About

Hitesh Jain is a Lead Software Engineer at Facebook with over 10 years of relevant experience in software engineering and machine learning. He is passionate about technology and building great products while fostering strong relationships along the way. Currently, he holds the position of Software Engineering leader - FB App integrity at Facebook, where he develops systems, consults across product engineering teams, ensures engineering design and operational excellence, identifies opportunities of impact and builds a world-class product. Hitesh has contributed significantly to Facebook's success, having worked on various projects in the past. He has worked as a Software Engineer - Video Comprehension, where he developed algorithms that detect audio/video copyright infringement on Facebook and Instagram. He worked with product teams to define the problems and used machine learning techniques for them. Additionally, he has worked as a Software Engineer - Live Infra, where he worked on the videos infra team, specifically on Livewith, which allows two people to be live together on Facebook surfaces. He worked on compositing the two media streams, which involved working on streaming protocols and tools like ffmpeg and gstreamer. Hitesh Jain has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has a strong background in computer science and has gained expertise in software engineering, senior software engineering, infra, and ML. Hitesh is a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual who is always looking for opportunities to learn and grow. He is a great team player and collaborates effectively with teams around the world for data collection, developing accurate and highly performance optimized models (performance is important at Facebook scale), integrating them with Facebook infrastructure, and repeating.