Sep 2020 – Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States / Bangalore, India · On-site

• Led Query Intent and Query Understanding modules development for vehicle buying ads on google.com search page, a grounds-up effort. Rolled out a new deep learning ML model for query intent with huge returns on precision and revenue. Conducted human evals, model training and A/B experiments. Published further roadmap for Query Intent and Understanding areas, incorporating interesting ideas involving new ML models.
• Led the Fleet Data Services, Foundations team for the Cloud Compute Engine. Delivered online and historical data for Forecasting and Efficiency Metric applications. Earlier led an 18-member team working on data center capacity optimization for all Google products, handling Ordering service and the Power accounting module.

May 2019 – Mar 2020 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked on interesting data science problems for BliBli, an Indonesian eCommerce major
• Solved Price Comparison problem for competitive pricing with innovative data science and algo techniques (>99% precision, >95% coverage for the challenging supermarket category)

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Fashion ecommerce portal
• Led Data Products as part of Analytics and Data Engineering, managed key initiatives across the organisation of 25+ developers and 2 managers
• Worked with architects across verticals on building Active-Active BCP setup for Order-Taking part of the Myntra stack.

Dec 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Led teams of varying sizes from 12 to 45, including managers.
• Rolled out v1 of Boost Zones, an Uber-compete feature - extra payout for drivers picking up customers from peak traffic areas, using data science to improve efficiency. Contributed several ideas to improve the solution and got great results.
• Led complete TaxiForSure development, from mobile apps to backend. Drove multiple large-scale initiatives as part of integrating and then migrating TaxiForSure to Ola platform. Complex projects, hugely successful. Tech: iOS/Android, Python, Java, Node.js, MySQL.

Apr 2009 – Dec 2014 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Senior Engineering Manager (Yahoo, 2011 – 2014): Built a low-latency data/object replication pipeline for the Display Advertising platform. Led a turn-around effort to stabilize the product, came up with interesting ideas on re-architecture. Team of 8 to16. [Java, HBase]
• Principal Development Manager (Microsoft, 2010 – 2011): Developed a Recommendation engine for search advertisers of Bing. A Google-compete feature, ground-up effort, rolled out in 6 months with great results. Managed 10 developers. [C#, .NET, SQL Server]
• Senior Engineering Manager (Yahoo, 2009 – 2010): Worked on bid optimization tool for search advertisers. Presented a paper on “Near-Optimal Keyword Bids” in Tech Pulse.
• Yahoo center closed down in 2014

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Worked on SecurID agent technology, the industry-leading 2-factor authentication solution. Used C++ on Linux and C# on Windows.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• Worked on Analytics projects, and a Container management system.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

• Led a team of 25 engineers and 2 managers in the development of deployment and configuration tools for Oracle products. Key launch was v1 of Grid Provisioning (Bare Metal) as part of the Enterprise Manager product. [J2EE]

Jan 1997 – Jan 2003 · 6 yrs · California, USA

• Architect, eCommerce Application: Designed key features such as access control and distributed caching. [Java/J2EE, C++, CORBA, Unix]
• Senior Software Engineer: Developed a matching engine to serve personalized content, and a scheduler system to send personalized messages. [C++, Unix]

Jan 1993 – Jan 1997 · 4 yrs · California, USA

• Worked on the Replication Server product [Sybase] and NonStop SQL engine [Tandem].