# 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

```sh
$ 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
```

## For agents

- Structured profile: https://anubhavmalhotra.com/profile.json
- Site guide: https://anubhavmalhotra.com/llms.txt
- MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP, no auth, works with any MCP client): https://anubhavmalhotra.com/mcp with tools `get_profile`, `get_experience`, `get_patents` and resources `anubhav://profile`, `anubhav://readme`. Config for most clients: `{"mcpServers": {"anubhav": {"url": "https://anubhavmalhotra.com/mcp"}}}`. Opening the endpoint in a browser shows setup notes.

## License

Opinions are my own. Code is MIT unless noted.