Neelesh Dewangan

Neelesh Dewangan is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in backend development and machine learning infrastructure. Currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Uber since December 2024, Neelesh focuses on building Maps data backend and ETL processes. Prior to this role, Neelesh worked at Mapbox as a Software Development Engineer II, enhancing Search Infrastructure and developing MLOps for large-scale machine learning model training. Neelesh's experience includes a position as a Machine Learning Engineer at SmartNews, Inc., where contributions were made to the News Ranking Product, including MLOps infrastructure and feature engineering. Earlier career highlights involve work as a Software Engineer at Yahoo! JAPAN, contributing to the YJ Search Product through knowledge graph and data transformation. Neelesh holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus.