Summary
Mainak Mandal is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, currently leading a 45+ engineer organization at Meta that powers the recommendation and ML infrastructure behind every ad impression across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. He combines hands-on systems design with organizational scaling—growing a small team into multiple high-performing teams supported by senior managers and staff engineers. His background spans production Hadoop migrations and multimedia search at Yahoo and low-level EDA tooling, giving him a rare blend of infrastructure, data processing, and algorithmic foundations. Based in Castro Valley, CA, he holds an MS in Computer Science from Brown and an EECE degree from IIT Bombay, and is known for operationalizing mission-critical ML services at web scale.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Brown University
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati