Vaibhav Kumar
Member Of Technical Staff at Handshake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Kumar is a research-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working as a Research Engineer at Meta after a senior applied scientist role on Alexa AI at Amazon AGI. He specializes in information retrieval, conversational search, and NLP, combining deep learning research from his CMU Language Technologies master's with applied systems experience. His background includes a dual-degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from IIIT Hyderabad, research on computational journalism and multilingual translation, and hands-on algorithmic work across Python, C++ and Go. He co-founded a startup (Ping!) and contributes practical algorithm implementations on GitHub, reflecting a blend of production engineering and academic rigor. Based in Seattle, he bridges research and product deployment, focusing on bringing conversational search advances into scalable AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech in Computer Science and MS in Computational Linguistics by Research, B.Tech in Computer Science and MS in Computational Linguistics by Research at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Master of Language Technology, Computer Science, Master of Language Technology, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
floyd-warshall10
data-structures10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
data-structure10
topological-sort10
bellman-ford10
go9
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jainaman224/Algo_Ds_Notes
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
A comprehensive resource for learning and implementing algorithms and data structures. This repository includes detailed notes, complexity analysis, and code examples in C++, Java, Python, and more. Ideal for students, professionals, and those preparing for coding interviews.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vaibhav contributed implementations of various algorithms and data structures in Python, C++, and Go. These contributions include implementations of Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, and topological sort algorithms. Furthermore, the user optimized a Knapsack implementation in C++.
cppdata-structuredata-structuresjavapython
vaibhav4595/Clickbait_Detection
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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