Sundar Lakshmanan
Senior Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Tokyo, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSundar Lakshmanan is a senior software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in information extraction, search, NLP and data engineering, having built large-scale pipelines at Facebook, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo!. He has deep expertise in multilingual search (including Arabic, Japanese, Hindi and several South Indian languages), focused web crawlers, and production ML workflows that blend deep learning with crowd validation for high-quality results. Sundar has shipped end-to-end systems for shopping, travel, local and jobs domains—owning feed ingestion, extraction, annotation and optimization for success metrics across international markets. He combines startup grit (founder/CEO of Ideophone) with enterprise impact (adding over a billion dollars to a lead funnel at Facebook), and mentors vendor teams while leading engineering squads. Based in Tokyo and active in Wikimedia projects since 2004, he brings a rare mix of product instincts, language-aware engineering and practical research-driven solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreVivekananda Matriculation SchoolBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Madurai Kamaraj UniversityTVS Lakshmi Matriculation Higer Secondary SchoolThe University of Arizona
Tamil, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Japanese
Stackoverflow
53reputation
19kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (30)
normalization10
wordnet10
phonetics10
thai10
language-processing9
lemmatization9
text-processing9
computational-linguistics9
dependency-parsing9
sentence-similarity9
part-of-speech-tagger9
turkish9
nlp8
python8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oligoglot/ph
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Relative distribution of p and h in word initial position
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
oligoglot/theedhum-nandrum
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:86 commits, 5 pushes in 9 months
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