Shishir Prasad
Director Of Machine Learning at Instacart
San Ramon, California, United States
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Top SchoolShishir Prasad is a Director of Machine Learning with 13 years of experience building data products at the intersection of ML and distributed systems, currently leading ML across Instacart’s end-to-end shopping experience. He has led teams responsible for Catalog & Knowledge Graph, Search, Discovery, Home/Feed, and Recommendations, consolidating fragmented models into a cohesive AI core that drives scalable personalization and merchandising. His work spans classical ML, computer vision, and LLM-native systems for semantic retrieval, multi-objective ranking, and conversational AI. Prior roles include senior engineering and product-matching systems work at Walmart eCommerce and platform engineering at D. E. Shaw, giving him deep production experience in real-time pipelines and large-scale entity matching. Known for turning research-grade techniques (LSH, MinHash, Phash, XGBoost, VW) into robust production services, he combines technical breadth with a product-focus on customer value. Based in San Ramon, CA, he pairs academic foundations from UW–Madison with a knack for consolidating complex ML stacks into durable, business-driving systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science(MS) Computer and Information Sciences, Masters of Science(MS) Computer and Information Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonAISSCE Non-Medical Stream, AISSCE Non-Medical Stream at D.A.V JhinkpaniBachelor of Technology ( B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology ( B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
gluon8
machine-learning8
python8
java6
opencsv6
csv6
cql6
cassandra6
business-intelligence6
amazon-elasticache6
scikit-learn6
data-science6
charts6
react5
typescript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
solitaryreaper/Instacart-Shopper
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
solitaryreaper/rule-generator
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 4 months
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