@ML. Based in San Francisco with a UC San Diego MS in CS (AI specialization) and diverse R&D experience across Facebook, NRC Canada, and European institutes, she blends research rigor with product-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
University of California, San DiegoCornell, Maryland, and Max Planck Pre‑Doctoral Research School
Github Skills (16)
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json10
api-rest10
rss10
javas10
rest-api10
eventbrite10
jsoup10
backend10
webscraping10
back-end-development10
api-design10
java10
restful-api10
wordpress9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
loklak/loklak_server
May 2016 - May 2017
Distributed Open Source twitter and social media message search server that anonymously collects, shares, dumps and indexes data http://api.loklak.org
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 105 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jigyasa implemented features related to RSS feeds and event data aggregation. This included developing an RSS reader, integrating event data from Eventbrite, and building a Wordpress crawler, suggesting both backend and potential frontend involvement. The user also worked on integrating these crawlers into the core server functionality and console, enhancing the Loklak server's ability to gather and process diverse data sources.
search-servertwitter
fossasia/susi_server
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
SUSI.AI server backend - the Artificial Intelligence server for personal assistants https://susi.ai
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jigyasa contributed to the backend of the SUSI.AI server, focusing on RSS feed integration and event-related functionalities. The code changes include the implementation of an RSS reader using Java, and the creation of an Eventbrite crawler. They also modified the LoklakServer to incorporate the new features and included updates to the project's dependencies. Further contributions involved changes to the console service.
artificial-intelligencebackend
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