Shrikant Desai

VP of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 4 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led global AI/ML teams at major media companies.
Pioneered AI-powered content localization solutions.
Drove significant user engagement improvements through advanced ML techniques.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI/ML for media and entertainment sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRecommender Systems

Other Skills

Team ManagementLeadership DevelopmentGenerative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Large Language Models (LLM)Organizational DevelopmentStrategyInternational ExpansionStrategic CommunicationsManaging the Learning FunctionData ScienceAI StrategyApplied Machine LearningLLMsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

About

Seasoned Executive, mentor, and advisor. Proficient in Artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, Management, cloud engineering, and infrastructure.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

The walt disney company

Director, Machine learning and AI

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

• Leading Ads research and ML/AI teams for Disney, ESPN, and Hulu, focusing on ads and streaming innovations.

Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceTeam ManagementLeadership Development

Warner bros. discovery

2 roles

Director of Machine Learning: localization, content understanding and Video synthesis

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Built and led the India AI/ML Center of Excellence, establishing a scalable organization across data science, machine learning engineering, and technical leadership to deliver enterprise AI/ML capabilities supporting global media platforms.
At Warner Bros. Discovery, led AI/ML-driven innovation in content understanding, localization, and advertising intelligence, enabling scalable content operations and improved audience engagement across international markets.
Key Achievements:
Built and scaled global AI/ML teams from the ground up, establishing offshore delivery capabilities and recruiting top talent across data science, ML engineering, and AI/ML leadership.
Launched AI-powered content localization solutions including automated closed captioning, subtitle, script generation, and multilingual translation to accelerate global distribution.
Advanced video intelligence and content understanding platforms, enabling automated identification of key moments and generation of short-form videos for marketing assets.
Drove applied AI/ML research and productionization, translating machine learning innovations into scalable solutions

Generative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningLarge Language Models (LLM)Organizational DevelopmentStrategy+14

Director of Machine Learning : Recommendation, and Personalization

Sep 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

I Led the core ML group at Warner Bros. Discovery, focusing on recommendation, personalization, search, and marketing strategies.
Drove significant improvements in user engagement minute watched metrics through advanced personalization and recommendation techniques, resulting in a measurable increase in customer experience and satisfaction
Developed a robust ML platform to efficiently manage the model lifecycle, enhancing training, deployment, and inference processes at scale required for global launch of HBO max and Discovery+
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Generative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software Project ManagementLarge Language Models (LLM)Machine LearningProduct Management+10

Grit

Technical Advisor

Apr 2020 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs

Zulily

Engineering Manager- Machine learning

Sep 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

At Zulily, I managed machine learning teams focused on building personalization & recommendations, search and ML Platform capabilities for zulily.com

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence

Ebay

Staff Applied Researcher

Feb 2013 – Sep 2019 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Manage and Build ML/AI services and ML platform for eBay.
Augmented Reality experience on eBay native apps.
Building IaaS, PaaS, and LBaaS applications which enable automation of provisioning, Pool creations and handling certs on load balancers and remote management of mobile devices to test native apps & mweb on iOS and Android devices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence

Ericsson

Research And Development Engineer - Intern

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

The university of texas at arlington

Data Analyst

Dec 2010 – Aug 2011 · 8 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Tata consultancy services

Software Engineer

Sep 2006 – Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed applications for JP Morgan & Chase Co and Standard chartered bank financial services.
Application performance tuning and database query optimization.