# Vanish Talwar > Software Engineer at Moloco | ex-Meta Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vanish • 15+ years of industry experience. • Tech Lead experience in ML monitoring, debugging tools, scalable monitoring and analytics, resource management & orchestration, automation, power management, SLA management. • Technical leadership and innovation with broad impact in industry and academia - 40 granted US patents; 50+ publications in top conferences and journals. • Self-motivated, creative, adaptive, fast learner, productive, and a team player. Interests: ML systems (monitoring, debugging, scheduling, orchestration), Real-time stream processing, Cloud systems, Large scale distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Moloco Jan 2023 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States Leading ML Monitoring efforts for Moloco's advanced AI/ML models that power programmatic advertising at scale. ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, CA - Technical lead for ML Monitoring project to develop tools for end-to-end model diagnosability and training debugging applied for Meta's AI models and training pipelines to debug feature, QPS, and model issues. - Technical lead for Efficient Investigations project to develop automated tools for runbooks used for debugging production issues across Meta. - Technical Lead and founder for Dataflow Tracing project to create tools for tracing data flows and its analysis to debug issues such as data loss and latency for large scale dataflow systems. - Technical Lead for the service management layer of Meta's stream processing system. ### Technical Director @ PernixData (acquired by Nutanix) Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA • Storage startup backed by LightSpeed, Menlo, Kleiner Perkins • Responsible for end-to-end design and implementation of the entire distributed monitoring and analytics stack for a scale out storage array. • Additional contributions made to PernixData FVP product (a distributed scale-out server-side cache). ### Technology Advisor @ TeevrData Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA • Early stage Industrial IoT startup that provides software to manage industrial sensor data • Providing technology consulting and advice ### Principal Research Scientist and Research Manager @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA • Worked on and led projects on management of big data systems • Topics include scalable monitoring for troubleshooting multi-stage big data systems, resource management for big data applications on CPU-GPU systems, cluster scheduling improvements for big data workloads • Technical lead and managed a team of researchers and interns ### Senior Research Scientist/Research Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Jan 2002 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA • Worked on several projects in the areas of scalable and coordinated data center management, large scale service deployment and adaptation, model-driven cluster resource management • Specific topics include coordinated power­-virtualization management, large-scale monitoring and analysis systems, automated deployment and configuration management, adaptation systems, modeling and resource management of virtual desktop infrastructures • Received Hewlett-Packard Labs award for “most impact by a young researcher” ### Software Engineer @ HP Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | Palo Alto, CA • Worked on software development for Linux handhelds/PDAs and entertainment appliances • Topics include enhancements to the Linux kernel and file system, tools and techniques for performance tuning and memory footprint reduction measurements for Embedded Java Virtual Machine/ Embedded Linux stack for handheld devices. ### Research and Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 • Worked on multimedia security where I designed scalable and flexible solutions for securing control messages (e.g for user authentication, mobility state, resource reservation) for distributed multimedia services in wide-area Internet and pervasive systems. • Teaching assistant for Distributed systems and Java programming courses • Awarded David J Kuck Outstanding Masters Thesis award from Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. ### Summer Research Intern @ IBM Almaden Research Center Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | San Jose, CA • Worked on replicated file systems built over IBM TSpaces communication middleware • Design provided platform independence and support for disconnected clients and heterogeneous file systems. ## Education ### PhD in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### MS in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vanishtalwar --- Source: https://flows.cv/vanish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vanish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11