Ankur Khator

Product Manager

Andhra Pradesh, India20 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in software and product management.
Led initiatives for accessibility in Microsoft Windows.
Expert in machine learning integration for consumer applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with extensive experience in software development and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentTeam LeadershipHiringProject PlanningSoftware Project ManagementManagementStorytelling

About

I now frequently use linked in to share learnings and stories with the hope that we can build a community, gain new perspectives and learn from each other. As a side benefit, I am hoping it will also helps me with accelerated recruitment. If you are sending a connect request, please add some context on why you think we should connect. About me I got my first PC in high school and immediately fell in love with computers and programming. Periodic table program that I wrote in C++ in 11th grade is still one of the most proud projects for me. This love for computers got me to do Bachelor's in Computer Science at IIT Bombay. I started my career as a Software Engineer but within few years moved to product management. I was fortunate to work across a variety of domains across Microsoft and Meta. I worked to make businesses successful on Facebook (Meta) ecosystem by providing them the tools they need as part of Meta Business Suite product. Prior to this, I delivered Microsoft Edge browser data sync solution, integrated ML models (Face recognition, Object detection, photo quality etc.) in Windows Photos app, delivered core relevance improvement for Bing & built a new platform for shipping Bing rankers. Currently I am leading work to make Microsoft Windows truly accessible. Overall, I have more than 18 years of experience across variety of domains and products used by millions of users & businesses.

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

Group Product Manager

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementTeam Leadership

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Edge Browser

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Enabled users to work seamlessly across all their devices using new version of Edge browser. I led the work to ensure all browser data like favorites, passwords, history are in sync across all user devices.

Software DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementTeam Leadership

Senior Program Manager - Windows Photos and Video team

Apr 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Led machine learning investments for Windows Photos app to deliver Photos search. This included image recognition, face detection and recognition, highlight detection for videos as well as location lookup. My responsibilities covered gathering data, managing annotations workflows, defining metrics, overlooking training & measurement to integration with real scenarios.
Engaged with different internal teams like Microsoft Research, Microsoft Cognitive Services to leverage the computer vision technology from those teams as well as multiple external vendor companies for data collection/annotation.

Software DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

Program Manager - Microsoft Bing

Promoted

Sep 2010 – Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Owned relevance for Bing Local experience in France and Italy markets. This included engagement with Business Development team on driving right data partnerships, maintaining external partnerships, query understanding, data indexing & ranking.
Delivered relevance improvements of Bing web results for technical queries
Created infrastructure for faster verification and roll out of rankers in production

Software DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

S/w Design Engineer - Microsoft Adcenter

Dec 2006 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Built Proof of Concept for setting up pipeline between the manual editorial review tasks and crowd-sourcing platforms demonstrating it to be a viable path. Worked as part of team to architect, create and deploy the solution.

Software DevelopmentProduct Development

Trilogy india e-business s/w pvt ltd

Technical Analyst

Jul 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore, India

Project deliverable was to provide a framework to Ford and all dealers to maintain all the dealer websites. Technologies included JAVA, Spring framework, Web flows, hibernate, Websphere, Java 1.5 Generics, MSSQL.

Software Development