Varad Pathak
Research Scientist at Netflix
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarad Pathak is a research scientist in Menlo Park with 13 years of experience applying machine learning and data-driven methods to large-scale recommendation systems. He has led and shipped recommender teams and research at Tinder, refined multi-stakeholder recommendation models at Twitter’s Cortex Applied Research group, and now drives applied ML research at Netflix. His background blends an MS in Computer Science from USC with early engineering across banking, logistics and e-commerce, giving him a practical grounding in production data pipelines and scalable model deployment. Known for turning research insights into product-facing systems, he focuses on recommendation tradeoffs and stakeholder-aware objectives—an area he has repeatedly operationalized at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaB.E., Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, B.E., Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering at Government College of Engineering Aurangabad
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
ios6
uitableview6
database6
swift6
Github contributions (5)
VaradPathak/DynamicLDA
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
VaradPathak/TopicModeling
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 28 days
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