Manik Bhandari
Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManik Bhandari is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with a decade of experience building and fine-tuning large language and multimodal models for safe, production-ready use. Currently at Meta focusing on LLM/LVM safety, he previously led applied-science efforts at Amazon to finetune 100B+ parameter models for API-calling conversational agents and architected a personalized query-rewriting search stack that serves millions with sub-50ms latency and drives significant revenue. His background spans recommender systems, large-scale graph-based collaborative filtering, knowledge-graph construction, and rigorous evaluation work from his CMU research—where he highlighted gaps in summarization metrics. Known for shipping scalable systems (including a memory-resident graph structure and state-of-the-art IE methods) and bridging research-to-production, he combines academic rigor with measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Computational Data Science, Master of Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (43)
python10
github-pages10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
data-science9
data-structure9
pandas9
text-summarization9
data-analysis9
cpp9
data-structures9
sequence-to-sequence8
statistics8
llm-inference8
artificial-intelligence8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
manikbhandari/notes
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
manikbhandari/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
first-repository
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