Vinod Varala

Software Engineer

Vinod Varala is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in developing and optimizing technologies across several prominent companies. Currently at Meta since January 2025, Vinod is part of the Facebook Stories team, focusing on enhancing monetization through the optimization of the Ads end-to-end flow. Prior to this role, Vinod worked at Amazon Web Services from January 2024 to January 2025 on a GenAI team, developing services for the AWS Support organization and creating a vector search retrieval service utilizing Amazon OpenSearch and other technologies. Vinod served as a Senior Software Developer at UPS from January 2021 to January 2024 within the Advanced Technology Group, where work involved creating Retrieval-augmented generation applications leveraging GPT-4V's capabilities. Earlier experience includes a role as a Software Developer at CGG from January 2016 to January 2021, leading seismic data processing projects and developing deep learning models for geological data visualization. Vinod holds a Master’s Degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor’s Degree (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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