Kavita Kanetkar

CTO

San Mateo, California, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led AI initiatives at Microsoft driving significant business metrics.
  • Achieved $3B+ revenue growth at Roblox through innovative product launches.
  • Transformed Twitter's ads infrastructure, boosting revenue from $2.5B to $4.5B.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AI and software engineering across tech and gaming industries.

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Ai At ScaleExecutive ManagementBusiness StrategySoftware EngineeringAds InfrastructureEngineering ManagementDistributed Systems

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ScalabilityTeam Building

Experience

Microsoft

Vice President of Engineering, Core AI Platform

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Core AI platform: Bringing AI power to the largest digital commercial space.
  • Lead for GroupMe, Skype, Teams consumer, Teams SMB & Segments. Led these Segments to achieve all time highs YoY for *all* business and engineering metrics : MAU, MEU and $.
AI at scaleExecutive ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringScalabilityTeam Building+1

Roblox

Head of Economy Engineering

Oct 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs · San Mateo, California, United States

  • Led Creator Economy: Launched ads, subscriptions, marketplace products, billing, fraud, payments, avatar core services, avatar search & discovery, economy ML & economy platform teams. Grew virtual economy to $3B+ revenue/bookings/robux.
Business StrategySoftware Engineering

Twitter

Director of Engineering, Ads Infrastructure @ Twitter

Oct 2016Oct 2020 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Head of Revenue Platform (Ads Infrastructure): Lead for ads serving, ranking infra, targeting, callback, data infra, analytics, billing, api, measurement and revenue processing teams (200+ engs) powered 4.5B revenue. Grew from 2.5B to 4.5B
  • Project Tao Lead (Twitter's #1 priority): In addition to platform teams, led infra team for successful launch of ads backend decomposition & rebuild of Twitter's next-generation ads platform (powering 4B+ in revenue on millions of cores and with four-9s availability, tight latency & high qps). Highly XFN work for 18+ months that dealt with 25+ teams across Twitter.
  • Consumer/Premium Video - Nov 2016:Feb 2018
  • Led 200MM+ revenue-generating premium publisher eng org. Partnered with premium partners like NFL to launch live streaming, 24/7 news channel for Bloomberg and others for premium media presence & engagement.
Ads InfrastructureSoftware Engineering

Redfin

Engineering Leader

Jan 2013Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Reporting to CTO, I managed a team of Principal SWEs & managers with their engineering sub-teams at Redfin through its 4-year hyper-growth phase from 200M through 2B IPO.
  • Focus areas owned:
  • Search, SEO, Customer Growth infrastructure
  • Web & Mobile Performance
  • iOS/Android aps & frameworks
  • Engineering Frameworks/Platforms/DevOps/Build & Test platforms
  • Built these teams ground-up, including hiring & transfers. Built and executed roadmaps & deliverables. Consistently YoY 2X-ed products, business metrics & teams for the tenure.
Engineering ManagementSoftware Engineering

Google inc

Software engineer/Tech Lead/TLM

Feb 2006Jan 2013 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • Ground floor dev for Google search pagerank infra & chrome browser.
  • Led, designed and developed various complex large-scale projects at Google, starting with mobile web search ranking load and performance infrastructure, commercial-pages crawler for Google sales, web search load and performance system, scaling and ranking, removal of bad URLs from Google's indexing pipeline and end to end diagnostics for Google's web search, image search and video search pipelines. Part of core engineering team that doubled Google's daily index year after year.
  • Member of developer team for WebKit & HTML5 support for Chrome browser mainly focusing on local storage, File API and developer tools. Collaborated with developers and architects from Apple Inc to form spec and implement many HTML5 features. WebKit open source committer. Chromium open source reviewer.
  • Technical lead for various global teams during tenure at Google.
  • Skills: Handling large scale (petabytes of data & scale of billions of queries regularly), distributed algorithms, MapReduce, GFS, C++, Py, Java, Google's internal tools.
  • Awards: Executive Management Awards (search), Founders award (chrome) ,promotions, spot(manager initiated) bonuses, peer bonuses.
Software EngineeringDistributed Systems

Education

Harvard University

C. M — Business

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

MS — Computer Science

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