Prashant Maskara — CEO

I'm currently leading a rapidly growing user understanding team(across Bangalore and Mountain View) for Google Maps. Our team focuses on building a deep understanding of Merchants and Maps contributors to enable productive contribution from trustworthy users while keeping maps data free of abuse. Our work involves modeling users to predict abusive and trustworthy users as well as highly skilled and reliable contributors. Modeling these behaviours has been hard as there are highly incentivised bad actors involved in large scale commercial collusion as well as an absence of definitive labels. We use Data from maps contributions, across google products and common abuse teams to help improve information quality on Maps We're a rapidly growing team looking for EMs, TLs and individual Software engineers with expertise in Machine learning and distributed systems. Feel free to reach out to discuss specific opportunities that may interest you Earlier, I was running tech and product for 3 independent multi million dollar businesses for Media.net. Leading multi functional(Engineering, product, data science, UI, operations) cross location teams to deliver highly scalable and intelligent solutions to drive company revenues and profits. Specialties: Large scale distributed systems, Machine learning applications, Product management, Leading technical and operations organizations, operational excellence in running highly available and distributed services, hiring and developing strong Engineering teams.

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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 21 yrs 5 mos