Summary
Sadat Anwar is a seasoned engineering and data science leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale search, recommendation, and moderation systems, currently managing OLX’s Recommendations Platform & Moderation. He blends hands-on software engineering (Java, Scala, Python) with product-minded ML expertise to ship high-throughput services—his teams have operated recommendation and search surfaces handling hundreds of millions to over a billion requests per day. Known for instilling experimentation culture and modernising legacy stacks, he has driven hundreds of A/B tests and measurable lifts in conversion via ranking and LTR initiatives. A people-first manager, he focuses on coaching teams to deliver elegant solutions to complex personalization and moderation problems. His background spans autonomous dispatch simulation, production ML pipelines, and a master’s in embedded systems, reflecting a practical cross-domain curiosity that surfaces in both systems and models.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
High School Diploma Science and Math, High School Diploma Science and Math at Loyola High School, Patna
Indian International School
Master's Degree Embedded Systems, Master's Degree Embedded Systems at University of Stuttgart
English, Hindi, German