Madhusudhan Rao

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• Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

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• My Website
• My Blog

Madhusudhan Rao’s Summary

Lead developer with more than 6 years of experience in designing, developing and supporting large highly scalable and available systems on commodity hardware, with experience in Online Advertising. Always interested in early stage startups.

Madhusudhan Rao’s Specialties:

Cloud computing, Distributed systems, Information Retrieval, Machine learning, Recommendation Systems, AJAX, Agile practitioner, Refactoring, Java, J2EE, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl.

Madhusudhan Rao’s Experience

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  December 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Designing and building highly scalable and available systems on commodity hardware. A few products I have worked on here are
  - Amazon Widgets Platform (typepadwidgets.amazon.com).
  - Statistical classifier for categorizing products in the Amazon catalog.
  - Building the relevance engine for Amazon's Omakase product, including a machine learning (SVM) based feedback loop to tune our algorithm heuristics based on user generated data like clicks/conversions.

Additional Information

Madhusudhan Rao’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Madhusudhan Rao’s Interests:

Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Online Advertising, Startups, Playing Guitar, Hiking

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