Roger Menezes
Senior Research Engineer at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Menezes is a Senior Research Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale machine learning, information retrieval, and recommendation systems at Netflix and other major tech firms. He brings deep expertise in Scala, Java, and Spark, and has shipped production work across tasks like named entity extraction, document segmentation, topic-sensitive PageRank, and one-class classification for web pages. His career spans foundational engineering roles at Yahoo!, Microsoft, Amazon, and BlackBerry, reflecting strong systems and product sensibilities. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs an IIT Bombay M.Tech. background with practical experience turning research ideas into scalable production pipelines. Quietly curious about lower-level work, he is exploring systems programming—an interest that complements his ML and distributed-systems focus. Colleagues would describe him as a research-minded engineer who bridges algorithmic innovation and robust, production-ready implementations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St Augustine's High School, VasaiIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
java
Github Skills (62)
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javascript10
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typescript10
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draft-js10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
urbanspr1nter/nesthing
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
A Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom emulator in TypeScript for web browsers!
Contributions:276 pushes in 5 months
emulatorbrowsernintendo-entertainment-systembrowsersjavascript
urbanspr1nter/caffeine
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:125 pushes, 47 comments, 100 issues in 1 year
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