Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Teach an 6-week part-time PM Leadership course to help build Product Management skills.

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mountain View, California

• Quixey was developing a personal assistant based on search technologies for mobile users. Our products interpreted voice queries in natural language, searched within apps, and deep-linked users into relevant content, minimizing the time it takes to complete an action.
• As a Product Lead, I led a team of engineers, QA, designers owning components ranging from content acquisition, indexing, machine-learned ranking, presentation, and several other proprietary components and helped the BD team to work on the different deals with partners.

Aug 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Led a team of technical PMs, Engineers, QA building eBay’s search platform Cassini built from scratch, which served 150K queries/sec and has ~15,000 servers in the data centers.
• Owned Query Serving Platform and responsible for various cross-team projects with search science and search front end, including query understanding and annotation, recovery techniques for queries with null or low result sets, machine translation for a global search experience, and the integration of locally available items.
• Product owner for the demand services backend to store users' behavioral data, used for ML ranking on eBay, and subsequently delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental GMB growth yearly via AB testing.
• Product lead for Document Summarization engine (Display Platform) in eBay, targeted to save hardware capacity and computation cost of main query serving grid by 20%.

Aug 2007 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for improving search recall, ranking, and relevance through tokenization, spell check, query expansions, and mapping queries to unstructured and structured item data leading to increased purchase activity, generating $$M lift for eBay in GMV.
• Developed eBay’s Shipping features in Search. Enabled GSP (Global Shipping Platform) in eBay in Search, which led US sellers to connect with millions of buyers in worldwide markets and significantly increase their sales (XX%) by making global trade as simple as domestic.
• Product owner of eBay’s Motors vehicle parts compatibility platform in Search (Fitment), which is directly responsible for ~1 billion annual sales.
• Work on-an on-going basis with in-country business and product teams to formulate global product requirements.

May 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Involved in architecture, design and implementation of various projects involving eBay’s Relevance platform Best Match.
• Architected a Merchandising Engine for eBay’s website, which will gather user inputs and run merchandising algorithms to suggest users the related queries and the related products.

Nov 2003 – May 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Replaced RMI with Java NIO in DigitalSafe Archiving Service to address the scalability issues with multithreaded applications. Also, replaced Java Multicast with Reliable Directed Unicast Communication to improve reliability, scalability and performance of data transfer by 4x.
• Audit Center: Designed a feature in the application to index and search in all the header fields of e-mail messages using the Lucene indexing and searching mechanism.