# Hrishikesh M.

> Data Infra, Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hrishikeshm

Hrishikesh is an experienced software developer, who’s interests lie in data engineering and cloud computing. He has worked on AWS and GCP, and developed production-grade solutions using Apache Beam, Spark, Storm, and Kafka - among others. 

Throughout his professional experience, he has displayed a strong learning curve and penchant for problem-solving by moving seamlessly between technologies, languages and framework

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Data infra and tools to search, curate and manage datasets across data annotation lifecycle. 
Enable FAIR (Facebook Research), GenAI and Reality Labs to train and serve better AI.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rakuten Americas
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Data engineering for training and evaluation for visual/ semantic search ML models

### Big Data Engineer @ Rakuten Americas
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Teaching Assistant @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
TA for Data Processing in the Cloud.
Course largely covers MapReduce, Dataflow and BigQuery

### Data Engineering Intern @ SpringML, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Data wrangling and pipeline development (Java and Python, Apache Beam/ Dataflow)
Integration with and productionizing ML models.
Data warehousing using BigQuery. 
Search Engine development using Elasticsearch.
Orchestration and serverless programming (Cloud Functions, Cloud Run etc.)

### Tutoring Assistant @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Master Student @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer - Big Data @ Ugam
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore

### Associate Software Engineer - Big Data @ Ugam
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore
Data Engineer- Apache Big Data stack, AWS, Core Java. 
Full Stack Web Dev- Typescript(Angular 5), JavaScript/Jquery, Spring MVC.

### Software Designer @ Alstom
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore
Full Stack Web Development in ASP.NET MVC. 
UX development in Alstom's Proprietary signalling software.

### Software Development Intern @ Alstom
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore.
Interned as a software developer for ALSTOM. 
Worked on C#/ .NET with IronPython, to develop simulator software for existing legacy software.

### Freelance Writer for Tabloid- Bangalore Mirror. @ Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
Worked as a freelance journalist and was instrumental in starting a weekly special. It was known as "Teen Spirit".
Worked closely with editor and editorial team, and had created my own team for this purpose. Developed writing skills, and leadership skills.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of San Francisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Math and French.
National Public School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hrishikeshmula

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Last updated: 2026-03-22