Vardhan Dharnidharka

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Scaled engineering teams from 5 to 30 at Lyft.
  • Led multi-team initiatives to relaunch core products post-COVID.
  • Developed machine learning frameworks that improved financial metrics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Transportation and Fintech, specializing in Machine Learning and Product Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipTeam ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentMachine LearningFull-stack Development

Other Skills

Neural NetworksData PipelineSearch Engine OptimizationData MiningJavaBig DataInformation RetrievalProblem SolvingMapReducePythonC++HadoopOozieApache PigJavaScript

About

Built and scaled multiple teams across various verticals at Lyft with 30 Engineers and 4 EMs. Responsible for some of the core Rider Products, and driving innovation across Lyft via Delivery & Rideshare Labs

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Stellaris venture partners

Principal

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Shiftsmart

Director of Engineering

Oct 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Core Product
LeadershipTeam Management

Clickup

Head of AI/ML

Feb 2023Oct 2023 · 8 mos

LeadershipTeam Management

Lyft

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2019Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Rider Products
  • ● Products - Spanned across 4 teams and 2 continents, responsible for the core Rider Product -
  • Airports/Travel, Priority Pickup, Shared Rides, Wait & Save, Scheduled Rides along with critical
  • partnerships with Disney, Delta, Mastercard. Scaled team from 5 to 25 over 12 mos across US and EU
  • ● Post-Pandemic Products - Led multiple multi-team multi-quarter initiatives to relaunch a new Shared
  • Rides product and rebuild the Airports team and product post-COVID. Airports/Travel now contribute
  • double digits share of revenue and Shared Rides is stable and financially viable in markets
  • Delivery
  • ● Incubated and led engineering for an emerging Line-of-Business for Lyft around white-label Delivery.
  • Contributed to strategy and roadmap; build Engineering team from scratch
  • ● Execution - Led team to improve e2e quality by +20pp, increased volume by 10x. Worked with
  • product and cross functional teams to deliver on products across the board - from Driver Pay to Driver
  • XP, Marketplace improvements, Partner products to engineering & product reliability
  • Rideshare Labs
  • ● Rideshare Labs - Incubated and built out several high-impact products across Rideshare - improving
  • experimentation technologies - online parameter turning, causal inference improving shared rides
  • efficiency, improving driver utilization & marketplace productivity
  • ● Priority Mode - Led a program of scientists & engineers across multiple teams to deliver a redesign of
  • the Rideshare product to create Priority Mode for Drivers. This created a potential of >$200M improved
  • profit and increased Marketplace efficiency for Lyft
LeadershipTeam Management

Staff Machine Learning engineer

Mar 2018Jun 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • ● Tolls Modeling - Tech led and built a new Tolls Estimation framework when calculating upfront Fare
  • via a Neural Networks. Improved overall metrics leading to >$10M in improved financials
  • ● Price Sensitivity Modeling - Built a Neural Network-based system to estimate the sensitivity to
  • change in price in real-time. This is one of the core components of the Pricing framework at Lyft

Bloomberg lp

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Promoted

Jun 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Work on Machine Learning products around Recommendation Systems & Usage Modeling. Key projects include:
  • Recommendation System products integrated into the Bloomberg Terminal leveraging Matrix Factorization techniques
  • Data pipeline using Spark & MapReduce to expose aggregated & anonymized data for advanced analytics and ML models
  • Workflow recommendation on the Terminal after reading news stories
  • Entity2Vec for financial entities such as Companies, People, Industries, etc.

Financial Software Developer - Search & Discoverability

Feb 2011Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Worked as a full-stack developer in the Bloomberg Search Engine Team. Key projects include:
  • Context-sensitive spell correction pipeline for the Search engine
  • Built & maintained Search Engine backend using Apache SOLR
  • Worked on 'Related Searches', Entity Discovery modules & query reformulation

Biogen idec

Summer Intern

May 2010Aug 2010 · 3 mos

  • Developed a Machine Learning tool to detect important regions in novel molecules curated by scientists

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

MS — Computational Biology

Jan 2009Jan 2011

RV College Of Engineering

B.E. — Biotechnology

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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