Vikas Mishra

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led technology vertical at Pixis, driving innovation.
Developed award-winning database anonymization solution.
Contributed to multiple open-source projects and publications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and MarTech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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EntrepreneurshipE-commerceStrategic PartnershipsProgrammingPythonSaaSStart-upsMobile ApplicationsProduct ManagementStrategyMobile DevicesBusiness DevelopmentCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareManagement Consulting

About

Ph.D. scholar and researcher from Inria Lille-Nord Europe. Currently leading the technology vertical of Pixis, a US-based Al-powered marketing technology company. Conducted extensive work on web security and data privacy. Conceptualized and developed Aircloak's real-time database anonymization solution. Additionally also contributed to various open-source projects, including FPRandom, Tree- herder, Perfherder, Alert Manager, GeoNode, and FPMonitor, and published award-winning scientific papers, including the Distinguished Artefact Award for FPRandom at ESSOS 2017.

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Pixis

3 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Vice President - Tech

Nov 2022 – Apr 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Refactored the Sync Pipeline to significantly decrease sync times from over 5 hours to less than 10 minutes, along with enhancing the resilience and scalability of data ingestion.
Opened up the Mid-Market Revenue Channel by solutioning Pixis for Multi- brand Media Agencies.
Created industry specific Generative AI Modules for a deeper penetration into gaming and mobile industry.
Restructured the team towards a more agile and modular approach of development, to serve a higher number of clients with greater efficiency and flexibility.

Vice President - R&D New Initiatives

Jul 2022 – Oct 2022 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Drove in-house research towards generative AI to enhance our creative capabilities by setting up three verticals – AI Research, Engineering & Creative Production.
Built an enterprise analytics platform for clients to monitor KPIs across different channels and measure true incrementality.
Worked closely with over 10 brands to build a host of AI support tools to enhance performance and automate most manual processes.

Eyeo

Research & Engineering (AdBlock Plus)

Oct 2021 – Jul 2022 · 9 mos · Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Designed and developed machine learning tools to automate the generation of filter lists in Adblock Plus focussed on identifying and blocking trackers and malicious scripts, improving user security and enhancing their browsing experience.

Inria

PHD Researcher

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Lille Area, France

Worked on web security & privacy, large scale web crawls, bot detection, tracker detection, browser fingerprinting.

Max planck institute for software systems

Research Associate

Aug 2017 – May 2018 · 9 mos · Kaiserslautern, Germany

Aircloak's first-in-class real-time database anonymization solution provides instant privacy compliance and enables high-quality analytics for any data set and any use case.
Developed a measure of anonymity and comparison metric for different anonymization systems based on GDPR guidelines, this work evolved into the GDA Score
Implemented different attack methods like Dinur/Nissim and then patched the system with defence mechanisms.

Google

2 roles

Developer, Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos

Successfully implemented remote storage services for PyWPSAs as a Student Developer for OSGeo under Google Summer of Code 2016.

Developer, Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

Developed a central authentication server for GeoNode, as a Student Developer for OsGeo under Google Summer of Code 2014

Inria

Research Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Rennes Area, France

Worked in DiverSE team at INRIA Rennes as a summer intern.
Studied various browser fingerprinting techniques and developed a protection method in Firefox Browser.
Our work was published at ESSoS 2017 where it received Distinguished Artefact Award for my implementation in the FireFox Browser and inspired Brave Browser's latest fingerprinting protection in 2020.

Mozilla

Core Contributor

Dec 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs · Engineering Productivity, Mozilla

Significantly contributed to the development of the Engineering Productivity Team (formerly Automation Team) during my tenure as a core contributor at Mozilla, which led to the enhancement of the organization's automation infrastructure.