Manav Kataria
Senior Staff TLM End-to-End ML Infra at Cruise
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolManav Kataria is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling end-to-end ML infrastructure and distributed training systems, currently leading Senior Staff TLM for ML at Cruise in San Francisco. He blends deep technical expertise—from self-driving car perception and computer vision to ML platform engineering—with strategic team building and product-minded execution developed at AWS, Orbital Insight, and Amazon. A pragmatic operator who moves research into production, he has a track record of winning hackathons, mentoring student self-driving projects at IIT Bombay, and advising startups as an active investor and speaker. His open-source work spans hardware-aware experiments and web/mobile projects, including a self-driving car repo and award-winning email summarization hacks, reflecting a hands-on approach to applied research. Manav is known for aligning engineering goals with company mission while building cross-functional consensus and turning data into actionable insight. He balances big-picture strategy with implementation grit, often contributing prototypes that bridge novel algorithms and production constraints.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBE Information Technology | Computer Science, BE Information Technology | Computer Science at Manipal Institute of TechnologyPioneer Program Building an Open-Source Self-Driving Car, Pioneer Program Building an Open-Source Self-Driving Car at Udacity
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Github Skills (50)
transport10
logging10
jruby10
streaming10
git9
datetime9
java9
github9
python9
etl-framework9
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logstash9
timestamp9
visualizations7
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Github contributions (5)
manavkataria/behavioral_cloning_car
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
manavkataria/Duel-Off
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 13 days
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