Yogesh Kapoor

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India18 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in technology leadership.
Expertise in AI-driven platforms and big data analytics.
Proven track record in enhancing operational efficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AdTech and Data Engineering with a strong focus on AI and Big Data.

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Skills

Core Skills

AdvertisingPythonData EngineeringMachine LearningInformation RetrievalNlpTechnical LeadershipTeam ManagementBig DataAndroid DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringJava Development

Other Skills

AB experimentationAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAnalyzerApache KafkaApache PigApache SparkArchitectureAspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)Big Data AnalyticsBigQueryBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Growth

About

Looking for a Flutter dev (1–2 yrs exp) for a hybrid contract role. Flexible hours, fast-moving project, early-stage but solid. If you’re interested in building something cool from scratch, reach out! Technology leader with 19 years of experience in architecting and delivering scalable, AI-driven platforms for web and mobile products, big data analytics, and programmatic advertising. Expertise in driving operational efficiency, enhancing user engagement, and increasing revenue through technology driven innovative solutions. Proven track record of building and leading cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives and successful integrations with global partners.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Tokopedia

3 roles

AVP Ads Technology

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Directed the development of a comprehensive programmatic advertising platform, utilising a diverse technology stack including Java, Python, GoLang, ElasticSearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Google Cloud, Python, NLP, LLMs, FastText, Generative AI, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, New Relic, Milvus, and Vertex AI
Innovated capabilities such as semantic ad retrieval and real-time reranking to improve ad personalisation based on hyperlocal data and user demographics. Smarter display algorithms via improved intent derivation for targeting, and recommendations, significantly enhancing ad performance. Optimised budget and bid allocation through auto ads engine, increasing auto ads adoption by 2 times.
Led strategic integrations with external partners, SSPs and DSPs such as Jixie, The Trade Desk and PubMatic, ensuring seamless deployment and operational efficiency. Successfully launched an external ads solution that integrates via OpenRTB, enabling programmatic ads on the open internet.
Conceptualised and rolled out a unified modelling platform, enhancing feature generation, real-time inference, and data governance with technologies like BigQuery, Milvus, Vertex AI, Redis, Dataflow, and AB experimentation capabilities via Turing, Rollence, and Litmus.
Optimised operational processes, resulting in an 80% improvement in system uptime and a 98% reduction in MTTA and MTTR.
Maintained a hands-on approach to problem-solving and project delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes and continuous improvement.

System ArchitectureLarge Language Models (LLM)Protocol BuffersAdvertisingLeadershipPython+25

AVP Search Technology

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

Improving search relevance at scale using cutting-edge information retrieval techniques.
Enabling AI solutions adoption at scale.

Information RetrievalNLPLeadershipElasticsearchKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical Leadership+6

Head Of Search Technology

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Fine tuning matching, relevance and ranking using state of the art information retrieval techniques.

AnalyzerSystem ArchitectureData StructuresLarge Language Models (LLM)NLPMilvus+23

Chegg inc.

Engineering Manager

Dec 2016 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

Led Conversational Tutoring, Online Tutoring, Writing tools - Drove technical design and architecture discussions across the stack, focusing on micro-services, server-less architecture, conversational AI, ML powered scoring, real time inference capabilities, and scalability best practices. Managed scalability, operational efficiency, resilience, performance, real-time analytics, machine learning, and KPI monitoring. Vendor management for AWS, monitoring tools, third-party application tools, and assessment platforms.
Technologies - Java, Spring, Python, Django, MongoDB, PySpark, Rundeck, Redis, PostgreSQL, RedShift, ElasticSearch, Data Bricks, Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Athena, New Relic, ECS (Docker), AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, Spark ML, gRPC, Parquet, InfluxDB, NewRelic

System ArchitectureData StructuresDomoKey Performance IndicatorsTechnical LeadershipTeam Leadership+4

Quad analytix

Engineering Manager/Architect - Data Acquisition and Management Platform

Oct 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

Architected, designed and implemented Extraction Management and Intelligence Layer, DataMart, Realtime Anomaly Detection, Crowd management platform and Machine learning platform(Computer vision and NLP (textual classification and data augmentation)) using Java, Python, MongoDB, MemCache, PySpark, ScikitLearn, AWS S3, Hadoop Yarn, Fair Scheduler, Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, DropWizard, Dynamic Resource pools, Oozie+HUE, Cloudera.
Hired and managed highly effective and empowered team. Responsible for growth plan and compensation

Support Vector Machine (SVM)System ArchitectureData StructuresTableauSQLApache Pig+20

Syncapse

Lead Data Engineer

Dec 2011 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Processing data using Hadoop (HBase, MapReduce, HDFS, Hive)
Redis based in memory data processing layer implementation.
Creating Job flows using Oozie(Work-flow, Co-ordination flows) and Azkaban.
Hadoop, HBase and Zookeeper cluster configuration and tuning.

NoSQLHiveData StructuresSQLApache PigHadoop+11

Xebia

Senior Consultant

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Built components for DNBI's 'Credit Network'. Started off Android competency unit while later led us to successfully win mobile development contracts. Developed ING Core Banking Android App
As a Knowledge Facilitator, Organized and conducted training and workshops focussing on new technologies and design principles.

MemcachedData StructuresHibernateJavaAndroid DevelopmentGrails+4

Fico - fair isaac

Software Engineer

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Developed EnCore which aims at automating collection and recovery process using active analytics and rules engine using Java, Spring, Hibernate, iBatis, PostgreSQL

Data StructuresJakarta PersistenceJavaAspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)Software DesignJMock+4

Infosys

Software Developer

Oct 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Worked on enterprise software powering Deutsche banks core banking technologies. Leveraged Java, PostgreSQL stored procedures, Java server faces and Weblogic’s EJB.
Got rewarded as a member of Most Spirited Team in Infosys for exceptional performance.

Data StructuresHibernateSQLJavaRelational DatabasesSpring Framework+2