Vikas Kawadia
Head Of Engineering -- Rovo Chat & Teamwork Context Graph
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolVikas Kawadia is a hands-on engineering leader and AI/ML expert with 14+ years building large-scale, production deep learning systems for video recommendation, trust & safety, and personalization across companies like Meta and Nextdoor. He has led multi-team efforts that trained and served real-time models ranking billions of videos, grew FB Watch/Reels into major revenue-driving products, and architected ML infra and search/recommendation systems that materially increased engagement and growth. Earlier work as a senior scientist at BBN reflects a long-standing foundation in principled R&D—routing, disruption-tolerant networks, and novel Internet architectures—feeding into his practical approach to hard systems problems. Now at Atlassian he’s building knowledge and assistant products on top of a Teamwork Graph, blending deep research rigor with product-focused execution and a leadership style defined by high agency and cognitive empathy.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayMS+PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS+PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (19)
http-server10
client-server10
aiohttp10
async9
asynchronous9
python9
http9
http-client9
asyncio7
pyspark6
apache-spark6
unit-testing6
login-system2
okta1
authentication1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kawadia/estrangement
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 1 year 9 months
kawadia/pyspark.test
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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