Aug 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Leading platform teams working on spam and content filtering
• Leading a communications platform team for reliable and low latency delivery of email, sms and push notifications.
• Leading a relevance team working on different verticals in search.

Jul 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Spam and Content Filtering at LinkedIn
• Content Search at LinkedIn.
• Working on relevance problems in search.
• Communications At LinkedIn
• Working on building a world class platform to deliver email, sms and push notifications.
• Email deliverability at LinkedIn

Aug 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Responsible for site reliability of Google Cloud products - Google API(s), Google Storage, Google Compute Engine
• Started a new team on Google Compute Engine
• Grew the overall team by 7 engineeers
• Mentored engineers on Google technologies
• Projects on Java GC tuning, load testing, improved SLA monitoring

Mar 2008 – Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Led a team of 15+ engineers working on Google News, News Archives and Newspaper search (digitized old newspapers).
• Created a strong team of engineers with very good technical skills and domain knowledge. Grew engineers to senior positions.
• Team responsibilities included:
• a. Ranking of Google News frontpage
• b. Google News search ranking.
• c. Infrastructure for serving Google News.
• d. Clustering algorithms and infrastructure.
• Launched Google News in several Indian languages such as Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil.

Apr 2007 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Led a team of 10+ engineers that improved the indic experience on Google products and the web.
• Launched the Google Transliteration system in labs.
• Launched suggestions based on transliteration in Google search leading to a big increase in traffic.
• Integrated transliteration in Google products such as Gmail.
• Enhanced the transliteration footprint from 1 language to 22 languages.
• Launched the indic transliteration IME on Windows in 22 languages.

May 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Designed and implemented a ads indexing system along with a team of 2 engineers.
• Designed and implemented a online system for annotation of ads creatives for their compliance.

Jul 2004 – May 2005 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on the product configurator built for the automotive industry.
• Designed and implemented algorithms for solution completion given partial configurations with constraints on the solution and with a cost minimization objective.

Feb 2001 – Jun 2004 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Mateo

• Member of the Enterprise Application Integration team.
• Enhanced the transport layer for Siebel 7 including multiple enhancements to the HTTP(S) transport.
• Designed and implemented a Java business service layer using JNI.
• Part of a team that implemented the inbound web services layer of the Siebel product.

Oct 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Worked in a comparison shopping startup Eboodle.com which was acquired by Bizrate.com.
• Led the design and implementation of a declarative language for extracting product prices/details from shopping sites.
• Designed and implemented a solution for annotation of terms representing products on pages which could provide monetization for product pages.
• Designed a solution for one click checkout from a comparison shopping site.

Aug 1998 – Sep 1999 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Early employee of this Ecommerce startup. Worked on some applications for the Indian ecommerce market.

Feb 1998 – Jul 1998 · 5 mos

• Implemented enhancements to the trading platform at D E Shaw.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

• Taught Computer Science courses for the MSc. students of the Mathematics and Informatics stream at IIT Bombay.