About

Dhruv Kayastha is a highly skilled Software Engineer at Google with a background in Computer Science and Engineering. He graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur with a Dual Degree in 2021. Dhruv is an expert in developing scalable microservices, APIs, and internal-use libraries using a wide range of technologies including gRPC, AWS, Apache Zookeeper, Redis, PostgreSQL, Java, Node.js, and Python. Currently, Dhruv is a part of the Search Ads Quality team at Google Ads, where he applies his expertise to improve the quality of search ads. Prior to working at Google, he gained valuable experience as an SDE Intern at Mobile Premier League, where he successfully scaled invoice generation performance and reduced the number of servers required to run the service from 8 to 1. Dhruv has also worked as a Research Intern at Adobe, where he designed a model-agnostic algorithm to explain the behavior of Reinforcement Learning agents using saliency maps. His work was published in a research paper titled "Explain Your Move: Understanding Agent Actions Using Focused Feature Saliency" at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020. Dhruv's educational background includes a Dual Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and an ICSE from Narsee Monjee Educational Trust's - Jamnabai Narsee School. His technical skills include Software Engineering, Mobile Development, AWS, Search, Redis, Javascript, Research Science, Microservices, Reinforcement Learning, NodeJS, Python, and Java. With 1.77 years of relevant experience, Dhruv is a highly skilled and accomplished Software Engineer with a proven track record of success. He is passionate about leveraging his skills and knowledge to develop innovative solutions that drive business growth and success.