Summary
Raghav J is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems and recommender platforms, currently at Pinterest. He blends deep learning research roots—including state-of-the-art NER and cross-lingual emotion analysis—with hands-on cloud-native engineering using GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Go, and Python. His work at THE YES, acquired by Pinterest, highlights expertise in scaling personalized commerce recommendations and maintaining cluster infrastructure. A Columbia CS master’s graduate, he has bridged academia and industry by shipping a collaborative ML model-sharing platform and assisting graduate ML courses. Comfortable across research, infra, and product, he often translates experimental models into robust, deployable services. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of applied NLP research wins and pragmatic systems engineering at scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Hindi, English, Punjabi