Niharika Vallambatla
Software Engineer 2 at Coursera
Greater Hyderabad Area India
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Top SchoolNiharika Vallambatla is a backend-focused software engineer with about 3 years of hands-on experience building search and autocomplete systems for high-traffic consumer platforms. At Nykaa she improved search relevance and recall through features like vector search, entity detection, and query relaxation, and owned a diversity re-ranking module that balanced relevance with varied results. She’s now at Coursera, continuing to scale learning infrastructure while collaborating across product and data teams to deliver measurable UX improvements. A product-minded engineer, she also built operational tooling such as a Redis-based config store to enable rapid, low-risk tuning of search behavior in production. Trained at IIIT Allahabad, she combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and a curiosity for new technologies applied to real-world problems. Colleagues describe her as a dependable team player who moves quickly from prototypes to production-grade services.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
English, Hindi, Telugu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
packaging10
python9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
package-manager8
python-packaging8
stopwords6
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
python-poetry/poetry
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Python packaging and dependency management made easy
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