About

Aditya Kalro is a Senior Engineering Leader at Facebook, currently serving as the Engineering Manager on the AI Infra team. With over 10 years of experience in Advertising, he has a deep understanding of Video and Rich Media Ads. Aditya has bootstrapped and grown engineering teams in the Bay Area, with a focus on infra and front-end engineering. At Facebook, Aditya is responsible for building FB's internal tooling for Machine Learning, going across Feature Engineering, Data Processing, Training, and Inference. He leads the AI Infra Services and Platform team, which builds Infra and services to make ML as a process easier for engineers at Facebook, including higher-level abstractions to tie all of these pieces together. FBlearner, created by Aditya's team, is used by teams across Facebook to facilitate the training and publishing of ML models, including Ads, Feed, Instagram, and Integrity. Before joining Facebook, Aditya worked at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineering Manager, where he was responsible for Windows 8 Advertising, creating interactive ad experiences using the native capabilities of Windows 8 devices and apps. He also worked on the creation process to generate ads and the advertising SDK for the Win8 using HTML5. Aditya contributed to mobile rich media standards MRAID (IAB) and ORMMA. He also worked on the Hotmail AdBar, client-side execution of a dynamic ad that shows the top deals and products from Bing to a user depending on behavioral targeting. Aditya managed a 20-member team across locations. Aditya's Tech Stack includes Senior Software Engineer, ML, infra, AI, Frontend, Javascript, Mobile, UI, Web, and Software Engineer. With 18.53 years of relevant experience, Aditya is a seasoned professional who has demonstrated his expertise in engineering leadership, machine learning, and advertising.