Hrishikesh Paranjape
About
I am a software engineer and a computer science researcher. I was born and raised in Pune, a culturally rich town in Maharashtra, India. I moved to the US in 2010 for grad school. In my leisure time, I play Tennis and make robots using Arduino. At work, I build reliable, scalable backend systems and ML-driven features at Instagram. My work spans production services, data-driven product engineering, and reducing operational costs at scale.
Highlights
- Software Engineer at Instagram - focused on operational efficiency and online well-being
- Computer Science researcher - 30+ academic citations
- Active technical community contributor - Top 1 percentile Stack Overflow contributor reaching over 1.6M users.
Work Experience
Instagram - Software Engineer Product & infrastructure engineer
PayPal - Software Engineer Infrastructure engineer
Lyft - Software Engineer Product & infrastructure engineer
Blurb - Software Engineer Product engineer
Texture(Acquired by Apple) - Software Engineer Full Stack engineer
Research & Publications
- Classifying Twitter Data with Naive Bayes Classifier — IEEE conference. A practical exploration of text classification approaches and feature engineering for short-form social content. (30+ citations)
Community contributions
- Judge — Codie Awards & multiple hackathons
- Active in open-source, mentoring, and conference reviewing
Contact
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