Soorya Tanikella

Soorya Tanikella is an Engineering Manager at Facebook, based in Bellevue, Washington.1 He has been working at Facebook for over 11 years, starting as a Software Engineer in July 2011 and progressing to his current role as Engineering Manager in February 2017.1

Professional Experience

At Facebook, Soorya manages teams that focus on:

• Search Ranking
• News event detection based on content published on Facebook
• Query classifiers
• Retrieval and ranking of results within social networks1

Prior to his management role, Soorya worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook for about 5 years and 8 months. During this time, he contributed to various projects:

• Search ranking (4+ years)
• Experimentation and growth on mobile web site (2+ years)
• Low-end Android infrastructure (6+ months)1

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Facebook, Soorya worked at:

• Microsoft: As a Software Design Engineer II for 5 years and 3 months (May 2006 - July 2011). He was part of the Bing team, working on snippet generation using machine learning models and metrics for measuring web result relevancy.1

• Oracle India Pvt Ltd: As an Applications Engineer for 10 months (July 2005 - April 2006), where he worked on optimizing database patching systems to reduce downtime.1

Education

Soorya holds a Master of Science and Technology in Information Systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, which he completed between 2001 and 2005.1

His extensive experience in search ranking, machine learning, and software engineering has contributed to his current leadership role at Facebook, where he continues to drive innovation in search and content discovery technologies.