Navneet Rao

CTO

Pune, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Payments Engineering and Search Technologies
  • Led innovative projects in Recommender Systems and Bioinformatics
  • Proven track record in team leadership and data-driven solutions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on data-driven search and payment solutions.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Payments EngineeringSearch RelevanceLocal SearchRecommender SystemsBioinformaticsData Analysis

Other Skills

UPICardsWalletRankingTeam LeadershipData ScienceMachine LearningQuery UnderstandingSearch FeaturesA/B TestingAnalyticsGenome Sequence AnalysisBiomarker DiscoveryGene Expression AnalysisAnomaly Detection

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Phonepe

Head Of Engineering : Payments (UPI, Cards, Wallet)

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Responsible for all payment instruments available on phonepe. Upi, Cards, Wallet etc.
Payments EngineeringUPICardsWallet

Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager - Search Relevance and Ranking

Aug 2015 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Leading a team of engineers, architects and data scientists to make Search at Flipkart state of art.
Search RelevanceRankingTeam LeadershipData Science

Apple

Maps Search

Jun 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cupertino, California, United States

  • Worked on Local(POI) Search for Apple Maps. It involved the complete rewrite of the search stack and enhanced autosuggest, spell correction, query understanding and ranking through machine learning.
Local SearchMachine LearningQuery UnderstandingRanking

Ebay

Senior Applied Researcher - Search / Recommender Systems.

Aug 2010 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Campbell, California, United States

  • Search :
  • Worked on a bunch of search features either rewriting them or launching new ones.
  • Autocomplete, Related Searches, User Intent, Query Intent, A/B testing, Analytics, Null and Low/Tail Query enhancements
  • Recommender Systems:
  • Launched the first automated data driven recommender system for ebay.
  • Worked on following areas:
  • Products/Items Clustering, Similar Items, Related Items, Popular/Trending Items, Gift recommender system, Social Gifting, Named Entity Extraction
Search FeaturesRecommender SystemsA/B TestingAnalytics

University of minnesota - twin cities

Research Assistant - Bioinformatics

Feb 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Large scale genome Sequence analysis, Biomarker discovery, Gene expression Analysis
Genome Sequence AnalysisBiomarker DiscoveryGene Expression AnalysisBioinformatics

Tata research development and design center

Researcher

Aug 2006 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

  • Large scale data analysis, Anomaly detection, change detection, time series analysis, optimization
Data AnalysisAnomaly DetectionChange DetectionTime Series Analysis

Education

University of Minnesota

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

COEP Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006

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