Pooja Naik is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and AI-driven interaction capabilities at Meta, now leading voice and language AI for Smart Glasses. She combines deep systems expertise—having driven memcached and RPC infrastructure work including contributions to the widely used open-source mcrouter—with platformization of ML model storage, lifecycle and privacy-focused data processing. Her background spans end-to-end reliability improvements, fault-tolerant ML infra, and early ML feature work at Instagram, reflecting a blend of backend engineering and applied ML. Based in Menlo Park, she is a pragmatic leader who still dives into production code to remove subtle race conditions and improve observability for high-throughput services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pooja primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the Mcrouter memcached protocol router. Their contributions included fixing a race condition in Mcrouter instance creation by refactoring the reconfigure() method and logging retransmission ratios to stats. They also addressed a bug in FailoverWithExptimeRoute and implemented features like logging retransmission stats to ODS and adding an option to disable reconnections. This work directly impacted the core functionality and performance of the routing service.
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