About

Bharadwaj Ramachandran is a skilled Tech Lead and Staff Software Engineer at Thumbtack with a passion for distributed systems, search engines, machine learning, and economics. At Thumbtack, he works on refining ranking and relevance algorithms for the search team at the online marketplace for local services and skilled workers. Bharadwaj has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he built the foundations of a tool called PrivacyGrade to analyze how certain Android apps use personally identifiable information. For his senior thesis, he built the semantic layer of a smart campus, "Building a Privacy-Aware Stack for the Internet of Things." Bharadwaj has worked at Thumbtack for over five years, starting as a Software Engineering Intern and returning as a full-time Software Engineer in 2017. He has worked across the software stack, building backend services and models that match relevant businesses to interested customers. He has also ideated, built, and launched machine learning models that power Thumbtack's ranking. In his current role as a Senior Software Engineer, Bharadwaj works on the Marketplace team on greenfield projects related to search, ranking, data science, and pricing. He is skilled in software engineering, search, machine learning, backend development, Android, and data science. Bharadwaj has a strong interest in distributed systems and has built up his skills in this area by working on various infrastructure improvements to Thumbtack's backend. He has a total of 5.79 years of relevant experience and is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to expand his knowledge and skills.