Jan 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Discovery, Personalization and Ranking for Gaming and Metaverse Experience (GAME) within YouTube.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Improving Google Discover feed quality for xxxM+ daily active users.
• Leading an effort to blend interest exploration and topic diversity in the feed with deep learning.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Machine Learning Engineer at Google Research / Google Brain / Google AI.
• Collaborating with various products like Google Ads and YouTube:
• Optimize recommendations for long term user engagement using Reinforcement Learning techniques.
• Transfer learned knowledge from the recommender system component to improve the search component.
• Modeling search query refinements for improving core ad systems.

May 2014 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Machine Learning Lead for award winning and industry renowned GMail Spam/Phishing system with 1B+ daily active users.
• Building large scale ML systems, infrastructure and modeling improvements for better classification.
• Novel implementation for personalizing the (soft) spam experience.

Sep 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Designing and Building high qps backend services for Google Apps for Work (Enterprise).

Nov 2011 – Sep 2012 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Designing and building the backend architecture and content recommendation engine for new initiatives in consumer internet space.

Jan 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Core Mobile Ad Serving System:
• Performance and ROI optimizations for ad-serving and click-processing modules.
• Designed ways to effectively utilize post-click metrics from advertiser pages; implemented a feedback loop into ad-server using such events to boost up 'Advertiser Return on Investment' and network eCPM.
• Going beyond text and banner ads, enabled serving of award winning 3-dimensional ad formats and rich media ads over InMobi's network.
• Developed a complete beaconing/analytics solution for tracking user interactions from within ad units, enabling efficient billing and reporting.

Jul 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Advertising Technology Group (sponsored search) at Yahoo! India Research and Development.
• Automate bidding within campaigns by efficiently spending the budget, based on advertiser's objectives.
• Decide relative display frequencies of creatives(ads) in an adgroup, maximizing performance.
• Distribution control, geographic/demographic targeting for campaigns.

May 2007 – Jun 2007 · 1 mo

• Worked on identifying paradigms for words in Hindi Language, and study their morphology.