Kanak Biscuitwala
Software Engineer at Meta
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolKanak Biscuitwala is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, mobile and ML infrastructure, and ad-tech products, currently leading Conversions API efforts at Meta. He moves fluidly from low-level distributed rebalancing logic—contributing to Apache Helix’s core rebalancer—to high-level ML feature authoring and serving for content recommendation. His background includes driving streaming and model-parameter infrastructure at Sift, scaling map visualization systems at Uber, and research-grade mobile security and privacy work at Stanford. Known for both shipping production services and contributing upstream to open source, he blends deep systems design with practical operational rigor. Based in Huntington Beach, CA, he pairs top academic credentials (UCLA BS, Stanford MS) with a track record of solving cross-stack problems that protect and grow ad revenue at scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.99 (Summa Cum Laude), BS, Computer Science, 3.99 (Summa Cum Laude) at University of California, Los AngelesMS, Computer Science, 4.04, MS, Computer Science, 4.04 at Stanford University
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
distributed-systems10
back-end-development10
helix10
java10
testing9
big-data8
macos6
nswindow6
cocoa6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/helix
Sep 2013 - Nov 2015
Mirror of Apache Helix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:324 commits, 59 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kanak's commits focus on enhancing the core rebalancer functionality and implementing new features within the Apache Helix project. Contributions include refactoring and expanding the rebalancer interface to support different rebalancing modes, adding tests to verify behavior for FULL_AUTO mode, and fixing bugs in AutoRebalancer. These changes point to improvements of the core assignment logic and stability enhancements of this distributed system management framework.
helixapachebig-datacloudjava
kanakb/noteshere
Jan 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 4 months
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