Pinkesh Badjatiya is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML with a decade of experience building large-scale NLP and recommendation systems for products like Bing and Copilot. He has driven low-latency production deployments—from signal mining at web scale to model fine-tuning, distillation, quantization and pruning—delivering measurable engagement and coverage gains. Prior to Microsoft and Google, he conducted applied ML research at Adobe’s MDSR lab, producing multiple patents and papers in computer vision and reinforcement learning. Comfortable spanning research and engineering, he also contributes to open-source projects such as ListenBrainz where he improved backend data pipelines and scrapers. Based in Hyderabad, he combines rigorous academic training from IIIT Hyderabad with a knack for turning ambitious prototypes into highly optimized, web-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary School, Higher Secondary School at Aklank Public School
Master of Science by Research (MS by Research) Computer Science, Master of Science by Research (MS by Research) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Server for the ListenBrainz project, including the front-end (javascript/react) code that it serves and all of the data processing components that LB uses.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:154 commits, 19 PRs, 161 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pinkesh contributed to the ListenBrainz server by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to data export and Last.fm scraping. Their work included modifying Python code for listen storage and database querying, enhancing a JavaScript scraper for user data, and updating templates for user profile and export functionality. These changes involved modifying the back-end logic for data handling and user profile display.
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Pinkesh Badjatiya - Senior Software Engineer (AI ML) at Google