Sundar Lakshmanan
Senior Software Engineer at Tamarind Valley Collective
Tokyo, India
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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.
14 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 (13)
natural-language-processing9
python9
algorithm6
nlp6
spellchecking6
react2
cjk2
arabic2
transliteration2
kotlin1
javascript1
slug1
android1
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/hacks
Jun 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
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