Avinash Atreya is a distinguished engineer at Meta since May 2025, previously holding the same title at Google from November 2017 to May 2025, where contributions included significant advancements in retrieval quality and AI hardware decision-making. Avinash received the Google Search Tech Impact Award three times and co-founded a project that re-imagined Google Search with vector-based retrieval, enhancing latency and capacity. Earlier roles included senior staff software engineer and lead on AI for Answers, achieving substantial increases in featured snippets and media recognition. Avinash’s foundational experiences include research roles at the University of California at San Diego and Microsoft, as well as lead developer positions at CustomerXPS and Ugenie. Educational credentials include a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.
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