# Ravindra Surya Lanka

> Software Engineer at Acryl Data

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ravindra

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Acryl Data
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, CA

### Principal Software Engineer @ eBay
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
Engineer, Search Backend - Query Serving Stack.

### Member of Technical Staff @ eBay
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Jose

### Software Design Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA
Currently adding new features to NDIS framework that will get shipped with Win7!

### Tech Lead @ Yahoo R&D India
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Worked mostly in the area of unstructured text extraction, which include developing a heuristic based rule engine for attribute extraction from text/hypertext based documents, techniques for automated extraction such as site-level learning and wrapper induction.

### Software Engineer (R&D) @ Pivotal India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Owned the backend, a rule engine, of Assisted Selling product that would enable creation and maintenance of large e-commerce based portals.

### Associate (Software) @ Strand Genomics India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003
I had the joy of developing Sarani, an Oligo(nucleotide) design software, which invloved developing several interesting string matching and processing algorithms on two very large sets of strings. Most pleasurable part of my work here was design and implementation of a fast local alignment search tool called SLAST. I also swam across and dived deep into several aspects of C++ during my time here.

### Software Engineer @ Intel India Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2001
Was fixing bugs in Intel 810 and 815 Graphics Chipset Device Drivers


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
University of Utah

### M.E. System Science and Automation in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

### BE in Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10