Google Executive. Fortune 100 Board member. Angel Investor.
San Francisco Bay Area
Director of Product and Engineering, Google Now
June 2013 to Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Product Manager, Google Search
May 2010 to May 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Google/YouTube
Product Manager
July 2008 to April 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
Akamai Technologies
Architect
1999 to 2008
Oracle
Software Engineer Intern
1998 to 1998
What company does Aparna C. work for?
Aparna C. works for Google
What is Aparna C.'s role at Google?
Aparna C. is Director of Product and Engineering, Google Now
What industry does Aparna C. work in?
Aparna C. works in the Internet industry.
Who are Aparna C.'s colleagues?
Aparna C.'s colleagues are Sami Ebadi, Cunhao Gao, Andrée Monette, Brad Farr, Andi Shen, Adrianna Marini, Akhilesh Shirbhate, Viktor Farkas, Catalina Naranjo-Bock, and Jörg Doku
📖 Summary
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
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
3 year(s), 5 month(s)
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