I’m a Data Scientist at Meta Super Intelligence Labs (MSL); I work on the Llama Developer Platform.
At MSL, I work on understanding the Open Source LLM ecosystem, and how to make LLM's work for real use cases; how to make them reliable, performant, and actually deliver user value. In practice, this means digging into pre-training data, combing through evals, and reading reams of model outputs. You’d be surprised what you find in there.
Like most people in tech at some point, I worked on ads; I was part of the team at Meta that built and ran Click-to-WhatsApp Ads and helped develop Lead Ads for Business Messaging.
Before that, I spent a few years at FLYR Labs, an airline pricing startup, bringing machine learning into legacy revenue systems. Despite working on pricing data for three years, I still pay as much for a flight as anyone else.
I’m a quantitative economist by training. That means I learned to run linear regressions the hard way and am the first person to ask if something is correlation or causation.
I’m most energized when I'm working on 0 --> 1 projects; happiest when I’m learning, building, and shaping ambiguous problems into real products that work.
You can reach me at vignesh.ananth@gmail.com.