I'm Roshan, Engineering Manager in Facebook working on Computer Vision. In my prior life, led various teams at Coursera and LinkedIn.
Sorry, I am not currently available for mentoring sessions.
Experience
Engineering Manager
Jan 2018 - current
\- Leading a few teams across Facebook AI, with a focus on Computer Vision - infrastructure (training and inference), people understanding (faces), data platforms (annotation to active labeling) and information retrieval (instance matching, manifold sampling)
\[@Scale 2019 - Organizer\] AI track
\[F8 2019 - Talk\] Scaling Visual Reasoning
\[O'Reilly AI Conference 2019 - Talk\] Building Facebook's Visual Cortex
Director Of Engineering
Coursera
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
\- Started by leading the university product team
\- Grew the team to launch our 2nd business line - online degrees (iMBA from UIUC)
\- Grew the team further to launch our 3rd business line - enterprise ($XXM in <18 months)
\- Finally led 2 out of the 4 engineering teams (i) growth - data products for personalization, SEO optimized content pages, payments & login conversion funnels (ii) infrastructure - data, backend, frontend on AWS
\- Also drove introduction of levels & rubric, performance management, manager apprenticeship program, compensation strategy, vendor & budget management for engineering
\[Strata 2016 - Talk\] Data applications and infrastructure at Coursera
\[KDD 2017 - Organizer\] Machine Learning for Education workshop
Engineering Manager
LinkedIn
Jan 2010 - Jan 2014
\- Started working on open-source infrastructure: distributed key-value store (Voldemort), streaming system (Kafka) and job scheduler (Azkaban)
\- Moved to help with data products: People you may know, Address book relevance, Recruiter search
\- Continued to work at the intersection of data and infrastructure: OLAP system, A/B testing analytics (XLNT), feed ingestion engine (Zeno), forecasting platform, call-graph monitoring
\- Finally led the news feed (FollowFeed) and social gestures platform team
\- Also helped with engineering-wide architecture review and maintaining branding micro-sites
\[ICDE 2012 - Paper\] Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn
\[FAST 2012 - Paper/Talk\] Serving Large-scale Batch Computed Data with Project Voldemort
\[VLDB 2012 - Paper\] Avatara: OLAP for Web-scale Analytics Products
\[SIGMOD 2013 - Paper/Talk\] The Big Data Ecosystem at LinkedIn
\[SIGMETRICS 2013 - Paper\] Root cause detection in a Service-Oriented Architecture
\[CIKM 2014 - Paper\] Hotspot Detection in a Service-Oriented Architecture
