Kalpana Banerjee's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Kalpana Banerjee has been working in product management and software engineering for 5 years. She has worked with different software companies including Facebook, Audi, Amazon, and Ask. Kalpana has experience with building products from requirements analysis to successful deployment. She has also filed 3 patents for new technology that she built. Kalpana Banerjee is also a business expert and has led various innovation projects for various software companies.

🎓 Education

Kalpana Banerjee has a B.Tech from Anna University. After doing her B.Tech, she worked as an Electronics Engineer at a company from 2000 to2002. She then went on to get her M.S from Rutgers University, where she did computer science. Kalpana Banerjee has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

WORK EXPERIENCEDirector of Product Management at Facebook/InstagramStated previously that Kalpana Banerjee is currently a Director of Product Management at Facebook at Instagram in Greater New York City Area. Sr. Director, Product Management at Audible, Inc. (Amazon subsidiary) from November 2013 to August 2019 (5 years 10 months) in Newark, NJ. At Audible I lead the product team responsible for building great customer experiences geared towards customer retention and engagement on our mobile Apps on iOS, Android, Windows and for Audible's customer growth and acquisition strategy on Alexa, Kindle, Amazon.com and Amazon apps. Manager, Software Engineering at Ask.com from 2007 to 2008 (1 year). Technology lead and manager of a team of software engineers responsible for projects involving web search, including Signals for ranking, localized search and contextual search. Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer at Ask.com from 2002 to 2007 (5 years). Worked on end to end product development cycle from requirements analysis, design, implementation and successful deployment of several projects on various components of the search engine such as duplicate elimination, freshness, internationalization. Software Consultant at Fourth Technologies Inc from 1998 to 2000 (2 years). C++/Internet development consultant for Deutsche Financial services eCommerce solutions. Senior Software Engineer at IBM from 1996 to 1998 (2 years). Worked on system software projects including Data Link file system, Availability and Operations Manager across global teams at IBM India, IBM Almaden (USA) and IBM Boeblingen (Germany). Director, Search Program at Rediff.com from February 2011 to May 2013 (2 years 4 months). Head of Rediff’s search team. Responsible for the search product strategy aligned towards business growth. Led innovative product development in news, eCommerce and data journalism for both desktop and mobile devices. Filed 3 US patents for new technology built.Led, from product conception to deployment of http://realtime.rediff.com (instant news search engine covering news from over 30,000 sites), http://localnews.rediff.com (an intuitive map based Indian local news discovery product), http://realtime.rediff.com/images?src=home_images (image search engine based on images in news).Actively enhanced search and discovery including retrieval and recommendation systems for eCommerce shopping and books.Spearheaded data journalism projects using historic trend data analysis and data patterns for elections - Rediff Sentimeter. Senior Product Manager at Ask.com from January 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 7 months). Led the product initiative for Ask.com's Answers from web strategy - to extract, retrieval, match and rank answers for question queries resulting in a 100% increase in question/answer coverage.Product Manager for Related searches and various search technology offerings at ask.com.