Likhit Dharmapuri

Experience

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  Microsoft

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Software Engineer Internship

  As an intern in the Bing query understanding team, I helped scale internal search query classifier testing and shipping pipelines. I decreased the time taken to run validations on new trained models by identifying common dependencies and caching such results. Technologies used: C#, t-SQL, ASP.Net, Scope (similar to Hadoop Pig).

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  Microsoft

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2017

  Software Engineer 2

  As a software engineer in the Bing team I work on various projects such as search results ranking, webpage scraping, entity extraction, Android app development, and web development.My last project here involved creation of a voice assistant service for partner phone manufacturers to integrate into their products. I was responsible for creating the technical specifications in communication with the partner engineering teams.I also have a years’ worth of mentorship experience with junior software engineers. Technologies used: Android, C#, JavaScript, HTML, Scope (similar to Hadoop Pig), Java. Show less

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  Google

  May 2018 - Aug 2018

  Software Engineer Internship

  As an intern, I worked in the Datahub Team in the Google Ads department. The team provided employees the ability to search various resources such as databases, scripts, etc. I created a framework that allowed the addition of custom search features, building ranking algorithms using those features, and measurement of search quality gains due to the custom ranker. This helped decrease development time of new rankers from multiple weeks to under 4 days.As proof of concept, I also implemented a new ranker using the framework that improved search quality on top queries by 15%. Technologies used: C++, Flume (Google internal MapReduce), Google Spanner DB, Borg (like Kubernetes). Show less

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  Google

  Aug 2019 - now

  Software Engineer

  As a software engineer, worked on a data processing platform that allows major Google products like Google Photos, GPay, Gmail, and Google Map to process user data in a policy and privacy compliant way.