About

Lakshay Taneja is a highly skilled Software Engineer (L4) at Google with over 3 years of experience in backend software development and productionising machine learning models. He is a graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science from DTU and possesses a strong background in designing and implementing distributed systems working across multiple data centers. Lakshay has a proven track record of modelling business problems using ML techniques to drive business metrics. He has demonstrated leadership skills by thinking from the product perspective and driving product features based on predicted ROI. His expertise also includes asynchronous microservice communication and implementation, using design patterns to achieve clean and extensible code, and writing descriptive and meaningful unit and integration tests to minimize erroneous code. Lakshay is proficient in programming languages such as Java, Python, and Scala and has hands-on experience with frameworks/libraries such as Kafka, Spark, HDFS, Couchbase, OffSpring (LinkedIn’s Spring variant), Pandas, Numpy, Git, and XGBoost. He is well-versed in distributed systems, HLD, LLD, OOP, functional programming, big data analysis (Spark), and event-driven programming. Prior to joining Google, Lakshay worked as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn on the Ads Trust team, where he automated highly precise ad reviews and ad creation using machine learning, heuristic algorithms, and other intelligent workflows. He also worked as a Data Scientist at Roadzen, where he worked on predicting flight delays using the XGBoost algorithm and predicting similarity between car damages in pictures taken from different perspectives using siamese networks. Lakshay holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from DTU and an Android Nanodegree from Udacity. He also completed his schooling from Delhi Public School - Dwarka. Overall, Lakshay is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer with a wealth of experience in backend and machine learning development. He is always seeking new challenges and opportunities to expand his knowledge and skills in the industry.