Summary
Smarth Behl is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend, distributed systems, and machine learning infrastructure, currently focused on serving complex video and recommendation models at Meta in Mountain View. He has deep experience driving low-latency, cost-conscious engineering from his multi-year tenure at Microsoft improving PowerPoint Online collaboration and reliability, and earlier work designing robot fleet pathfinding and warehouse orchestration. Smarth blends hands-on systems engineering with ML infra, having contributed to recommendation and monetization pipelines for Reels and Facebook Shops. He’s comfortable across the stack—plumbing cross-service logic, building alerting frameworks, and optimizing model-serving infrastructure—to turn research models into production-grade systems. A BITS Pilani alumnus with a background in startups and developer community leadership, he brings both entrepreneurial initiative and large-scale product experience to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Punjabi, Hindi