# Siddharth Ramakrishnan > Tech Lead, ML/AI Systems Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/siddharthramakrishnan ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Present • Led a team of ML & Software Engineers to create scalable ML/AI solutions ensuring compliance with Meta's Ad policies. • Pioneered LLM-based solutions, knowledge distillation, and context engineering to enhance business impact. • Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, DS, DE, Legal, Ops & Policy to drive innovation in the ads integrity space at Meta. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Google Health - Tech Lead - Design and develop solutions to improve patient health outcomes. Lead cross team collaboration across various PAs like Search, Maps, Assistant, etc. to solve complex privacy, legal, security and regulatory problems in the consumer health space. - Survey Lift - Tech Lead - Developed and scaled big data processing and analytics pipelines, processing over 1TB of data a day to generate reports for ad effectiveness 10 times faster than the existing pipeline, while growing at 400% yoy. - Developed data pipelines to measure effectiveness of ad campaigns on 4+ internal ad serving platforms, measuring over $1B+ of revenue - Designed and conducted experiments to evaluate survey quality, and improved them by 20% on YouTube and other survey platforms - Technical lead for a team of 20 engineers over 3 Google offices, leading engineering and modeling projects to compute ad effectiveness. ### SDE II @ Microsoft Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 - Remote Desktop - IC - Designed and developed a new transport protocol, congestion control algorithms and a lossy and non-lossy mode for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that improved network performance by 4 times, and - Reduced jitter on wireless networks and enable smooth audio/video playback - Improved scalability and number of RDP users per server by 25% - Awarded patent that reduced RDP connection time by upto 40% - Bing Apps - IC - Developed and maintained a service deployed on Windows Azure to process requests from Windows Apps ### Software Developer @ Webaroo Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Minnesota ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/siramakrishnan --- Source: https://flows.cv/siddharthramakrishnan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/siddharthramakrishnan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12