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Responsible for Zero to 1 for AI journey for Slickdeals.

Built a team for talented engineers from Zero.

Built a personalization technology stack from the ground up, delivering a xx% revenue lift.

Designed and implemented a search stack from scratch, including semantic search, improving KPI by x%.

Worked closely with CTO, CEO, and CBO to shape product and business strategies in 2024 and 2025.

Mentored / Coached 700+ software professionals, so far.

1:1 coaching, mentoring and advising software professional on career growth and transition

Specialities

• Mentoring and advising first-time manager

• Career transition

• Pivoting towards ML / AI from (Frontend and Backend)

• Transition to management role from individual contributor

• Transition to Software development from (QA / Dev-ops)

• Transition to Product Management from (Program management and Engineering)

• Career growth for senior engineers

Helping startup founder in India and US ecosystem.

Specialities

• Mentoring and advising

• Technical due diligence (Architecture, ML, AI, Big data)

• GTM and Business strategy

• Customer metrics and Business KPI

As Fractional CTO,

• CTO-as-a-service

• Technical and domain consulting in AI/ML/Search space to Investment and Consulting firm. (short-term basis)

• Helping non-technical startup founder

• Engineering owner of Adobe Stock Search (https://stock.adobe.com/)

• I and my team breathe and live tech. My team works on Big Data Technologies ( like Spark / Hadoop, Storm, HBase) and AI / ML (Ranking, Relevance, Vision Search, NLP).

• I am always looking for smart, entrepreneurial engineers to solve problems using ML/AI first thinking.

Some work that my team since I joined.

• https://medium.com/adobetech/taking-image-search-to-the-next-level-ai-powered-object-specific-search-in-adobe-stock-353a8d51925c

• https://medium.com/adobetech/evaluating-addressing-position-bias-in-adobe-stock-search-9807b11ee268

Managing team 10-25 engineers across different skillsets (Fullstack, Big data, Machine learning, Mobile App development, Web Development)

• Engineering owner of Mobile Search App / SDK (Mar 2017 - Aug 2018)

• Engineering owner of Trending Search (Jan 2016 - Aug 2018)

• Engineering owner of Y! Search Ranking and slotting (March 2016 - June 2017)

• Engineering owner of Partner Portals ( https://att.yahoo.com/ , https://verizon.yahoo.com/,) (July 2015 - Dec 2015)

• Engineering owner of https://answers.yahoo.com/ (April 2015 - Dec 2015)

• Engineering owner of https://shopping.yahoo.com/ (April 2014 - Dec 2015)