About

Ganesh Iyer is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, with over 6 years of experience in building machine learning platforms for healthcare. His current focus at Microsoft is on Health AI. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ganesh worked at the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science where he designed and implemented a microservices architecture for real-time clinical inference on medical images at one of the world's largest hospital networks. He also developed a cloud-native layer for managing the platform using Nomad, Consul, and Ansible. Ganesh refactored critical components in ML annotation pipelines to a GRPC and Kafka-based microservices architecture, resulting in a 10x performance improvement. He led efforts to add visibility across services using Prometheus and Grafana, improving performance and reducing bugs. Ganesh's previous experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Emory University, where he designed, implemented, integrated, and productized advanced web services-based tools for Big Data in cancer research. He also worked on the architecture and design of big data management and analysis platforms for cancer research. Ganesh has experience in full-stack development, microservices, and data visualization. He is proficient in Node.js, Python, React, Docker, D3, AWS, MongoDB, and Druid, and has experience with continuous integration and delivery using Github, Travis CI, and Docker. Ganesh has a Master of Technology in Machine Intelligence from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Surat. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in software engineering, ML, AI, microservices, Ansible, Kafka, big data, Docker, research science, AWS, CI/CD, Javascript, MongoDB, integration, web, NodeJS, and Python. Ganesh has 7.95 years of relevant experience and is passionate about building innovative solutions that make a difference in healthcare.