Ashish Gandhe

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led machine learning initiatives at Meta.
Drove significant revenue growth at Microsoft.
Expert in recommender systems and search optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven recommendation systems within the social media and e-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningRecommender SystemsSearch

Other Skills

AlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringDistributed SystemsComputer ScienceData MiningSoftware Development

About

Engineering Leader with interests and expertise in building and leading teams to achieve exceptional results. At Facebook I’m responsible for leading teams working on machine learning initiatives to provide the best recommendation of Reels / Short form videos to consumers and optimize creator experience on Facebook App. Before that I led machine learning teams for Facebook's commerce initiatives (Shops and Jobs recommendations, Marketplace Search). Before that I led key initiatives at Microsoft to improve Bing’s search relevance and revenue and was responsible for driving improvements to search relevance and several hundred million dollars of incremental revenue annually.

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

In Bing I lead team of 20 engineers across 2 global locations working on multiple areas with significant impact:
Optimizing Bing's results page for monetization - Built the machine learning system to optimize ranking, placement and prominence of search results towards revenue and user satisfaction. My team delivered several hundred million dollars of revenue increase every year.
Navigational experience and ranking of deeplinks - We delivered significant improvements to ranking & triggering of deeplinks and rich navigational results.
Rich captions for web results - We delivered significant improvements to Bing's rich snippets and rich answers created from web content leading to a significant competitive edge in this area.
Under my leadership, these areas were able to bring Bing quality ahead of Google in key areas.

Senior Development Lead

Promoted

May 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Tech lead manager of the team of engineers responsible for:
Ranking of deeplinks (sitelinks) on Bing SERP
Improving windows search experience through use of Bing-powered signals for local client search
Relevance of entity experiences (heroes) on search charm.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jun 2009 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos

As an IC I received Microsoft Gold Star award multiple times (given to top 5% engineers).
I worked on several areas within core relevance team and delivered several key improvements to Bing's web ranking.
I was directly responsible for the core modeling technology (FastRank based on Lambdamart) used in Bing for training and prediction of ranking models that lead to significant relevance and agility improvements.
I have worked on and delivered several machine learning techniques including feature engineering, training data optimization and core ranking algorithm that improved relevance across many markets and segments
I was responsible for the architecture design and significant relevance improvements for entity-centric queries on Bing.
My experience, skills and interests range from machine learning, architecture to building great teams.