Sekhar Mekala
Staff Applied Scientist at Meta
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSekhar Mekala is a Staff Applied Scientist based in Omaha with over a decade of experience building and scaling large distributed data and ML systems at companies like Meta and Amazon. He combines deep data engineering roots (DB2, Hadoop, Spark, EMR) with practical machine learning and deep learning production expertise (PyTorch, TensorFlow, PySpark) to drive product strategy and infrastructure decisions for systems serving billions of users. Sekhar has led end-to-end analytics and ML pipelines—from automatic data cleaning and data lakes to experimentation and model deployment—while mentoring cross-functional teams and advancing data best practices. Early-career work as a DB2 performance engineer and automation-focused DBA gives him a rare operational perspective on reliability and performance tuning at scale. He’s delivered measurable business impact (e.g., replacing manual claims processing with a 150-claims/minute image pipeline and boosting lead conversion rates) and consistently translates complex technical trade-offs into strategic recommendations. With an MS in Data Analytics and a hands-on mindset, he thrives at the intersection of production engineering, ML research, and measurable product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Data Analytics, A, Master of Science (MS), Data Analytics, A at City University of New YorkBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer science and Engineering, A, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer science and Engineering, A at Osmania University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (3)
python1
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
msekhar12/WebAnalytics
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
srajeev1/607Project3
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes in 5 days
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