Manthan Thakker
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManthan Thakker is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with nine years of experience building production-grade cloud and AI services, currently contributing to Azure Cognitive Services on deep learning, NLP, speech and vision. He specializes in sequence-to-sequence models (Transformers, LSTMs), multi-task and transfer learning, knowledge distillation, and optimizations for real-time multilingual and multimodal scenarios. Earlier roles at Microsoft and startups span high-availability systems, cost-saving infrastructure optimizations, large-scale streaming data pipelines, and a lightweight versioning system that processed 600M records in minutes. As a former co-founder who launched a multi-state e-commerce site and a presenter of technical talks to Northeastern CS students, he blends product intuition with research-driven engineering. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern and a CS bachelor from the University of Mumbai, and is engaged with Microsoft Research initiatives toward integrative AI.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at Northeastern UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.8, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.8 at University of Mumbai
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (47)
classifier10
wordnet10
word2vec9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
bengali9
lda9
document-classification9
similarity9
fasttext9
classification9
tf-idf9
topic-modeling9
glove9
nlp8
sentence-similarity8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manthanthakker/InformationRetrieval
Dec 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
manthanthakker/BitcoinPrediction
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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