Tanmay Sachan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolTanmay Sachan is a Search R&D engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale search and recommendation systems, currently driving search innovation at Exa in Singapore. He has held applied ML roles at LinkedIn and Apple, shipping personalization and multimodal geotagging solutions and scaling agentic systems in production. A hands-on engineer and open-source contributor, he made substantive low-level improvements to Xapian’s double-precision serialization and added OmegaScript functionality, reflecting comfort across systems and ML stacks. He writes about technical and miscellaneous topics on his blog, and combines research-minded experimentation with production-focused engineering to make web-scale search “really, really good.”
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Delhi Public School (DPS)
English, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
deserialization10
floating-point10
serializable10
c-language10
float3210
serializer10
cprogramming-language10
xapian10
serialization10
data-structure9
data-structures9
endianness7
randomization7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xapian/xapian
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Mirror of the Xapian repository. You're welcome to open pull requests on github (they'll just get merged indirectly).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 58 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tanmay primarily focused on enhancing the `serialise-double.cc` file within the Xapian core library. Their work involved improving double-precision floating-point serialization and deserialization, including adding support for non-IEEE systems. Further contributions included code refactoring, optimization for big-endian systems, and adjustments to improve code styling and correctness, specifically in the handling of double-precision values. The user also added header files and implemented new commands to support random number generation within the OmegaScript application.
mergedpull-requestsxapianwelcome
tanmaysachan/tanmaysachan.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2025
My personal website
Contributions:9 PRs, 160 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
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