# Sumit Shyamsukha

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

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

sumitshyamsukha.com

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech lead on the WhatsApp Business Integrity team.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area
Worked on the Home Location (fka: GeoAPI) team, focusing on Home Location Integrity & Location Signals in Ranking. Built systems to detect location spoofing, compute user-business affinity and recommend local businesses to users. Full stack, data, and applied machine learning using Python, Hack (PHP), React, and SQL.

### Course Instructor @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Course instructor for CIS 192: a course on Python programming open to undergraduate and graduate students across all years and schools at Penn. Developed course materials, managed 3 TAs, and taught a class of ~25 people. Topics covered include Python language fundamentals, building web apps with Flask/Django, applied machine learning and deep learning using scikit-learn, tensorflow, and keras.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
CIS 545 - Big Data Analytics (Spring 2018)
NETS 212 - Scalable and Cloud Computing (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
CIS 121 - Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
CIS 110 - Introduction to Computer Programming (Spring 2016)

### Project Manager @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Philadelphia Area
CIS 573 - Graduate Software Engineering (Fall 2017) (Head Project Manager)
CIS 350 - Software Engineering (Spring 2017)

### Software Engineer @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Worked on PennCourseReview. Used Django on the backend and CoffeeScript on the frontend.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Product Infrastructure on the Core App Data Frameworks Team
Worked on GraphQL (http://graphql.org/) mutations infrastructure: wrote a new API to define mutations on iOS with support for optimistic and dependent mutations, and having existing iOS mutations go through the  GraphServices infrastructure. Wrote Objective-C, C++, JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Python.

### Student Expert in Residence @ The Wharton School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
One of five undergraduates serving as Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship's Experts in Residence focused on Software Engineering and Product. Advise technical cofounders on choice of tech stack and software architecture decisions.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wealthfront Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Added functionality for detecting substantially identical instruments, enabling the company to transition to using lower cost ETFs which resulted in cost savings for Wealthfront users. Wrote Java, Scala, and Ruby on Rails.

### Open Source Contributor @ AGI (Analytical Graphics, Inc.)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Worked on CesiumJS - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps. Built a schematic 3D tileset validator using Node, Express, and WebGL for the 3D Tiles project used for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Veea Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Worked on the Backend team. Built a search platform, a dashboard, and internal APIs for the Veea app platform. Used the Java Play framework, Scala, Akka, Apache Kafka, and ElasticSearch.


## Education
### BSE and MSE in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata
Jan 2000 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22