Saheb Motiani

An engineer who loves investigations, alignment, and hard problems.

Most of my professional experience has been in developing product-based application-level software, but I am more interested in machine learning and research engineering roles these days.

I've been on a sabbatical since June 2025, finding fun, exploring reinforcement learning, and vibe coding personalized software.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ Meta

Jan 2024 - May 2025

Unblocked $7.7M in revenue (154% of target) by delivering a feature enabling non-admin users to appeal ad account integrity enforcements for high-value (Silver+) advertisers.
Resolved a critical concurrency bug causing notification delivery failures, and drove proactive engineering initiatives to improve system reliability and overall operational excellence.
Drove unification of Propagated Enforcements across Paid and Organic channels.

Senior Software Engineer @ Babylon Health

Aug 2019 - Oct 2023

Led a small cross-functional team. We are exploring a new delivery model for Applied Science tribe, where we take complete ownership of delivering Health Score experience.
Steering evaluation of Flink for Babylon's AI Platform by building repeatable patterns for ETLs, feature engineering, data pipelines, and stream processing for model training and inference.
Architected HealthIQ – a bespoke pattern for productionizing ML models generating risk predictions using Faust-based serverless functions. Model output powered internal products such as Outreach Tracker & Clinical Portals. (Python)
Developed Flowbase – an arsenal of tools & services for chatbot flow platform enabling the execution of Healthcheck & Symptom Checker products. (Scala)

Senior Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming Services

Aug 2017 – June 2019

Designed and developed Media Analysis Services (MAS) - a distributed microsystem that ensures the accuracy of incoming media files prior to transcoding and packaging. Utilized on-premises services and AWS for asynchronous communication via Kafka.
Lead a squad of three-four members for three-four months.

Software Engineer @ Cake Solutions (acquired by Disney)

Nov 2016 – Aug 2017

Broadcast Control Plane (BCP): Automates the media acquisition process of associating source and media exchange pipelines for the live media productions for ESPN+ and MLB.TV, powered by the BamTech platform.

Senior Associate @ Morgan Stanley

Aug 2014 – July 2016

Developed a framework for sending and receiving SMS messages to/from handsets, with integrations to 3rd party SMS aggregators such as Nexmo and Twilio.
Guided an intern in evaluating Slick Framework proof of concept.

Side Projects

rl-snake: Applying reinforcement learning to the game of Snake. (View)
tastebento.com: A social discovery app for curating "Top 4" profiles and discovering "Taste Twins." (View)

Skills

Proficient: Python, Scala, Numpy, Kafka, AWS
Intermediate/Beginner: Pytoch, Java, TypeScript, React, Flink, GCP, SQL, GraphQL, Kubernetes

Online Courses

Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I) by University of California San Diego (Jan 2026)
Neural Networks and Deep Learning by DeepLearning.AI (May 2023)
Machine Learning by Stanford University (April 2016)
Principles of Reactive Programming (June 2015)

Education

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)

July 2010 – May 2014

Bachelor of Technology, Information and Communication Technology.
Research Project: Movie Classification using k-means and hierarchical clustering algorithms.
OGDF.js for the Web (Google Summer of Code 2013) - Ported Open Graph Drawing Framework C++ library to JavaScript using Emscripten
ASCEND (Google Summer of Code 2012) - Custom Icons for Canvas Based Modeler

Outside work I enjoy spending my time reading and writing; I also love playing and studying poker.