Senior Software Engineer at Google specializing in search ranking, LLMs, and large-scale information retrieval. M.Tech from IIT Bombay, B.Tech from Anna University. Previously at Yahoo! Research and Alcatel Lucent Labs.

Experience

Google Inc

  • [Ongoing] Building chat and voice agent for 100K+ 3P advertisers to improve lead nurturing and qualification with custom tools using Gemini, Cloud ADK, Vertex AI (Search grounding), and GTP.

  • Built Search Home page recommendation for Play Store - generated high-quality recommendable queries using Google PaLM 340B model with safety evaluation.

  • Redesigned Play Store suggest (autocomplete) indexing and serving: 200M+ query indices, 20ms p99 latency, personalization model with user signals at 80K QPS (6B+ queries/day).

  • Founding engineer of Android System Intelligence team. Led design and implementation of Universal Search - a new search surface in Pixel Launcher enabling on-device search across installed apps, contacts, settings, screenshots, and files. Designed ranking and indexing architecture balancing low latency, relevance, and privacy. Led the next app-predictions feature using DNN inference on-device. These launches rolled out to 8M+ pixel devices.

  • Built Deep Neural retrieval system with 300M+ question embeddings, serving 10% of web-search with low latency; powers "People also ask" feature enhancing user engagement.

  • Launched several query understanding improvements (synonyms, salient-terms) in web-search ranking with significant IS@5 (Information-Satisfaction) gains.

Yahoo! Research Lab

  • Keyword extraction from images using unsupervised ML; progressed to IIT Bombay collaboration with research grant support.

Publications

Awards

  • Received 20+ Google awards (Peer and Spot bonus) for critical product launches and sharing expertise with team.

  • Won 20+ algorithmic competitive programming contests at national level.

  • Awarded Search Professional of the Year by BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group.

  • Program and Review Committee member for ACL ARR, EMNLP; Journal reviewer for IEEE TNNLS, Expert Systems with Applications.

  • Hired 100+ and mentored 10+ engineers at Google.

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