Prathamesh Mahankal
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at DoorDash
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPrathamesh Mahankal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building production ML systems across recommendations, gaming, finance, and public health. He has delivered low-latency, scalable recommendation rankers at Amazon Prime Video that serve millions and eliminated redundancies saving $500k+ annually, and recently joined DoorDash to continue shipping high-impact ML solutions. His background spans end-to-end pipelines, real-time feature engineering, and orchestration using cloud services (AWS, Azure), with hands-on expertise in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Spark, and SQL. At Hi-Rez and IHME he applied causal inference and distributed processing to improve retention and accelerate research workflows, respectively, showing a knack for translating analytics into product and policy outcomes. Comfortable moving between research-grade models and operational constraints, he combines strong engineering rigor with product-minded experimentation. He describes his approach simply—“Machine learning or deep learning? None, I just keep learning”—which reflects a continual curiosity that fuels pragmatic, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Science/Studies, Master of Science - MS Information Science/Studies at University of WashingtonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
115reputation
4kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (14)
concatenation6
apache-spark6
pandas6
azure6
comparator6
lstm6
python6
numpy6
data-science6
ruby3
azure-storage2
storage2
microsoft-azure1
microsoft1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prathameshmahankal/Fake-News-Detection-Using-BERT
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
prathameshmahankal/Movie-Recommendation-System-Project
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.