anubhavmalhotra / README.md
Anubhav Malhotra
- engineer @ meta
- builder
- san francisco bay area
Engineer at heart, with a passion for collaborating with people to bring simplified solutions to life. Currently engineering in Meta Ads: agentic platforms, ML efficiency and large-scale systems.
Work
| Where | What | When |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | Engineering lead, Meta Ads. Bootstrapped first agentic solution within org. Incorporated novel techniques in training models to make them privacy friendly without impacting business performance. | 2020 → now |
| Apple | Spotlight search. On-device, privacy-first ML ranking for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. | 2014 → 2020 |
| Microsoft | Kinect for Xbox One. ML pipeline for training data, as an R&D intern. | 2013 |
| Adobe | Licensing. Creative Cloud redemption and point-of-sale activation infrastructure. | 2010 → 2012 |
Highlights
- New focus: increase efficiency of HBM for improving GPU utilization.
- Bootstrapped the agentic platform behind Meta Ads' first autonomous business impact: $$M in its first four months.
- $$$M in incremental revenue from privacy-friendly ML in regulated ad verticals, and $$$M+ in efficiency wins in a single year.
- Led Spotlight's on-device, privacy-first ML ranking pipeline at Apple for six years, featured at WWDC four years running.
- Eight granted US patents on search ranking and on-device search.
- M.S. Computer Science, Brown University.
Languages
- English 100.0%
| Language | Status |
|---|---|
| English | Current. All new code is written in it. |
| Python | In maintenance. Adopted twice, which is a record. |
| C, C++, Objective-C | Long-term support. Most of the mileage. |
| Java, JavaScript, PHP | Deprecated. |
| Visual Basic | End of life. Where it started, in 2000. |
Talking to machines since 2000. Over that time the machines got a lot smarter. No comparable claim is made for the other side of the conversation.
Contact
$ open https://linkedin.com/in/anubhavmalhotra $ open https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra $ open https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cV0RaFcAAAAJ $ open https://x.com/erfahrung $ mail anubhav [dot] malhotra [dot] work [at] gmail [dot] com $ mcp https://anubhavmalhotra.com/mcp
License
Opinions are my own. Code is MIT unless noted.