Dharak Kharod
Member Of Technical Staff, Model Efficiency at Cohere
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDharak Kharod is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance infrastructure for large-scale systems, currently focused on distributed GPU training performance for Ads ranking models at Meta. He spent much of his career at Uber across multiple engineering levels, contributing to production systems at scale. Dharak combines strong academic credentials—a master’s in computer science (9.33/10) and a top-tier bachelor’s GPA—with hands-on expertise in ML infrastructure and performance optimization. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to squeezing efficiency out of distributed training pipelines and production workloads. An engineer comfortable at the intersection of research-quality systems and production constraints, he often surfaces non-obvious bottlenecks that materially improve model training throughput.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Faculty of Technology, Maharaja Sayajirao University, VadodaraUtkarsh Vidyalaya - VadodaaraMaster’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (53)
sql-query10
python10
big-data10
machine-learning10
hadoop10
java10
numpy10
hive10
deep-learning10
gpu10
sql10
autograd10
neural-network10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dharakk/presto
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:28 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
jdbchbasebigdatabig-datatrino
dharakk/incubator-pinot
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Apache Pinot (Incubating) - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
incubatingrealtimecommonsolaphazelcast
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