# Harsh Agarwal

> Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher | p13n | prev Ads

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/harshagarwal

ML Engineer / researcher working on Retrieval and Ranking for large scale profile X position matching and scoring for LLM powered interviews across different hiring domains. 

At Wayfair, I worked on training and productionizing large scale recommender systems for organic and Ads p13n. Also had a short stint working on pCTR & pCVR models for Ads bidding. 

While in school, I spent most of my time studying Machine Learning, Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems

Focus area: Ranking, Information Retrieval, NLP, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Bidding, & Distributed Systems

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Eightfold AI
Jan 2026 – Present | Santa Clara, CA
Mostly working on Retrieval and Ranking systems for profile x position matching and scoring for LLM powered interviews at scale. Sometimes, I also do full stack dev and work with distributed systems

### Machine Learning Researcher @ Wayfair
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Seattle, WA
Ads bidding and Ranking. We generated XXXM in Ads attributed revenue for the year ending 2025

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Wayfair
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, CA
Retrieval and Ranking for organic p13n (training and model serving)

### Course Assistant - CS 425 / ECE 428 @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Champaign, IL
Course Assistant for Distributed Systems

### Software Engineer Intern @ Wayfair
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Tech transitioning - PHP to Node.js + React 

GraphQL stitching for API federation with SQLAlchemy for data access

### Software Engineering Intern @ John Deere
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, IL
Semantic search using Hugging Face Transformers for BERT-based text vectorization

### Software Engineer Intern @ WorkInSync
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru
Monolith to microservice based data ingestion pipeline to improve response rate for downstream apps

### Course Assistant - MATH 257 @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course Assistant for Linear Algebra and Machine Learning

### Course Assistant - CS 124 @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | University of Illinois
Course Assistant for Intro to CS

### Dev ops engineering assistant @ Illixr
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Champaign County, IL
Contributed to ILLIXR – the first fully open-sourced Extended Reality (XR) system and testbed 

1. Continuous Integration/Development framework on Jenkins to onboard and support ILLIXR onto Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

2. Advanced Graphical Testing on ILLIXR using Qemu and Virgl

Advisor - prof Sarita Adve

### Co-Founder @ Give Back To Earth
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Kolkata
Pan India organization  focused on providing organic compost at subsidised rates. Impacted > 500K farmers nationwide. 

We were recognized by the Govt of India and State of West Bengal.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School Diploma
St. Xavier's Collegiate School - India


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harshagl2002
- GitHub: https://github.com/harshagl2002

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Source: https://flows.cv/harshagarwal
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harshagarwal/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11