About

Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, also known as Ragha, is an experienced Machine Learning Software Engineer currently working at Google. With almost 12 years of relevant experience, he has worked on a wide range of projects, from full-stack software development to prototyping and scaling ML models. Ragha's current role at Google involves working on Machine Learning models and developing software solutions. He is always up for fun and challenging projects and has a passion for developing innovative solutions. Before joining Google, Ragha worked as a Software Engineer at Amazon, where he built various ML models and backend systems for Amazon Instant Video X-Ray product. His major contributions include work on end-end actor identification pipeline, adult video classification, video scene segmentation, ML evaluation tooling, video attribute(s) classification, and understanding using deep learning models. Ragha also worked at Microsoft, where he developed several end-end backends and full-stack systems. He developed cross-platform apps (iOS, Android, and Windows Phone) using HTML5/JS and Cordova. Ragha holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University. He has expertise in ML, Software Engineering, Video Classification, Deep Learning, Backend, Android, and iOS. Overall, Ragha is a highly skilled and experienced Machine Learning Software Engineer with a passion for developing innovative solutions. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow his skill set.