Viraj Bhalala
Software Engineer at Meta
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViraj Bhalala is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-intensive, distributed systems for healthcare, adtech, and cloud data platforms. He has led engineering of large-scale, real-time multi-tenant data sync infrastructure at Salesforce Data Cloud and now contributes to Ads backend systems at Meta. His background spans ML pipelines, semantic search using BERT before native ES support, Spark ETL, and production APIs—demonstrating a rare blend of ML and systems engineering. Based in the New York City area, he pairs an MCS in Data Science from UIUC with hands-on production experience at Optum and Salesforce. Colleagues rely on him for designing resilient, API-driven services that move petabytes of business data reliably and with low latency. An early project crawling and NLP-preprocessing web forums hints at a long-standing interest in applied data engineering and information retrieval.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Boomfield High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Minor in Business, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Minor in Business at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyMaster of Computer Science Data Science, Master of Computer Science Data Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (3)
linux1
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java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
virajbhalala/YelpD3jsDashboard
Apr 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
virajbhalala/YelpDataCapstone
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
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