About

Ritesh Mahato is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft (R&D) with over 10 years of relevant experience. He specializes in building highly available and scalable large-scale distributed systems using technologies such as Kubernetes and Kafka. He is also proficient in developing Android apps and widgets, creating chatbots with machine learning, and working with NLP. Ritesh has worked on various projects at Microsoft, including the Bing Platform, where he contributed to the QnA and Web Indexing platform for Bing Search Engine. He has also worked on Voice Assistant projects, where he focused on query understanding and intent/entity extraction. Additionally, he has experience in Bing Search, where he worked on relevance and ranking, information retrieval, classifiers, machine learning, and NLP. Before joining Microsoft, Ritesh worked as an Open Source Developer at Mozilla, where he contributed to the Add-on SDK repository. He also worked as a Software Engineer at PayPal. Ritesh holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Warangal. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, ML, Search, Information Retrieval, Android, NLP, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Web. Overall, Ritesh is a skilled software engineer with a strong background in developing large-scale distributed systems, search engines, and machine learning projects. He is a valuable asset to any team he works with and is passionate about creating innovative solutions to complex problems.