Kapil Dalwani
Tech Lead Software Engineer, Machine Learning At Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKapil Dalwani is a seasoned machine learning engineering leader with 15 years of experience building large-scale search, recommendation, and ranking systems across Meta, Apple, Eventbrite, and YellowPages. As Tech Lead at Meta he architects end-to-end candidate generation and deep ranking pipelines for personalized video and marketplace recommendations at billion-user scale, driving adoption of Transformers, multi-task/MoE models, and LLM-based content understanding. He has a strong track record of productionizing ML—from Spark/Hadoop feature pipelines and feature stores to PyTorch ranking models and signal collection infrastructure—and excels at mentoring teams and shaping technical direction. Earlier work includes relaunching Apple Maps search with learning-to-rank models and improving event discovery at Eventbrite using SOLR/Lucene and social-graph recommendations. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and combines IR/NLP expertise with pragmatic big-data engineering, often bridging research ideas into measurable product impact.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversitySelf Driving Car Nano Degree Term 1, Self Driving Car Nano Degree Term 1 at UdacityB.E., B.E. at Punjab Engineering College
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Github Skills (28)
gradient8
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machine-learning7
scalable7
python7
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information-retrieval6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kapild/datascience
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 81 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningdata-science-projects
kapild/deeplearning
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 16 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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