Summary
Vrishabh Lakhani is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with a decade of experience building and optimizing large-scale models for ads ranking, delivery, and user representation. He has moved from research-driven roles at Meta—focusing on foundational AI applied research—to production ML systems at Coupang, blending deep modeling expertise with pragmatic engineering. His background spans search and recommendation pipelines, graph ML, and scaling data workflows in cloud environments, informed by a CS master’s from RIT. Known as a "data science nerd" on GitHub, he pairs research instincts (video captioning and Seq2Seq attention work) with hands-on systems work like Airflow/AWS pipeline migrations. Colleagues rely on him to turn state-of-the-art models into robust, performant services that operate at advertising scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor's of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor's of Engineering Computer Science at University of Mumbai
English, French, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi