Kaushik Rangadurai
AI Research Scientist at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaushik Rangadurai is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale ML and recommendation systems at Meta, Google, LinkedIn and earlier roles across Microsoft, Yahoo and startups. He specializes in the intersection of generative AI and recommender systems—LLM-driven recommender architectures, retrieval scaling, sequential and graph-based recommendations—and has productionized ranking, retrieval and training-optimization solutions for search, feed and communities. At Meta he drove core ML for Marketplace Search, Groups and Home while publishing research at KDD on media search and query/document understanding, reflecting a strong research-to-production track record. Previously he helped shape NLU and retrieval at a pre-Series A Passage AI (acquired by ServiceNow), and at LinkedIn rewrote Job Recommendations and filed 13 patents on recommendation tech. Based in Mountain View, Kaushik blends deep systems thinking with hands-on engineering across retrieval, scoring and large-scale training pipelines—an engineer who routinely mentors teams and turns research insights into production impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at DAV Senior Secondary School, ChennaiBachelor of Technology Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science & Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNon Degree Option Natural Language Processing With Deep Learning (CS224N), Non Degree Option Natural Language Processing With Deep Learning (CS224N) at Stanford University
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (27)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
python10
sequence-to-sequence10
named-entity-recognition9
text-classification9
natural-language-processing9
ai9
cython9
nlp9
deep-learning8
spacy8
entity-linking8
coreference-resolution8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kaushik88/kaushik88.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jun 2020
Personal website
Contributions:170 commits, 418 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
reactnextjs
kaushik88/weakLearner
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:140 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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