Shubham Jha
Software Engineer at Instagram
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShubham Jha is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, high-availability systems and machine learning infrastructure, currently at Instagram after recent roles at AWS and Microsoft. He combines a rigorous academic background (MS in CS from NYU Courant, 3.94 GPA) with hands-on production experience shipping billing and model-access systems for Amazon Bedrock and distributed notification platforms that handled hundreds of millions of events per day. His work spans ML research and applied engineering—from deep RL for knowledge graph generation and GPU-parallelized programs to clinical deep-learning tools for ophthalmology—demonstrating an ability to move novel models into production. Colleagues rely on him for Kafka expertise and scalable system design, while he brings curiosity beyond code in areas like mental health, education, and automotive technology. Notably, he pairs research-level thinking with pragmatic product impact, evidenced by measurable feature growth (30x notification scenario increase) and cross-team platform ownership.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.94, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.94 at New York UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
gymnasium8
reinforcement-learning7
python7
q-learning6
deep-learning6
deep-reinforcement-learning5
notification1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shubhamjha97/soft_prompt_benchmark
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
shubhamjha97/reading-list
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes in 5 months
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