Experienced Executive at Google, currently leading key efforts in Mobile and Android.
Product and Engineering executive with 15+ years of success in the Internet sector across product management, people management, strategy and engineering leadership. Expertise in search, information discovery and consumer products. Love building and leading data-driven products and teams from scratch.
Specialties: Consumer Internet, Business Strategy, Product Management, Design, Network businesses, Big Data, Public speaking, Leading cross-functional teams, Getting things done.
Director of Product and Engineering, Google Now @ Lead a set of efforts at Google to make your phone contextual, predictive, and much more useful. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Product Manager, Google Search @ As Product Leader in Search, led 3 big areas (local, multimedia and personal).
* Revamped Personal Search as a conversational assistant that answers questions about your own world.
* Improved Local Search on Google by adding structured data, new user experience and better ranking.
* Shipped 10+ features that impact millions of users and hundreds of millions of searches
* Seasoned presenter -- spoke at conferences, press interviews, part of Google executive speaker bureau
* Managed teams of product managers and led teams with 100+ engineers, BD, ops and designers. From May 2010 to May 2013 (3 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Manager @ Led team of 30 research scientists/engineers to productize research into user-facing features in YouTube and Google.
* Went from 0 launches to 15+ launches in 1 year
* Killed low-impact low-return projects, turned around team to few big bets on monetization and search
* Impact: $XXM/year in YouTube revenue, hundred of thousands/day usage impact on video discovery
* Launched 20+ labs features, including a few acclaimed in WSJ, BBC, and US News
* Awarded patents on product features to improve ads targeting and video classification From July 2008 to April 2010 (1 year 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaArchitect @ * Consultant, Corporate Development
-- Formulated Akamai’s mobile investment thesis, analyzed industry landscape, identified startups, did due diligence
* Software Architect
-- Architected Analytics platform to provide insights to Akamai customers on site performance
-- Led cross-functional project with teams in U.S and India to integrate acquisition of startup into the product
* Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead
-- Designed and built software that measures service-level-agreement compliance, avoiding potential third-party solutions (estimated cumulative savings of $1M)
-- Led team building software running on 3000+ servers across the world, used for sales for Fortune 500 clients From 1999 to 2008 (9 years) Software Engineer Intern @ From 1998 to 1998 (less than a year)
M.S, Management & Eng @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2006 to 2008 M.S, Computer Science @ University of Texas Austin From August 1997 to 1999 B.Tech, Computer Science @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras From 1993 to 1997 St. Anthony's High School Aparna C. is skilled in: Product Management, People Management, Consumer Internet, Search, Product Design, Public Speaking, Business Strategy