Vishal Talwar
Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Talwar is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building large-scale data processing, ML-driven products, and developer-facing frameworks across Google and DeepMind. He combines a polyglot engineering background (Python, C/C++, Java, web) with deep expertise in MapReduce/Hadoop pipelines, computer vision, embedding-based search, and scalable object detection for satellite imagery. As a former CTO and hardware maker, he also designs PCBs, firmware, and physical products, bringing uncommon full-stack hardware-to-cloud fluency to software projects. Known for rapid prototyping of ambiguous problems and mentoring C++/Python readability, he has led cross-functional efforts that turned massive, heterogeneous cultural and geospatial datasets into production ML pipelines and reverse-image search interfaces. Based in the UK, he blends research-adjacent innovation with pragmatic product delivery and hands-on manufacturing skills.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, French
Github Skills (69)
photon10
argon10
data-wrangling10
wikidata10
crossword10
data-science10
wikimedia10
java10
data-analysis10
openrefine10
particle10
reconciliation10
journalism10
python9
data-manipulation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
indraastra/nn-ocr
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
indraastra/designs
Oct 2012 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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