Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Advising on company strategy, investment priorities, and key initiatives to help software engineers upskill and prepare for interviews

Jun 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Team: Search & Discovery
• Product Strategy: Defined product strategy & roadmap for Vrbo Ranking, 0-1 Product – Guest Experience Score & Gen AI teams, driving alignment with org OKRs & mission, resulting in ~$55M in gross profit increase at Expedia.
• Relevance Improvements: Enhanced Vrbo's ranking system by integrating relevant signals and optimizing the model to increase conversion and gain ~$25M in annual gross profit.
• Customer Experience: Launched Guest Experience Score globally on Expedia.com, reducing preventable bad experiences during trips & increasing traveler return rate by 8.5%, contributing ~$14M in annual gross profit.
• Generative AI: Launched a 0-1 Review Search experience on Expedia leading to ~30M monthly search queries.
• Personalization: Launched a personalized search retargeting experience that boosted conversion rate, generating an additional ~$9M in annual gross profit.
• Product Design: Overcame sparse data issues to redesign Guest Experience Score V2 & Supplier Portal UI, increasing supplier engagement by 23% and ~$7M in annual gross profit.

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• COGNISTX – Applied AI SaaS Platform startup
• Product Launch: Led a 0 to 1 Product, an NLP-based risk management platform for SOC form processing, which reduced user form completion time from 2 weeks to 1 week, increasing MRR by 15%.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• WHITERABBIT.AI INC. – AI for Breast Cancer detection B2B startup
• Experimentation: Designed and executed A/B tests that reduced Radiologist's reading time for breast cancer exams by 20%, saving the company over $1M+ annually.
• Go-to-market Plan: Transitioned patient onboarding from paper forms to a mobile app, enabling instant access to test results and reduced wait times, leading to 1000+ downloads in 3 months.

Oct 2018 – Dec 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• SHOP101 – Online social e-commerce platform
• Leadership: Sole responsibility for Products at Shop101, in a dynamic fast-paced environment reporting to CEO
• Payments: Increased customer SAT by 40% by revamping the entire payment pipeline and bring overall visibility
• Personalization: Lead Personalization infrastructure efforts for Campaigns/Offers for various customer segments
• Communication: Effectively coordinated with cross-functional teams - Business, Engineering & Design in terms of prioritizing features, building user personas, development and release in sync with the vision of the company

Jun 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad

• Bing Search: Retail & Shopping, Engagement Team(s)
• Machine Learning: Launched Bing's first Retail Shopping feature by building a CRF ML model for 18 product categories. Boosted user engagement and increased search queries by 12M+ annually in the US market.
• Data Analytics: Analyzed extensive query patterns to identify two product use cases, helping the PM shape the MVP for Bing's Retail & Shopping Team.
• User Engagement: Drove a 10M+ monthly increase in Distinct Search Queries for Bing's Engagement Team by taking ownership of developing multiple engagement experiences on Bing.com.

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Hyderabad

• Bing Search Engine: Local Team
• Received return offer for a full-time Software Engineer position starting June 2015

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India