Rakshita Nagalla
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRakshita Nagalla is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building production ML systems across large consumer platforms, currently applying ranking and recommendation expertise at Pinterest after leading feed-ranking work at LinkedIn. Trained as an electrical engineer with an M.S. in Data Science from Columbia, she blends strong foundations in time series, Bayesian methods, NLP, and deep learning to tackle high-impact problems in advertising, infrastructure forecasting, and public content monetization. Her background includes driving capacity-planning forecasting at Facebook and real-time wind power forecasting at GE, demonstrating a knack for turning complex, noisy signals into robust, operational models. Comfortable in Python, R, and SQL, she also contributes to interdisciplinary research and civic projects—building anomaly-detection tools for voter registration monitoring—showing a commitment to responsible, societally useful ML.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadM.S in Data Science Data Science, M.S in Data Science Data Science at Columbia University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
kmeans6
tidyverse5
text-mining5
unsupervised-learning4
tidy4
clustering4
python3
r3
mining3
natural-language-processing3
scikit-learn2
machine-learning2
statistics2
data-manipulation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rakshita95/exchange-rate-forecasting-bayesian
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rakshita95/Visualizing-Cryptocurriencies
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
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