Summary
Milan Gada is a technical product leader with 8+ years focused on ML-driven recommendations, video, IoT and edge-cloud platforms, currently shaping recommendation systems infrastructure at Meta for Feed and Reels. He has a deep background building Azure video and media AI products at Microsoft—leading teams that launched Live Video Analytics and Video Indexer and driving cross-team strategy with Cognitive Services, IoT, and Edge Compute. Milan blends hands-on technical program management with customer-facing strategy, routinely translating enterprise customer needs into scalable AI/edge architectures and certification-ready cloud services. Known for coaching product teams and coordinating multi-disciplinary partners, he balances product vision with operational rigor for high-scale ML freshness, reliability, and retrieval/ranking systems. Based in Redmond, he brings a rare combination of media-engineering roots (from Windows Media/PlayReady) and modern recommender systems expertise, enabling him to connect legacy content protection and video pipelines to next-gen AI-driven discovery.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi