Feb 2020 – Feb 2026 · 6 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Jun 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building Belong by building teams, data science algorithms and disruptive products.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 · 2 mos

• Building data science algorithms to help people find where they belong.

Jun 2016 – Dec 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on a bunch of initiatives to see if we can setup a sustainable business model to ensure adoption of eco-friendly practices and processes by businesses and communities.

Oct 2012 – Sep 2013 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product / Technology mentor for startups that are part of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program in India (http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/accelerator/Mentors.aspx).

Feb 2012 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Member of the executive leadership team of BloomReach.
• Started the India operations of BloomReach and built a world class team of ~75 employees across various functions - engineering / product management / User Design / QA / Integrations/Support and HR / Support / Facilities.
• Lead and built the second revenue generating product for the company - SNAP (e-commerce Search and Personalization product) - out of the India office. Technically hands-on, architected the SNAP system, built highly innovative search / personalization / analytics features, designed the IR / ranking algorithms, mentored the team on search engineering and provided overall eng / product leadership to the effort. Filed bunch of patents in e-commerce search space.
• Day-to-day management of office / admin / recruitment / finance.
• Currently leading the growth hacking efforts of the company.

Mar 2006 – Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• ● Engineering Lead for Google Apps Marketplace. Responsible for product direction/vision, technical leadership and team management plus cross functional interaction with product
• management/developer relations/external developers.
• ● Engineering Lead for Google India Music Search. Conceived the idea and drove the product from conception to launch. All round contributions from technical to product including
• interactions with external partners/legal team. This also serves onebox on google.co.in
• ● Overall Technical lead for Google News Ranking/Quality. Rewrote the entire google news ranking code and ported it to a realtime ranking infrastructure. Ranking/quality is core (probably the life/breath) of Google News which is a automated news aggregation/ranking system. Singlehandedly fixed several issues on ranking and improved quality of Google News manifold on multiple dimensions - freshness/diversity etc.
• ● Conceived and created the notion of Bilingual News on Google News and successfully launched it. Invented and implemented a innovative soundex-based cross language clustering/matching mechanism to match news clusters across languages. Launched on several editions that have bilingual speakers including google India English / Hindi edition. Watch out for the "In English" links here.
• ● Launched several international editions of Google News including Hindi/Tamil editions in India.
• ● Filed couple of patents.

Mar 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• ● Designed and implemented various key software components including fault management, network management interfaces, redundancy and software framework of the Infinera Optical Network Element in QNX.
• ● Filed one pending patent in area of network management

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• ● Acted as a key contributor for the design, development and maintenance of Cisco IOS Service Selection Gateway (SSG) that offers services for subscribers in the broadband (DSL/Ethernet) and wireless (GPRS, CDMA, WLAN) access edge.
• ● Came up with innovative concepts and market differentiator ideas in field of edge networking services. Filed 7 patents in this area.
• ● Interacted with SSG customers for framing requirements. Conducted training programs for Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineers