Vimal Aravindashan is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems across ads, credit risk, analytics and information retrieval. Currently at Meta, he optimizes model efficiency and GPU capacity for recommendation systems that serve Facebook and Instagram, having previously improved compute/storage efficiency and data curation for Shops. He has led end-to-end risk engineering as Principal Engineer at ZestMoney—delivering a near real-time credit decisioning engine with 93% automation and cutting rule rollout time from weeks to days. As a former CTO and search-engine lead, he designed high-performance architectures (95th percentile API latencies ~50ms, image search at 100M scale) and introduced robust release and monitoring practices. Comfortable both mentoring teams and shipping hands-on code, he blends entrepreneurial product sense with production-grade engineering rigor. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs deep IR and systems experience with a knack for turning complex data requirements into pragmatic, observable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science and Engg., B.Tech Computer Science and Engg. at College of Engineering Trivandrum
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at University of Kerala
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