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# Hitesh Mantrala on Tal

## Headline

Engineering leadership

## About

Jack of many technologies, Hacker and an entrepreneur\. Good with rapid prototyping and building new products and scaling them upto millions of api calls a second\. Extensive working knowledge of AWS products like EC2 \(used a fleet of 250 machines at peak\), S3, CDN, ElasticCache, Lambda, ELB, Route 53, VPC, AWS Docker containers, SQS etc\. Have worked with a wide variety of technologies ranging from low level in\-memory data engines to Python/NodeJS web apps\. Specialties: Deep learning, NLP, Web development, optimising machines and code to work at scale, Rapid prototyping

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at Pocket FM, May 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Senior Technical Lead at HungerBox, Aug 2019 \- May 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Technical Lead at RIVIGO, Apr 2019 \- Jun 2019 · 3 mos

Consulting at Entrepreneur First, Jan 2019 \- Apr 2019 · 4 mos

Deep learning Tech lead at Goibibo, Jan 2017 \- Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, Worked on the multilingual voice supported chatbot of Goibibo\. Used fast text word vectors for intent classification\. Built own pytorch models to understand the context of the user and respond with appropriate response to the user query\.

## Education

SLP

Msc\. Biological Sciences & B\.E\. Electronics and Instrumentation, Biology, Electronics, Software Development, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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