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Varun Kacholia

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of two innovative AI companies.
  • Led ranking algorithms at Facebook impacting millions.
  • Developed XML storage solutions published in IEEE.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a strong focus on machine learning and ranking systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningDistributed SystemsRankingSearch AlgorithmsDatabase Management

Other Skills

RecommendationsData AnalysisXML

About

Specialties: Ranking & Recommendations, Machine learning, Distributed & scalable systems, Information retrieval.

Experience

21 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Viven

Co-Founder & CTO

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Viven is building Digital Twins for the enterprise — and eventually, for everyone.
  • We’re creating intelligent counterparts that preserve knowledge, accelerate decisions, and scale human potential.
  • We’re hiring exceptional engineers, researchers, and builders who want to shape the next frontier of AI and agentic systems.

Eightfold.ai

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2016Present · 9 yrs 10 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • Eightfold is building a global data driven employment platform that spans enterprise, governments & consumers. Our platform is currently used by the largest employers across 100+ countries and also public sector governments.
  • In 2020, Eightfold won the U.S. Department of Labor Veterans’ Challenge to match 10 million U.S. military veterans with private-sector employment. Eightfold has been recognized as Top-25 AI companies to watch. Eightfold has received more than $390M in investment from Softbank, General Catalyst, Capital One Ventures, and other leading investors.
  • Come join us if you are excited about building intuitive powerful products, work on large distributed systems, and cutting edge AI deep models. We are looking for leaders who love executing fast, come up innovative solutions to challenging problems and are eager to taking ownership.
Distributed SystemsMachine LearningRankingRecommendations

Facebook

Engineering Director, News Feed

Jun 2011Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Menlo Park, CA

  • I lead the team responsible for ranking of all News Feed and recommendations across Facebook. I also helped build various parts of infrastructure, algorithms and products in News Feed over several years.
  • Ranking updates from the team - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/category/news-feed-fyi/
RankingRecommendations

Google inc.

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2005Jun 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • I lead the team responsible for search on YouTube and video search on Google.com. We built infrastructure to serve billions of queries/day and made ranking algorithm improvements across these 2 products. I also helped with product planning, roadmap & strategy for video search.
RankingSearch Algorithms

University of waterloo

Research Assistant

May 2003Jul 2003 · 2 mos

  • Worked with Prof M. Tamer Ozsu to develop a compact storage scheme for XML.
  • Implemented the entire storage and query processing system. Our prototype outperformed many available XML databases including X HiveDB 4.0.
  • Results were publised in IEEE International Conference on Data Engg. (ICDE) 2004.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master's degree — Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B. Tech — Computer Science

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