Riya Kavita Lad

Overview

Engineering Manager at Plume Robotics, focused on ML infrastructure. Led the migration of 66 services to Kubeflow. Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 513ms to 156ms. Before that: Booking.com and Salesforce. Most at home with feature stores and Python.

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Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2024 - Present
   Plume Robotics · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Led the migration of 67 services to feature stores.
   • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 696ms to 84ms.
2. ML Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Jan 2024
   Booking.com · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Replaced 56 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
3. ML Engineer

   Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
   Salesforce · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
4. Senior ML Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
   BAE Systems · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
5. ML Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
   Tesco · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
   • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 4.6%.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

Projects

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Education

1. King's College London

   BSc, Electronics and Communication
   2010 - 2013