Published in Lyft Engineering·PinnedPowering Millions of Real-Time Decisions with LyftLearn ServingBy Hakan Baba & Mihir Mathur Hundreds of millions of real-time decisions are made each day at Lyft by online machine learning models. These model-based decisions include price optimization for rides, incentives allocation for drivers, fraud detection, ETA prediction, and innumerable others that impact how riders move and drivers earn. …Machine Learning11 min readMachine Learning11 min read
PinnedMember-onlyA Taste of AmericanaTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts — Mark Twain Like most people’s 2021, mine was unusual. My year was filled with an irresponsible amount of travel. Propelled by the flexibility to work from anywhere and the audacity…United States Of America10 min readUnited States Of America10 min read
PinnedMember-onlyA (Very) Brief Story of the English LanguageThe origin story of the world’s most spoken language, from Proto Indo European to Modern English — Consider the fictional English word “ghoti”. How did you pronounce it in your mind? If you were unaware of this example used for showing irregularities of English spelling, you probably pronounced this word either as gho+tea or as go+tie. What if I told you that the pronunciation of this word…English11 min readEnglish11 min read
Published in Lyft Engineering·Jun 1, 2022Full-Spectrum ML Model Monitoring at LyftBy Mihir Mathur and Jonas Timmermann Machine Learning models at Lyft make millions of high stakes decisions per day from physical safety classification to fraud detection to real-time price optimization. Since these ML model based actions impact the real world experiences of our riders and drivers as well as Lyft’s…Software Engineering11 min readSoftware Engineering11 min read
Published in Lyft Engineering·Apr 28, 2021Speeding Ahead with a Systematic Approach to Web PerformanceFrom replaying shared rides on a map, to solving physical safety problems in real-time, to managing a fleet of thousands of bikes and scooters, to viewing the trajectories of autonomous cars—frontend services at Lyft support a plethora of diverse use cases. As Lyft has grown over the past decade, so…Web Development9 min readWeb Development9 min read
Oct 22, 2020Half a Decade at UCLAThis is a continuation of one of my previous articles, Halfway through UCLA, which talks about the first half of my Bruin journey. …College9 min readCollege9 min read
Published in tech@ucla·Apr 2, 2018Interview with David Patterson—Recipient of ACM A.M. Turing Award 2017, UCLA BruinThe ACM A.M Turing Award is the highest honor in Computer Science and is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing”. …Education11 min readEducation11 min read
Published in tech@ucla·Jan 22, 20182017++UCLA ACM’s Growth and Improvement in the past year — About one year ago, Vic Yeh and Sharon Grewal wrote an article called 2016++ that reflected on UCLA ACM’s progress. Since that article was published we have grown at a stunning rate—we’ve increased our membership to close to 700 people, organized over 120 events and matured as a student organization…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Sep 30, 2017A Silicon Valley SummerI designed my summer of 2017. For some context, I had always had a lot of questions about Silicon Valley and the San Fransisco Bay Area. Some of these questions were: Why have major technological innovations of the past few decades emerged from this small geography? What is it like…Silicon Valley8 min readSilicon Valley8 min read
Aug 13, 2017Halfway through UCLAExperiences & new things learned in my two years as a Bruin — The past two years have unquestionably been the best years of my two decades on the Earth. I’ve had the privilege of calling one of the most beautiful, innovative and vibrant places, home. UCLA has been much more than an educational institute for me. It has been a source of…College10 min readCollege10 min read
