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Nitish Natarajan

Summary

Accomplished Senior Software Engineer at Meta working on the WhatsApp Business Integrity team, driving impactful solutions that reduced harm on the platform while also enabling legitimate businesses to scale well. Proven ability to mentor other engineers and lead cross-team collaborations and innovate with cutting-edge LLM automations, showcasing strong problem-solving skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (PHP, PYTHON, SQL, JAVASCRIPT)

META
08.2022 - Current
  • Working on the WhatsApp Business Integrity team to prevent harm on the platform and ensure users have a safe, scam-free, and spam-free experience on the messaging platform.
  • Led the development of ML integrity classifiers to block 67% of scams at the time of onboarding on WhatsApp.
  • Designed and shipped measures to prevent scripting on the platform by 75%.
  • Built a simplified onboarding flow to onboard high-value businesses with less friction, resulting in $99M in expected additional revenue.
  • Developed and integrated LLM (Llama)-based automations for business reviews to save $2.1M per year.
  • Led pivotal cross-team collaboration with product and integrity teams across Meta to drive down scam harm

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CO-OP (JAVA)

HUBSPOT
08.2021 - 12.2021
  • Worked on improving the experience and adding new features for customers that are using the Conversations inbox, bots, and the Facebook Messenger integration features of HubSpot for scaling their businesses

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INTERN (JAVA, AWS)

AMAZON (AWS)
05.2021 - 07.2021
  • Created an MVP for bringing Asymmetric Key and Public Parameter support to AWS Parameter Store service
  • Developed new signing/verifying and encryption/decryption features for Parameter Store customers
  • Managed entire software development lifecycle- design, implementation, integration, testing, maintenance, analysis

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN (PYTHON, MYSQL, AZURE)

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Worked in Agile to create a mobile app-based ML solution that enables millions of customers to identify radio anomalies with over 90% accuracy and notify users, providing first responders with reliable communication
  • Spearheaded the productization of the system architecture through building and deploying APIs on Azure
  • Collaborated with product managers and executives to deliver important features to customers

DATA SCIENCE INTERN (PYTHON)

DEGIRUM
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • Led the development, and design of ImageNet based CNNs for edge devices using Pytorch and TensorFlow
  • Developed ensemble neural nets that were 15% more accurate and 30% more efficient that existing models
  • Analyzed ensemble methods through ML algorithms such as random forest and k-means clustering

Education

Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Computer Science, Minor in Business

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
01.2022

Skills

  • C
  • Java
  • Python
  • PHP
  • R
  • HTML/CSS
  • C
  • SQL
  • Neo4J
  • MongoDB
  • Flask
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Pytorch
  • TensorFlow
  • GraphQL

Timeline

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (PHP, PYTHON, SQL, JAVASCRIPT)

META
08.2022 - Current

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CO-OP (JAVA)

HUBSPOT
08.2021 - 12.2021

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INTERN (JAVA, AWS)

AMAZON (AWS)
05.2021 - 07.2021

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN (PYTHON, MYSQL, AZURE)

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
01.2020 - 12.2020

DATA SCIENCE INTERN (PYTHON)

DEGIRUM
06.2019 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Computer Science, Minor in Business

University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

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