Vinodh Kumar Sunkara

Engineering Manager at Meta, Ads ML . EB-1A Recipient

Sunnyvale, California, United States

About

I'm currently working as an Engineering Manager at Facebook, Menlo Park, California in Ads team. We build ML/AI based optimization solutions for Ads placement. Prior to this, I worked at Microsoft contributing to Bing Search Index generation. My experience spans across various Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications including Search, Recommendations, Ranking/Retrieval, Integrity, Ads Ranking etc. along with end to end software building involving Distributed Systems, Backend and Client components etc. Education: I did my B.Tech in CSE from IIT Kharagpur and Masters in Computer Science at GeorgiaTech, Interactive Intelligence (ML/AI) specialization. I did my MBA at Berkeley Haas School of business.

Experience

  • Meta (Menlo Park, California, United States)
    • Engineering Manager
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Engineering Manager with 12 years of industry experience in Machine Learning and Recommendations. Hands-on leader at Meta driving LLM-powered Ads Recommendations and quantization techniques to enhance generalizability and performance across end-to-end ads ranking and retrieval, with prior experience in search ranking, feed ranking and integrity, and ads quality and supply areas.

    • Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning
      Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning
      Jan 2021 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Machine Learning solutions to reduce the bad experiences on Facebook NewsFeed related to hate speech, anger, politics and social content, graphical violence, etc.

  • Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Worked as a Software Engineer on Web Data and Intelligence Platform of Microsoft Bing. The components I worked on include Bing web index generation, large-scale data injection, distributed file store that hosts Bing index data. I owned Data Injection Service which runs in a distributed computing system to tag billions of URLs in Bing index with mobile friendliness signal, to improve user experience when customers use Bing on mobile devices.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo
    Jul 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Have my contributions to the Yahoo Search front end, been part of many major projects involving different partners with Yahoo. Implemented features for Yahoo Search that millions of people use on daily basis, worked on many projects that have critical revenue impact. Played an important role in designing features for yahoo search on Mozilla as part of Yahoo-Mozilla five-year partnership signed [1]. Worked as a prime developer in integrating Google ad sense and web results on yahoo search page as part of Yahoo-Google three-year partnership signed [2]. Worked as a lead developer on latest redesign work for yahoo search on Mozilla that has got great press feedback [3]. A high performer at Yahoo for most of the quarters. Promoted to Senior software engineer from Software engineer in a few month span after joining yahoo search in 2015. [1] http://tinyurl.com/kzgyq45 [2] http://tinyurl.com/zyu6jya [3] http://tinyurl.com/noxfo8r

  • B.Tech Project at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Jan 2012 - Jul 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Title : Design of Energy Efficient Communication Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks Organization : Department of Computer Science, IIT Kharagpur Description : Designed a protocol Assisted-Leach on top of LEACH. Published the algorithm at ICTTA 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Summer Intern at Berlin Institute of Technology (Technische Universität Berlin)
    May 2012 - Jul 2012 · 3 mos

    Title : TWIST Actu - A RESTful Testbed Platform for Remote Experimentation with Home Automation Sensors and Actuators Organization : Telecommunication Networks Group, TU Berlin, Germany. It has been partially supported by EIT ICT Labs, as part of the activity 12149, “From WSN Testbeds to CPS Testbeds” Description : The TWIST Actu platform is aimed at extending the capabilities of the TWIST testbed at TU Berlin with support for remote experiments involving building automation sensors and actuators, as part of a wider effort to migrate the testbed from a pure sensor network testbed to one that can also effectively host more challenging cyber-physical system experimental scenarios. We made RESTful remote experimentation API that supports a “Testbed as a Service” model of use of the testbed resources.