Ram Ramani

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Mountain View, California, United States29 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record of delivering $2.5B revenue growth.
  • Expertise in large-scale AI systems and distributed platforms.
  • Leader in fostering diverse and inclusive engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven solutions and user experience optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Language Models (llm)Distributed Systems

Other Skills

AI ModeAI OverviewsCross-functional Team LeadershipDiversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)JavaScript toolsScalabilityUI developmentadmin configurationbrandingcross-functional collaborationencryptionextension discoveryfrontend platform consolidationinferencelanguage modeling

About

- Expertise on large scale AI systems.    -   Modeling: training data generation, LoRA, RL, prompt life cycle and optimization, auto-raters    -   Inference: tools data retrieval(RAG), model invocation, pre and post processing, grounding, trust & safety, synthetic features & augmentation, layout and rich UIs. - Dynamic leader with a proven track record of successfully delivering platform and product wins in Google Search and beyond, that resulted in user growth, engagement, and over $XXB incremental annual revenue, on a 2 billion user base and 10K developers. - I set ambitious visions, thrive in ambiguity, and am skilled in leading cross-functional teams and collaborating with product partners across large matrix organizations to develop innovative products (hold 9 patents) by leveraging cutting-edge technology. - A people-first, empathetic, strategic thinker with a focus on customer-centric solutions, operational efficiency, and technical excellence in large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. I enjoy building diverse and inclusive teams - fostering psychological safety, with a culture of innovation, instilling a sense of pride and ownership, and nurturing the next wave of leaders.

Experience

29 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
9 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
18 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Google

4 roles

Sr. Director, Engineering - Search Platform

Promoted

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Built the platform for AI Overviews & AI Mode, on a new AI first Search stack. Includes
  • modeling: prompt life cycle and optimizations, auto-raters, querysets, training data generation (golden/silvers), LoRA, RL
  • inference: tools data retrieval(RAG), model invocation, pre and post processing, grounding, trust & safety, synthetic features & augmentation, layout and rich UIs.
  • Made the placement of Ads flexible (by location and at various points in the page life cycle) resulting in several $XB additional revenue streams per year.
  • Led platform teams to develop full stack product experiences on Search, so users can find higher quality answer, faster and directly on Google.
  • Drove user growth, increased user engagement, reduced operational costs and latency, resulting in over $2.5B incremental annual revenue on Search results page.
  • Built a diverse and inclusive team across 6 offices, collaborating with cross functional teams - product partners, UX, product/program management, QA, etc.
AI OverviewsAI Modemodelinginferenceuser engagementrevenue generation+3

Director, Engineering - Search Platforms

Promoted

Oct 2015Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Led platforms (a) that powered all UIs for Google Search, Assistant, and Feed (b) Search Results Page horizontal functionality - such as navigational affordances, visual appearance, search modes - image search, shopping, etc.
  • Delivered beautiful and intuitive user experiences on Search, through improvements in branding, reusable components, scalability across browsers, form factors, and devices.
  • Modularized the entire rendering stack across Web, Android, and iOS platforms, optimizing latency, RAM, and CPU consumption, faster product development velocity.
UI developmentbrandingscalabilitymodularizationLarge Language Models (LLM)Distributed Systems

Sr. Eng Manager - Search Platforms

Promoted

Jun 2010Sep 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Led org-wide efforts to reduce search latency by 100s of ms, setting goals and providing regular updates to executives and the board of directors.
  • Pioneered strategic initiative to transcode search results landing pages in emerging markets, resulting in 4x latency reduction, 50% increase in pageviews and 40% increase in Ads revenue. Incubated Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
  • Created the WebP open-source image format, which compressed images 30% smaller and powered Youtube video thumbnails, Android Play Store App icons, Chrome data compression proxy, images on Facebook, Ebay, etc.
  • Launched a smart Content Distribution Network - Page Speed Service, to speed up web pages by 50%, by applying web performance best practices.
search latency reductionstrategic initiativesweb performanceLarge Language Models (LLM)Distributed Systems

Eng Manager - Frontend Platforms

Sep 2007May 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Consolidated frontend platform teams that served hundreds of internal developers and hundreds of millions of end users on Search, Youtube, GMail, Calendar, Slides, Spreadsheets, Maps, Chrome, News, Picasa, Google+, etc.
  • Led JavaScript tools and libraries used across Google: Closure Compiler, Closure Library, Closure Templates.
  • Ideated and built Marketplace services for users to discover extensions to Google Apps, web Apps on Chrome App Store.
frontend platform consolidationJavaScript toolsextension discoveryLarge Language Models (LLM)Distributed Systems

Yahoo! inc.

Sr. Eng Manager - Messenger

May 2000Sep 2007 · 7 yrs 4 mos

  • Led Messenger rich media efforts with revenue of $30 million. Formulated eng vision, aligned with product teams, setup processes to scale the team & ensure quality.
  • Developed real time rich media (voice & video) platform for multiple OS. Initially, slow frame rate on dial up networks and later high quality pc-pc calling over SIP, PSTN In/Out, Video - H264, H263, music sharing, karaoke.
  • Built the Enterprise edition with encryption, admin configuration, portal based authentication.
real-time media platformencryptionadmin configurationLarge Language Models (LLM)Distributed Systems

Mindmaker, inc.

Sr. Software Engineer

Sep 1996May 2000 · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Jose, CA

  • Natural Language based query refinement, classification and spell checking.
  • Radial Basis Function based Neural Networks for gaming, speech and gesture/handwriting recognition.
  • Language model for human-like conversation (ala Eliza).
natural language processingneural networkslanguage modeling

Education

Kansas State University

MS

Jan 1994Jan 1996

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

BE

Jan 1990Jan 1994

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